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Category: Poets

Poets appearing at the Tasmanian Poetry Festival.

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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Moran Wiesel poet

Moran Wiesel

Posted on: September 8, 2024 Last updated on: September 19, 2024 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2024, Guest Poets TPF24, Poets
Moran Wiesel is a performance poet, storyteller, and eco-somatic therapist. Moran’s works explore our intimate entanglement with the earth’s soul, inviting audiences on a wonder-filled journey of profound connection. Their performances sparkle…
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Pam Schindler

Pam Schindler

Posted on: September 8, 2024 Last updated on: September 19, 2024 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2024, Guest Poets TPF24, Poets
Pam Schindler is a poet, bushwalker and former university reference librarian, living by the sea at Blackmans Bay, lutruwita-Tasmania, after 20 years in southeast Queensland. Anne Kellas has written that her poems…
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Robyn Rowland

Robyn Rowland

Posted on: September 8, 2024 Last updated on: September 19, 2024 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2024, Guest Poets TPF24, Poets
Poetry can animate everything, so that life itself breathes through the line. It can make us alive to something new or remembered. Poetry must connect, communicate, enliven, disturb and stir. From my…
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Ross Donlon poet

Ross Donlon

Posted on: September 8, 2024 Last updated on: September 29, 2024 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2024, Guest Poets TPF24, Poets
Ross Donlon is winner of two international poetry prizes and the Launceston Cup, of which he is very proud. Other awards include the Dorothy Hewett Flagship Fellowship. He has five books of…
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Esther Ottaway

Esther Ottaway

Posted on: January 1, 2023 Last updated on: September 15, 2023 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2023, Guest Poets TPF23, Poets
Esther is the winner of the 2022 Tim Thorne Prize for Poetry and People’s Choice Award in the Tasmanian Literary Awards. She also holds multiple national and international prizes and shortlistings, including…
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Helga Germy performing poetry

Helga Jermy

Posted on: January 1, 2023 Last updated on: September 15, 2023 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2023, Guest Poets TPF23, Poets
Helga is an English-Estonian poet, now living on lutruwita-Tasmania’s northwest coast. Although living in a small village close to farmland and beaches, she also regularly spends time in Melbourne, thus enjoying both…
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David Hallet

David Hallett

Posted on: January 1, 2023 Last updated on: September 15, 2023 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2023, Guest Poets TPF23, Poets
David has been writing and performing poetry since the 1970s. Winner of the 2019 Reciter of the Year award, twice winner of the Poetry Olympics at the Sydney Writers Festival, plus Woodford…
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Tug Dumbly

Tug Dumbly

Posted on: January 1, 2023 Last updated on: September 15, 2023 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2023, Guest Poets TPF23, Poets
Tug Dumbly is the pen and stage name of Geoff Forrester, a Nowra-born poet and performer who has lived in Sydney for decades. He has worked extensively in radio, venues and schools,…
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Kimberley K Williams

Kimberley K Williams

Posted on: January 1, 2023 Last updated on: September 15, 2023 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2023, Guest Poets TPF23, Poets
Kimberley is the author of three books: Still Lives (Life Before Man/Gazebo Books, 2022), Sometimes a Woman (Recent Work Press, 2021) and Finally, the Moon, (Stephen F Austin University Press, 2017). Still…
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