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  1. 2006 Tasmanian Poetry Festival
    Launceston, Tasmania
    Please email for more information.

    Friday, October 13

    5.30 pm Meet this year’s guest poets over nibblies at the Tamar Yacht Club before we hear some …

    WORDS ON WATER $5
    The 2006 Tasmanian Poetry Festival kicks off on board the Tamar Odyssey as twilight settles over the Tamar River.  Featuring readings by some of our Guest Poets.  *Bookings Essential* See Contact Details

    8.00 FRIDAY NIGHT READINGS

    Tamar Yacht Club, Park Street, Launceston $5 / $3
    Guests are invited to adjourn for Readings by the Guest Poets of the 2003 Poetry Festival.  Featuring an Open Mike session for Launceston’s poets to share their work.

    Saturday, October 15

    1.30 pm LAUNCH PAD
    Fullers Bookshop, St John Street, Launceston FREE EVENT
    Gina Mercer launches Blood Universe by Australian Young Poet of the Year Esther Ottaway.

    CAFÉ VERSE Gold Coin Donation
    2 - 4pm
    Cafi Centro, St John Street (opp. Fullers Bookshop)

    Join us upstairs while we consume healthy quantities of verse from our Guest Poets, underscored by some excellent coffee in one of Launceston’s finest cafes.

    7.30 pm THE LAUNCESTON POETRY CUP

    Launceston Bowls Club, Seaport Drive, Launceston $10/$7

    Light Supper, Trivia, Giveaways

    7.30 LAUNCH PAD
    Festival Founder and eminent Poet Tim Thorne launches his latest chapbook Thorne’s Best Bitter; Liz Winfield launches her latest chapbook Catalogue of Love, published by Walleah Press

    8.00 Special Guest
    Visiting Poet Ignatius McGovern will warm up the audience for the Poetry Cup with his humourous Irish verse

    8.30 It’s on!  The seminal event of the Festival, now in its 20th year, the Launceston Poetry Cup throws open the challenge to any willing poet: if you can generate the loudest audience response in under a minute with your poem, the silverware is yours.  Open to everyone and anyone!  It’s loud, it’s contagious, it’s the most fun you’ll ever have in verse.

    Sunday October 16

    WORDS DY DESIGN

    The Design Centre of Tasmania, Tamar Street
    2.00 pm $5
    Guest Poets will read from their work with the work of artists and designers from Tasmania and around Australia as their backdrop. 

    Featuring the draw of the famous Poetry Festival Raffle.

    **Festival Passes Available: $20, Access All Events**

    See you there!

    Posted by  on  12/10/06  at  09:32 AM

  2. On this pattern with corners and bends
    And pieces following trends
    The Stapler makes it way
    Being pushed by my fingers into the day.

    http://worldofpoems.wordpress.com/

    Posted by poems  on  19/05/08  at  02:28 PM

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