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AUGUST COUPLET
August 4, 2017 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm AEST
FREECurated by Queensland Poetry Festival, COUPLET is a free poetry and performance event that presents two dynamic voices every month.
Join us for August’s COUPLET, which sees the start of Queensland Multicultural Month (who are a QPF2017 festival partner)
Melbourne’s Gayelene Carbis is in town to launch her first collection of poetry Anecdotal Evidence (Five Islands Press) at COUPLET. Gayelene is a poet/performance poet, playwright, and prose writer of Chinese/Irish/Cornish heritage whose work has been published and performed in Australia and overseas. Gayelene has been recently shortlisted for various poetry prizes, including: the Montreal International Poetry Prize; Fish International Poetry Prize (Ireland); and the Adrien Abbott; Martha Richardson Memorial; and Melbourne Poets Union International Poetry Prizes. Gayelene was awarded a Writing Studio (Poetry) Scholarship to the Banff Arts Centre in Canada in 2012 and read her work in Canada and New York. Gayelene’s most recent one-woman show won Best Premiere Production at the Sarasota Festival, Florida (US) and will be performed in Melbourne later this year.
Joining her will be an exciting emerging Brisbane voice, Natalie Catalan. Natalie is a poet, student, mass consumer of all things potato based and winner of QPF’s SlammED 2015. Nurtured by only the warmest of smiles nestled in the crooks of her high school, her romance with writing ignited after watching a bearded man talk about his feeling when she was 15. Once only for assignments, she now writes to turn hazy things solid and solid things hazy- a cycling of dreams. Her work has been published in Pressure gauge andcan also be found online here.
Friday 4 August, 5.30 – 6.30 pm
Brisbane Square Library
FREE
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