📣 Introducing our new team members

We're extremely proud to announce two new Queensland Poetry team members! Please welcome Shane Strange as our Artistic Director and Busty Beatz as Guest Curator.

Together, these two talented creatives will plan and launch our next Queensland Poetry Festival in April 2022!

Keep an eye on our socials and upcoming e-newsletters for more info about our 2022 Queensland Poetry Festival.


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Shane Strange 

  • Artistic Director 

Shane Strange’s writing has appeared in various print and online journals in Australia and internationally. He is the author of two chapbooks, Notes to the Reader and Dark Corner. His first collection of poetry All Suspicions Have Been Confirmed was released 2020. He is the founder and publisher at Recent Work Press and was festival director of Canberra’s Poetry on the Move poetry festival (2018-2020). 


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Busty Beatz 

  • Guest Curator 

A killer Music Director, Sound Artist, Writer, Creative Producer, Community Engaged Artist and Multi-disciplinary Performance Maker, Busty Beatz (she/her) has been creating fearless art to activate, pollinate and liberate for over 25 years. Of Xhosa heritage and living on the unceded territories of the Yuggera People, she is Co-creator, MD and Queen Bee of the international smash hit Hot Brown Honey winning the UK's Total Theatre Award for Innovation, Experimentation and Playing with Form, Two Green Rooms and a Helpmann. Adhering to a manifesto of creative, collective power through collaboration, Busty Beatz creates global sonic experiences intersecting disciplines, politics, activism and soundlines. 


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