TASMANIAN POETRY FESTIVAL, 2006
Some emailed notes from the festival’s Cameron Hindrum:
Firstly and most IMPORTANTLY, the DATE for this year’s Festival is October 13-15. Please have this tattooed somewhere prominently upon your person so that you DO NOT FORGET them and MISS THE FESTIVAL. (Or failing that, if you’re scared of needles, just write it in a diary or something.)
This year we will be joined by…
- Geoff Page (ACT)
- Peter Minter (NSW)
- Sam Wagan Watson (Qld)
- Kaye Aldenhoven (NT)
- Gina Mercer (Tas)
- Esther Ottaway (Tas)
- Jim Everett (Tas)
… and our international guest this year, who will read at the Festival conduct a workshop in Launceston as part of her month-long residency here in October, will be
… Jacqueline Turner (Canada). (Profound thanks to the Tas Writers Centre and the University of Prince Edward Island in Canada for making this residency possible. A Tasmanian writer will be selected to undertake a residency in Canada–on Prince Edward Island–next year).