📣 Queensland Poetry Festival is emerging!
Dear poets and poetry lovers,
We’re excited to announce the revival of the Queensland Poetry Festival for 2022! Due to the recent wave of COVID cases, we’re moving our live dates for ‘Emerge’ to 3-5 June at the Judith Wright Centre in Brisbane.
We'll also have an amazing online program that will kick off on March 21st (International Poetry Day) and run up to the festival in June.
Want more online offerings before then? Keep scrolling to book in for workshops with our Poets in Digital Residence, and to view their latest online poetry readings.
Yours in poetry,
— The QP Team
📣 Queensland Poetry Festival - new date!
After a couple of years hiatus, the Queensland Poetry Festival is back in its live form in 2022. Held from 7-10 April at the Judith Wright Centre, the theme for 2022’s festival will be ‘Emerge’ – speaking not only to the sense of ‘coming through’ the significant challenges of the last few years, but also to the way poetry emerges into the world, and to poets taking those first (tentative, terrifying, courageous) steps into the poetry community.
The full program will be released early in the new year. We look forward to welcoming you.
📣 Workshops with our Poets in Digital Residence
Poetry for the stage! with Laniyuk
For intermediate poets who want to perform or strengthen their performance skills. Bring a poem you’re working on to edit and develop. During this workshop, we’ll look at the editing process, focusing on rhythm and emotional expression, share tips for memorising for a more dynamic performance and will finish with time for questions and a conversation around where to perform and how to develop your career.
HOW TO WRITE A POEM with Eileen Myles
I figure the best thing I can offer is a how to class. I will start with a very rudimentary explanation of what a poem is, what language is, why we cling to this simple form, who it’s for, some good examples of poems that to my mind get right to it, what do I mean by it and how we can write one or two right now. And by that I do mean everyone will write two, yes two poems in this very brief class.
BOOK IN NOW for Sunday, February 27 at 11am AEST.
📣 Rewatch our Poet in Residence readings
Listen to four stunning poems read by LANIYUK, one of our Arts Queensland Poets in Digital Residence. Laniyuk is a Larrakia, Kungarakan, Gurindji, and French writer and performer of poetry and short memoir. She is currently completing her first collection of work to be published through Magabala Books.
Watch the video on our YouTube.
Watch an intimate, engaging reading by Andy Jackson, one of our Arts Queensland Poets in Digital Residence. Andy Jackson is a poet, essayist and creative writing teacher. He has been shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, the John Bray Poetry Award and the Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry. His latest poetry collection is Human Looking (Giramondo, 2021).
Watch the video on our YouTube.
📣 Volta poetry is back!
âš¡VOLTA is co-presented monthly by Queensland Poetry and Brisbane Square Library, bringing you electric poetry, spoken word, and the unexpected. Free, but BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL.
VOLTA MARCH 2022 features Svetlana Sterlin, Chloe Louise Mills and Beata Mazur, and will be held in-person at the Brisbane Square Library on Friday 4 March at 6pm.
Help poetry grow!
Want to see poetry grow and flourish? Want more spoken word on the stage and creativity on the page?
Make a tax-deductable donation to Queensland Poetry today at qldpoetry.raisely.com
Your donation will help grow poetry in Queensland and beyond!
Not Quite Right for Us podcast
The Not Quite Right For Us podcast aims to showcases diverse and under-represented writers.
Have a listen to this stellar podcast produced by author, sound artist and radio journalist Craig Garrett.
📣 Poetry opportunities
Cordite - No Theme 11: 13 February deadline
Baby Teeth Journal Blackout Poetry Competition: 1 March deadline
Griffith Review 76: 15 February deadline
The Five Islands Press Prize: 15 July deadline
Overland Journal: Open for poetry submissions.
#EnbyLife Journal: Submissions open to non-binary and gender diverse creatives.
📣 Upcoming Qld events
Poets UpLate at Wynnum Library: February 17
Ruckus Slam: February 23
Paint The Town - 2021 Queensland Regional Art Awards:
LAUNCH - 25 February.
EXHIBITION - 18 February - 23 April.
HOW TO WRITE A POEM with Eileen Myles: February 27
VOLTA MARCH featuring Svetlana Sterlin, Chloe Louise Mills and Beata Mazur: March 4
Poetry for the stage! with Laniyuk: March 8
Poets UpLate at Wynnum Library: March 17
Queensland Poetry Festival: 3-5 June