2009 Touring Poets Announced
Congratulations to poets Kirstin Hannaford, Rob Morris, and Zenobia Frost, who will be touring to Sydney, Melbourne, and Launceston as part of the QPF/QWC Queensland Poets Touring Program this month. The tour is sure to be a great week of reading, bookselling, and connecting with new audiences. The tour will run from Sunday 27 September – Sunday 4 October.
Tour Dates and Appearances
Sunday 27 September |
Brett Whitely Readings |
Sydney |
Monday 28 September |
Passionate Tongues |
Melbourne |
Tuesday 29 September |
Spinning Room |
Melbourne |
Friday 2 October |
Tasmanian Poetry Festival |
Launceston |
Saturday 3 October |
Launceston Poetry Cup |
Launceston |
Sunday 4 October |
Poets Breakfast |
Launceston |
Kristin Hannaford is the author of two collections of poetry, ‘Inhale’ in Swelter (IP 2003) and Fragile Context (Post Pressed, 2007). Her poems, short stories and reviews have been published in many Australian journals and she has received awards for her new media poetry - including the Leichhardt New Media poetry Prize and the Newcastle New Media prize. Kristin loves sharing her poetry and has performed at the Queensland Poetry Festival and Brisbane Writers’ Festival. She works as a secondary school teacher and lives in Yeppoon, Central Queensland.
Rob Morris is a Brisbane writer with a strong interest in poetry. An experienced performer, he has published, six collections of poetry. He co-edits, and largely finances, small packages, a pocket-sized poetry magazine and has written also on popular music and culture. His work has been published widely and he has been an invited guest at The Queensland Poetry Festival: spoken in one strange word, the 2008 Woodford Folk Festival, The Riverbend Books Readings, Readings at The Republic (Tasmania) and Speedpoets to name a few. His latest collection So Much Weather was released through Small Change Press in 2007. He is currently writing a book of humorous poems for children, and a prose novel entitled Letters for Joe.
Zenobia Frost is a poetic adventurer, hat fetishist, and protector of apostrophes who (when she remembers to) coordinates the seriously frivolous Ruby Fizz Society, which promotes local performance art and encourages cross-discipline creativity. Her poems have appeared in Going Down Swinging, Small Packages, Stylus, Mascara and Voiceworks, and her first collection, The Voyage, was published by SweetWater Press in May of this year. She hopes to one day make the perfect cup of tea.
The poets involved in the successful 2008 tour were Ross Clark, Helen Avery, and Nathan Sheperdson.
The Queensland Poets Touring Program is a joint initiative between QWC and Queensland Poetry Festival (QPF), which is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.