The 2025 Tasmanian Poetry Festival kicked off Friday evening, October 10, 2025, at Sporties Bar in Launceston. Young Dawkins reflected on serving as one of three judges for the 2025 Tim Thorne Poetry Prize. American-born …
Valerie Tinmouth and the 2024 Launceston Poetry Cup winning poem
The TPF 2024 kicks off its first pre-festival event with a book launch by Koraly Dimitriadis – a Melbourne poet, performance artist, film maker and short story writer. Join us …
Liz Lefroy and Jonty Watt – Launceston, November 16th 2023. Visiting UK poet Liz Lefroy Liz’s opening poems of the evening involved “that very British sport of queuing,” the …
Tony Rayner and Carol Easton at the 2022 Tasmanian Poetry Festival last weekend. Only attended a couple of events, but they were terrific—lovely to see the festival come roaring back …
Noting from the festival’s facebook page … the 2022 festival is now planned for September in several venues over two weekends, with some events on the weekend of the 17th …
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 …