FRI 28TH AUGUST ROCKETS SAT 29TH AUGUST COMETS SUN 30TH AUGUST SOLAR FLARES SPOKEN WORD & SLAM STARS

DIRTY JEANS WORKSHOP THE NEW BRAVES HOWZAT! BATTLE SCARS: Air your dirty laundry. Join Elisa Biagini (Italy) to explore the links What is the poetry of the future Join ‘Australia’s greatest living poet’ SlammED! Final in his only Brisbane between art and words. In this visual poetry workshop you will clans? Join three contemporary QPF’s first ever Youth Slam. Heats to be held in 8 SE QLD schools, appearance as he reads from his explore the work of contemporary artists & poets such as Roni Scottish poets who draw on identity 16 students face off to see who will get their poetic licence in 2015. new collection Waiting for the Past Horni, Jenny Holzer, and Ketty La Rocca as well as writing an while playing with traditional forms Hosted by QPF’s teacher-poet Simon Kindt & featuring Scottish and discusses what the future holds original text and then creating a poetry installation with it and tomorrow’s language. Featuring wunderkid Billy Letford with The Courier Mail’s Arts Editor, Queensland Writers Centre Ryan Van Winkle, William Letford, Presented in partnership with State Library of Queensland 10am – 1pm and MacGillvray Phil Brown JWC Theatre Cost $50 Limited numbers Presented by Creative Scotland JWC Theatre Sat 29th Aug 10am – 11.30am Bookings Essential via [email protected] 10.45am – 11.30am Queensland Poetry JWC Theatre FREE Festival acknowledges 5pm – 6pm Tickets from $12 – $14 FREE the assistance of the Queensland MACGILLIVRAY LES MURRAY CAN I GET A MOMENT! Government through Arts Queensland. TREATY WORKSHOP Queensland Poetry Festival would also like to acknowledge the HARA-KARAOKE Hear from some of our nation’s proudest and finest Aboriginal support of Australia Council for the Arts, Brisbane City Council and our voices. Co-presented by black&write! featuring Marie Munkara, Mayda Del Valle (US) makes ‘words This is the real reason TISM couldn’t festival & event partners State Library of Queensland, Judith Wright award-winning author Ellen van Neerven (Heat and Light), burst forth like a comet streaking do Eurovision. Join TISM front man Centre of Contemporary Arts, Queensland Writers Centre, IMA, Philip Ali Cobby Eckermann and the fierce joy of Lionel Fogarty across a nighttime sky.’ She has Damian Cowell for an exclusive Bacon Galleries, Word Travels, Creative Scotland and the Canada Council. appeared on Broadway and on 6 Brisbane performance of his acclaimed JWC Theatre episodes of Russell Simmons HBO Def Comedy Festival show 12pm – 1pm ELISA BIAGINI Poetry Jam, made Oprah’s first ever FREE QUEENSLANDPOETRYFESTIVAL.COM JWC Shopfront ‘O Power List’, and has performed ONE CROWDED HOUR 6.30pm – 7.30pm at the White House. A spoken word Tickets from $18 – $20 #WANDERINGCLOUD workshop like no other – learn how to 2015 Poetry Awards bend poems at your will MAYDA DEL VALLE DAMIAN COWELL See this year’s shooting stars as we announce the winner of the Brings forth the cycles of rain. A multi-arts collaboration that pays Queensland Writers Centre Arts Queensland Awards & the Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award, with homage to those affected by flood. Featuring Clocked Out Duo, Sun 30th Aug 10am – 12pm feature guests Elisa Biagini and Tessa Leon. MC’d by your head performance poet Klare Lanson, songstress Andree Cozens & artist THE KING IS DEAD Cost $50, limited numbers astronomers Annie Te Whiu & David Stavanger Jacques Soddell. This semi-improvised work finds lyrical beauty A night of local and international through the use of toy instruments, discarded object percussion, Bookings Essential via [email protected] JWC Shopfront Hip-Hop featuring Australian Poetry spoken word, mobile phones, soundscape, song and live visual mixing 6pm – 7pm Drinks & strings from 5.30pm Slam Champion Omar Musa (Here QUEENSLAND FREE JWC Theatre YOU’RE THE VOICE Come the Dogs), Brisbane’s own 4.30pm – 5.30pm Rivermouth, beatboxers Hope One Australian Poetry Slam - Queensland State Final WALKING ON A DREAM Tickets from $12 – $14 POETRY (NZ) and C.R. Avery (Canada), After 6 heats around the state, the final 12 bring the noise to see Watch poetry defy gravity with electronic a special performance by the who will be going to the national final at the Sydney Opera House. wordsmith Michael Farrell, sonic explorer FESTIVAL Aboriginal Centre for Performing Featuring Performance Poetry World champion Rebecca Rushbrook Seja, space junk priestess Kate Durbin (US), RIVERMOUTH Arts with Kate Durbin, and your host and Mayda Del Valle, with Australia’s best dressed MC Adam Hadley language is a virus Vulcana Circus with Ali Cobby Eckermann, with the most MC BustyBeatz time traveller Quan () in solo JWC Theatre flight mode, spoken word moonwalker JWC Theatre, 8pm – 10.30pm Sunday 30th Aug 8pm – 10pm C.R. Avery (Canada) and your MC co-pilots Tickets from $12 – $14 Tickets from $12 – $14 Fanciful Fiction Auxiliary 2015 AUGUST 28 - 30 JWC Theatre, 7.30pm – 10.00pm FOR TICKETED SHOWS PLEASE CONTACT JUDITH WRIGHT CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS QUAN Tickets from $18 – $25 www.judithwrightcentre.com Box Office: 3872 9000 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane SATURDAY 29th AUGUST SATURDAY 29th AUGUST SUNDAY 30TH AUGUST SUNDAY 30TH AUGUST

“LANGUAGE IS A VIRUS SHOPFRONT IMA SCREENING ROOM or OTHER AS LISTED SHOPFRONT THEATRE continued IMA SCREENING ROOM or OTHER AS LISTED FROM OUTER SPACE” My People What’s My Scene? Polyester Girl Workshop What About Me? Pleasure & Pain 9.30am – 10.30am Judith Wright Centre Forecourt 34 Berwick St, Fortitude Valley 10.30am – 11.30am 1.30pm – 2.30pm Chandelier Meet the people behind Brisbane’s 9am – 12pm 1.30pm – 2.30pm QPF’s 2015 emerging voices Tessa The fine lines of Ivy Alvarez, Angela 10am – 10.30am William S. Burroughs open mics. Des Skordilis, Angela Peita, QPF’s first ever Suitcase Rummage Cross the road to Poly Gone Cowboy to Rose, Stuart Barnes, Anna Jacobson, Meyer & MacGillvray (Scotland) Chloë Callistemon presents film Reverend Hellfire & JdUb join MC Matt with roving poets print a Quan original on a take home Yasmin Smith & Daniel Grey give loops based on the maverick star Hetherington t-shirt for $10. Limited spaces. Sunday the kick inside Take the Weather With You bright that was Judith Wright, in this her centenary year Man Overboard Beautiful Sharks Email [email protected] to book Special Event: #wanderingcloud Who Listens To The Radio? 11am – 12pm 10am – 10.30am Jive Talkin’ 4.30pm – 5.30pm No Secrets Readings by Carmen Leigh Keates & 1on1 David Brooks swims in the deep 12pm– 1pm Klare Lanson + Clocked Out 11.30am – 12.30pm Sarah Holland-Batt (The Hazards) end with Jonathan Hadwen 2.30pm – 3pm QPF’s first ever short-form book club. KRISSY KNEEN See over for details Four stranger’s stories shared + Fence Post Press launches 1on1 Justin Stephenson joins Lance Join Angela Meyer, Krissy Kneen, KATE DURBIN through headphones. Sitting face Helen Avery’s Loosely Defined Beautiful People Sinclair to cut up poetry & film Ryan Van Winkle & Felicity Plunkett THEATRE as they discuss poetry & flash fiction Into The Galaxy to face. Daniele Constance’s People 11.30am – 12.30pm Film World Premier: of Interest is storytelling without Machines Can Do the Work The Boys Light Up that have lit up their page Battle Scars Hit us with your best shot @ the THE COMPLETE WORKS The Complete Works borders FRIDAY 28th AUGUST 12.30pm – 1.30pm SELFIE Slam Brunswick Street Mall WHAT HAPPENS TO WORDS IN SPACE? SlammED! Final Better The Devil You Know 6.30pm – 7.30pm What is the future of poetry? MC 4pm – 5pm THEATRE 15 years in the making, Canadian Bedroom Eyes Justin Clemens leads Michael Farrell, 10am – 11.30am 1.30pm – 2.30pm SHOPFRONT THEATRE Computer Games Justin Stephenson presents his film 1pm – 1.30pm Karina Quinn & the 2014 Prime Explore the male psyche. featuring William Letford (Scotland) 1pm – 2pm Readings by Vanessa Page, The Complete Works exploring the Minister’s Literary Award winner HELLO SELFIE live & interactive Ego Is Not A Dirty Word Kate Durbin takes you down This was the premise with which we approached our first One Crowded Hour Walking On A Dream See over for details Michael Farrell & David Brooks work of avant-garde poet bpNichol Melinda Smith into the portal Poetry meets Playstation. Calling all on the mall with Kate Durbin 10am – 10.30am YOUTUBE lane, from kittens to Kanye year as Co-Directors of the Queensland Poetry Festival, as it 6pm – 7pm 7.30pm – 10pm gamers to decode Alinta Krauth’s An Supported by the Canada Council Listen Like Thieves Women in Uniform QPF Co-Director David Stavanger celebrates its 19th anniversary. (drinks & strings from 5.30pm) Join Michael Farrell, Kate Durbin, Hook Me Up Argument in Parallel Incompleteness A Beat for You The Horses 12pm – 1pm 3pm – 4pm mines Mr Clive Palmer as he shares Official Opening Seja, Quan (Regurgitator), C.R. 2pm – 3pm 6pm – 6.30pm his dreams, hopes & reflections You’re The Voice 2.30pm – 2.45pm Poets that steal the very night. Wigs in space, where poetry meets Australian Poetry Slam - QLD Final In Back to the Future II, Dr Emmett Brown foresaw from the Arts Queensland Poetry Awards Avery and Ali Cobby Eckermann with Electric readings by Ivy Alvarez (NZ) Truly, Madly, Deeply including a rare poetry reading Nyien Way (Myanmar), Omar Musa Punk meets DIY zombie poetry. performance art. Karina Quinn, Mr Ocean goes deep sea diving with Phililp Bacon Ekphrasis Award Vulcana Circus as they open the & Klare Lanson & electronic sounds JWCOCA Foyer 8pm – 10pm front seat of the DeLorean that in 2015 there would be video & Elisa Biagini (Italy) mOzach live from the basement. 24 Hour Gym & Kate Durbin poetry & PowerPoint Queensland Poetry Festival 2015 by Scraps glasses, hands-free computer games, the iPad, and face- MC’s Annie Te Whiu & David Stavanger Saturday Howzat! The last shout. Featuring Mayda Del See over for details MC’s Fanciful Fiction Auxillary Know Your Product Valle, Rebecca Rushbrook & your MC Mysterious Girl Ordinary Angels 2pm – 3pm Lucy Can’t Dance 10.45am – 11.30am time phone calls. And while flying cars and shoelaces that tie See over for details Don’t Go Now Adam Hadley 1.30pm – 2.30pm The Courier Mail’s Phil Brown sits 3pm – 3.30pm 3.45pm – 5pm 7pm – 8pm 4.30pm – 5pm See over for details themselves are still just blueprints, we have some predictions Readings by award-winning poets Sunday down with our nation’s poetic Angela Gardner reads, Alice Night Can poets groove? DJ Zaziz hits the 1on1 Mayda Del Valle (US) gets down M.T.C. Cronin, David Brooks 11.30am – 12.30pm In space, no one hears guitars treasure, Les Murray of our own. sings to the light decks, you bring the bad moves with Mz BustyBeatz & Melinda Smith 1pm – 2pm scream. Brisbane’s Extinction of See over for details + Ali Cobby Eckermann launches QPF 2015 sees chief scientist and Arts Queensland Poet in Take a seat with Tessa Leon at Judith Animals Tip of My Tongue Inside My Mother Thomas Shapcott Book Launch Get Thee To A Nunnery Residence, Kate Durbin, work with mediums such as selfies Wright’s writing desk, making love Treaty 4pm – 4.30pm 3pm – 3.45pm letters to the living. Paper heart 8.30pm – 9.30pm Electric Blue and YouTube to challenge the underlying assumptions of form. Damian Cowell’s Hara-Karaoke 12pm – 1pm 1on1 QPF Co-Director Annie Te Whiu UQP launch 2014’s Thomas Shapcott meets pen​ Get undressed to confess at the Naked 5.30pm – 6.45pm 6.30pm – 7.30pm Ellen van Neerven, Marie Munkara, in conversation with Nyein Way As Burroughs said, language is a virus from outer space. Award winning manuscript, Krissy Poets Open Mic with Krissy Kneen & There is a place where all the planets The real reason TISM didn’t do Ali Cobby Eckermann & Lionel Fogarty Kneen’s Eating My Grandmother screening of Jr Belle’s Uprising Pact meet. This is that place. Fanciful And poetry is its mutant strain, carried on the air, constantly Eurovision See over for details Torn including a documentary screening (Brazil). Note: clothes optional Fiction Auxiliary, C.R. Avery & evolving regardless of the past or the present. See over for details JWCOCA Foyer Tessa Leon in cabaret mode The New Braves – Scotland 5.45pm – 6.15pm Come along to QPF 2015 for three days of poetry that defies QPF Up Late: Quasimodo’s Dream 5pm – 6pm 1on1 Elisa Biagini & Nathan 10pm – 11pm the space-time continuum including spoken word, film, Performances by William Letford, Shepherdson discuss Italy’s finest performance, politics, installations, gaming, slam, comedy, Enter the night lens of David Lynch as MacGillvray & Ryan Van Winkle lines & wines Elisa Biagini, Ivy Alvarez, Adam Hadley, See over for details launches, hip-hop, book clubs, music, circus and suitcase Angela Meyer, Damian Cowell, FOR FULL BIOS & INFO ON SATELLITE EVENTS GO TO Somebody That I Used To Know Pascalle Burton & more read cut ups The King Is Dead rummage to see if poetry can live on other planets. www.queenslandpoetryfestival.com 8pm – 10pm from the subconscious 8pm – 10.30pm With much thanks to the QPF Board & Committee, the QLD With special permission from the C.R. AVERY Hope One (NZ), C.R. Avery (Canada), Weir family, QPF will be screening Poetry Community, and to those poets who risk breathing in Rivermouth, Aboriginal Centre of the Australian classic, Picnic at space without a mask. Performing Arts with Kate Durbin Hanging Rock, as it celebrates its Omar Musa & DJ, with the night’s 40th anniversary. Join film fans Kate MC BustyBeatz on the decks Durbin & Lance Sinclair & PJ’s, pizza Annie Te Whiu & David Stavanger See over for details & popcorn welcome Queensland Poetry Festival Co-Directors HENRY, DAVID BROOKS, JONATHON 24 HOUR GYM