Poetry Reading Salon
Saturday 12 October: 3.00pm – 5.00pm
Poetry Reading Salon hosted by Brett Dionysius
Five poets reading for 15 – 20 minutes each and then a Q and A session.
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Author BIO’s
B.R. Dionysius was founding Director of the Queensland Poetry Festival. He has published five collections of poetry, two chapbooks, an artist’s book and a verse novel. His ninth collection, ‘Critical State’ was published in September 2022. He was short-listed in the 2017 Montreal International Poetry Prize, teaches English & Literature, lives in Brisbane and in his spare time watches birds. In 2023 he was awarded a Queensland Writers’ Fellowship from Arts Queensland and the Queensland Writers’ Centre. His tenth poetry collection, “The Eromanga Sea” and his eleventh collection, “Extinction Sonnets” are forthcoming in 2025.
Jane Frank is an award-winning Brisbane poet, editor and academic. Her debut poetry collection Ghosts Struggle to Swim was published by Calanthe Press in May 2023, and she is the author of two previous chapbooks. Her work regularly appears in journals and anthologies in both Australia and internationally— most recently in The Memory Palace (The Ekphrastic Review, Canada, 2024). She likes to run writing workshops, has appeared in a number of poetry podcasts here and in the UK, is Reviews Editor for StylusLit Literary Journal and teaches communication and creative industries at the University of the Sunshine Coast’s Moreton Bay campus.
Vanessa Page is a Queensland poet who lives and works in Brisbane. She has published five collections of poetry including ‘Confessional Box’ (Walleah Press) which was the winner of the 2013 Anne Elder Award. Her latest collection is ‘Botanical Skin’ (Calanthe Press) which was launched in 2021. A new collection is forthcoming with Calanthe Press later in 2024.
Jarad Bruinstroop’s debut poetry collection, Reliefs (UQP, 2023) won the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. He is the recipient of the Val Vallis Award and the Fryer Library Creative Writing Fellowship. His work has appeared in The Best of Australian Poems, Meanjin, Overland, HEAT, Island, Westerly and elsewhere. He holds a PhD in Creative Writing from QUT where he now teaches.
Damen O’Brien is a multi-award-winning poet. His prizes include The Moth Poetry Prize, the Newcastle Poetry Prize and the Peter Porter Poetry Prize. His poems have been published in seven countries, nominated for a Pushcart Prize and highly commended in the Forward Prizes for poetry. Damen’s latest book is Walking the Boundary, available through Pitt Street Poetry.