OUR FEATURED POETS DISCUSS HUMOUR IN POETRY, IF THEY USE IT HOW AND WHY – SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT TPF 25 Ever wonder where poems come from? Poe-trees. What did one poem say…
Category: Guest Poets 2025
Guest Poets at the Tasmanian Poetry Festival 2025
Astropoetrica Live
List of Poems and Creative Commons Music In Relative Order Please note that as this he first iteration of our creative project that the order of the poetry below may have changed,…
Friday Night *41st* Festival! Launch, Tim Thorne Poetry Prize Feature , readings and poet Q&A
🎉 Join Us for the Opening of the Tasmanian Poetry Festival! 🎉Now entering its fifth decade! Come and celebrate with hosts Young Dawkins and festival patron Cameron Hindrum as we kick off…
Poetry Writing Workshops
Writing an Interior Monologue.Kim Nielsen-Creeley In this workshop Kim Nielsen-Creeley will lead a group of up to 14 participants in sharing and reading examples of poetry developed through an interior monologue, a…
Astropoetrica!
Astropoetica — Poetry Under the Stars Featuring Cameron Hindrum. Experience a night where poetry, music, and the cosmos collide at Launceston Planetarium. Astropoetica, another lead-in event to the Tasmanian Poetry Festival, blends centuries…
Liz Winfield
Liz Winfield is a Tasmanian poet living in Hobart’s Northern suburbs. Her poetry collections are Too Much Happens, Cornford Press, 2003 (assisted by an Arts Tasmania grant in 2000); Catalogue of Love,…
Les Wicks
Les has performed across the globe, with work published or broadcast in 39 countries, 17 languages, and over 500 outlets. Author of 15 poetry collections, including Time Taken – New & Selected…
Kim Nielsen-Creeley
Born in Queenstown, the copper heartland of Lutruwita/Tasmania, Kim’s poetry is rooted in place—forests, rivers, rail lines and industrial scars. Her work explores the layered intersections of land, memory, and language, shaped…
Christopher “Kit” Kelen
Christopher (Kit) Kelen is a poet and painter, resident on Worimi lands, in the Myall Lakes of NSW, Australia. Published widely since the seventies, he has more than a dozen full length…
Alex McKeown
Alex McKeown is a Tasmanian poet, translator, playwright and software engineer. His work has appeared in Island, Southerly, Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite and The Canberra Times. His chapbook of translations from the…
Erin Coull
Erin is a writer and student based in nipaluna, lutruwita. She is studying a Bachelor in Social and Environmental Economics, English and Writing at the University of Tasmania, while helping to run…