What happens to words in space? QPF returns for three days of poetry, spoken word, film, performance, installations, gaming, slam, comedy, launches, hip-hop, book clubs, music, circus and suitcase rummage to see if poetry can live on other planets.
50+ sessions featuring interstellar guests Les Murray, Quan (Regurgitator), Mayda Del Valle (US), Angela Meyer, MacGillivray (Scotland), Michael Farrell, Ivy Alvarez (NZ), Omar Musa, C.R. Avery (Canada), David Brooks, Krissy Kneen, Ryan Van Winkle (Scotland), Hope One (NZ), Justin Stephenson (Canada), Damian Cowell (TISM), and the 2015 Arts Queensland Poet in Residence Kate Durbin (pictured).
Plus special in-flight features the 2015 Poetry Awards, Australian Poetry Slam – QLD Final, SlammED! school slam final, HELLO SELFIE live project, black&write! session, and #wanderingcloud transmitting cycles of rain to the stage.
Queensland Poetry Festival 2015
Friday 28 to Sunday 30 August 2015
Performance Space and Shopfront, JWCOCA
www.judithwrightcentre.com
