Don’t miss the poetry festival

Cameron Hindrum Director Tasmanian Poetry Festival

VERY warm Poetic greetings; For your perusal and interest, please find attached the program for the 2008 Tasmanian Poetry Festival. You are free to disperse this treasured document among your acquaintances and colleagues as you see fit, and invite them to contact me should they have any queries. You will notice some changes to previous years, especially with a couple of venues, and the program has expanded slightly to incorporate a Poets Breakfast on Sunday morning.

Very best wishes, take care and keep the pen moving, and I look forward to welcoming you to the Festival …

The program:

Thursday October 2 7.30pm **FREE EVENT**
Re(a)d: Performed by Festival Guest Janet Galbraith
Queechy High School Theatre Space, Penquite Road, Norwood

FRIDAY OCTOBER 3
5.30 Join Festival Guest Poets for drinks at Mud Bar, Launceston Seaport
6.30 WORDS ON WATER The official launch of the 2008 Tasmanian Poetry Festival, held on board the Tamar Odyssey as twilight settles over the Tamar River. Featuring readings by some of our Guest Poets.
$5 **BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL**

8.00 FRIDAY NIGHT READINGS featuring Nightwriting
Guests are invited to return to Mud Bar for Readings by the Guest Poets of the 2008 Poetry Festival, including Janet Galbraith, Ken Bolton, Cath Kenneally, Kristen Lang, David Stavanger, Mala Anthony and the Scribesisterspeaking.
//This event includes an Open Mike session for poets to share their work. Five minute limit, register on the night.//

SATURDAY OCTBER 4 Brisbane St Mall 11 am
Jam the Mall! A free concert featuring three of Australia’s best spoken-word performance poets: Ghostboy, Scribesisterspeaking and CuzCo (Wire MC and Choo Choo). Poetry live, fast, gutsy and loud: absolutely not to be missed! Afterwards (afterwords?) chill out at…

Café Readings: 2 pm Café Fresh, Charles Street, Launceston Enjoy a fabulous coffee with a poetry chaser: Poetry provided by our Festival guest poets for 2008.

7.30 pm Invermay Bowls Club, Forster Street, Invermay
Wire MC will warm the crowd up before we get into the…
8.30 pm
LAUNCESTON POETRY CUP The seminal event of the Festival, now in its 23rd 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.
$10/$7

SUNDAY OCTOBER 5 9.30 am K&H Café, 106 George Street, Launceston
Join us over breakfast as we welcome three touring poets from Queensland, and hear their work: Ross Clark, Helen Avery, Nathan Shepherdson.

1 pm REVERENCE: A celebration of Poetry, Historic Church,
99 Elphin Road $5

Wind down with us as we celebrate poetry in the lovely embrace of this former place of worship. Hear from each of the Festival’s guest poets, enjoy a glass of wine, win something in the fabulous Festival raffle and be farewelled until next year when we gather together to do it all again!