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 poet Young Dawkins was a central figure in the New Hampshire beat revival movement, where he helped found the Jazzmouth Poetry Festival, before moving to…
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Valerie Tinmouth: ‘Oh god, now I’ve forgotten it…’ (Launceston Poetry Cup 2024)
Valerie Tinmouth and the 2024 Launceston Poetry Cup winning poem
Koraly Dimitriadis — book launch, Launceston 29th February 2024
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 upstairs at 6 pm on the 29th February at the Plough Inn (lift available) 170 Brisbane St., Launceston to hear this wonderful and multi-talented woman….
Liz Lefroy and Jonty Watt, a Tasmanian Poetry Festival event – 16th Nov 2023
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 first of which – “In the Queue in the Waitrose Cafe, I Meet My Love” – can be read online at Liz’s website, at Liz…
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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 after covid….
Tasmanian Poetry Festival, September 2022
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 and 18th and the main Festival on the following weekend, from Friday the 23rd to the 25th of September. The festival also hopes to have…
Tasmanian Poetry Festival 2006
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…