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For up-to-date information, visit the
Tasmanian Poetry Festival's website.
The Tasmanian Poetry
Festival, an annual event held in Launceston each October,
was founded and for seventeen years directed by Tim
Thorne [from 1985 to 2001]. For the past few years, Cameron
Hindrum has been the festivals director.
This year's festival
will run from Friday 7th to Sunday 9th October 2011, with guests
Andrew Burke, Martin Harrison, Andy Jackson, Ian Johnston, Miles
Merrill, Graham Nunn, Sandra Thibodeaux, Petra White and Les Wicks.
References to previous Tasmanian
Poetry Festivals - culled mainly from back issues of famous
reporter - can be found below: