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Category: Poets

Poets appearing at the Tasmanian Poetry Festival.

Poetry Writing Workshops

Posted on: September 12, 2025 Last updated on: September 12, 2025 Written by: Lisa Wright Categorized in: Festival 2025, Guest Poets 2025, Poets, Program TPF25, Workshops 2025
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…
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Phone-a-Poem

Posted on: September 12, 2025 Last updated on: September 12, 2025 Written by: Lisa Wright Categorized in: Festival 2025, Guest Poets 2025, Poets
📞 Phone-a-Poem at TPF 2025 We’re thrilled to announce that Phone-a-Poem will be featured as part of the Tasmanian Poetry Festival 2025, and will be on display at QVMAG Museum in the lead-up to the festival. Phone-a-Poem is…
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Astropoetrica!

Posted on: September 12, 2025 Last updated on: September 13, 2025 Written by: Lisa Wright Categorized in: Festival 2025, Guest Poets 2025, Poets
 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…
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Liz Winfield Poet

Liz Winfield

Posted on: September 7, 2025 Last updated on: September 8, 2025 Written by: Lisa Wright Categorized in: Festival 2025, Guest Poets 2025, Poets
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,…
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Les Wicks Poet

Les Wicks

Posted on: September 7, 2025 Last updated on: September 7, 2025 Written by: Lisa Wright Categorized in: Festival 2025, Guest Poets 2025, Poets
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…
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Kim Neilsen Creeley Poet

Kim Nielsen-Creeley

Posted on: September 7, 2025 Last updated on: September 7, 2025 Written by: Lisa Wright Categorized in: Festival 2025, Guest Poets 2025, Poets
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…
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Christopher “Kit” Kelen

Posted on: September 7, 2025 Last updated on: September 7, 2025 Written by: Lisa Wright Categorized in: Festival 2025, Guest Poets 2025, Poets
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…
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Alex McKeown

Posted on: September 7, 2025 Last updated on: September 7, 2025 Written by: Lisa Wright Categorized in: Festival 2025, Guest Poets 2025, Poets
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…
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Erin Coull

Erin Coull

Posted on: September 7, 2025 Last updated on: September 7, 2025 Written by: Lisa Wright Categorized in: Festival 2025, Guest Poets 2025, Poets
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…
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Rob van der Elst

Rob van der Elst

Posted on: September 8, 2024 Last updated on: September 29, 2024 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2024, Guest Poets TPF24, Music TPF24, Poets
Rob Van Der Elst was born in the Netherlands and migrated to Australia as a child. He was ‘thrown in at the deep end’, expected to learn English without formal instruction. This…
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Steve Brien

Posted on: September 8, 2024 Last updated on: September 29, 2024 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2024, Guest Poets TPF24, Music TPF24, Poets
Steve Brien Jazz guitarist Steve Brien grew up in Sydney, Australia. Getting involved with jazz groups in the late 70s, he soon established himself on the scene playing with local jazz musicians…
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Thomas Forest Bailey

Thomas Forest Bailey

Posted on: September 8, 2024 Last updated on: September 29, 2024 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2024, Guest Poets TPF24, Poets
Thomas Forest Bailey is a performance poet; he has twice won the Deloraine Poetry Slam and has been Tasmanian Poetry Slam Champion. Thomas placed third in the Australian Poetry Slam National final…
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Bruce Penn

Bruce Penn

Posted on: September 8, 2024 Last updated on: September 29, 2024 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2024, Guest Poets TPF24, Poets
I am a poet, an artist, a performer and an occasional percussionist. I write short-winded, sharp, accessible poems,and Long-winded, blunt, long-and-winding poems that create journeys that may lose the listener briefly, but…
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Sarah Lock

Sarah Lock

Posted on: September 8, 2024 Last updated on: September 29, 2024 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2024, Guest Poets TPF24, Poets
Strong in the belief that language and communication are among humanity’s most valuable tools, Sarah endeavors to provoke thought and promote empowerment in all of her work. Her performances, written works and…
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Marilyn Arnold poet

Marilyn Arnold

Posted on: September 8, 2024 Last updated on: September 13, 2024 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2024, Guest Poets TPF24, Poets
Marilyn Arnold … (coming) Marilyn will be hosting the Open Mic session “Landscapes of Lutruwita-Tasmania” on Saturday morning (12th). You can catch Marilyn performing herself, as a guest poet, on Sunday morning…
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Leanne Boschman poet

Leanne Boschman

Posted on: September 8, 2024 Last updated on: September 19, 2024 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2024, Guest Poets TPF24, Poets
Leanne Boschman is a Vancouver Island-based writer living and working on the traditional territories of the Cowichan Tribes and Malahat Nation. She began to love poetry during her first year on the…
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