TASMANIAN POETRY FESTIVAL

For up-to-date information, please 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 2002]. Since then, Cameron Hindrum has been the festival’s director.

This year's festival ran from Friday 5th to Sunday 7th October 2012, with guests Dael Allison, Omar Musa, Richard Tipping, Chris Mansell, Mandy Beaumont, Candy Royalle, Roberta Lowing, Matt Hetherington, Janet Jackson ['Jackson') and Alex Skovron.

References to previous Tasmanian Poetry Festivals - culled mainly from back issues of famous reporter - can be found below: