You can listen back to my interview with Beth AQ on The Glasshouse on Triple R, which aired on Wednesday 5 September 2018. We spoke about the Milk Teeth launch at QPF, the Brisbane poetry scene, self-care and catharsis, and poetry beyond the page.
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QPF 2018 wrap-up
Queensland Poetry Festival was a magical experience! Huge thanks to everyone who bought my book or a zine or said hi. It was great to meet so many poets and creative folk over the weekend.
If you missed out on a copy of Milk Teeth, it will be on sale from 3 September. You can preorder it now on Booktopia or grab a copy at your local bookstore next week.
I’ll also have a limited number of books for sale at Breaking Down the Highway – QUT/Griffith Reading Event, which I have the pleasure of reading at on Wednesday 29 August, 2018 – 7-10pm @ Sabotage Social, Fortitude Valley.
I met a lot of people who loved the non-binary 101 zine that was handed out at the Milk Teeth QPF launch, but wanted to see it as a resource they could refer to later. So here it is as a PDF!
If I have the time, I’d love to develop it into a non-binary 101 zine that’s not as me-focused or QPF-specific. We’ll see! 🙂
Interview with Joy FM
Last night my interview on Joy FM aired! Have a listen back to my chat with Miranda on The Gender Agenda, as we talk about the launch of Milk Teeth and what it feels like to ‘make it’ as a poet.
‘Do more, do better’ – new poetry @ Cordite!
The wonderful Cordite Publishing Inc. commissioned Keira Edwards-Huolohan and I for an art-poetry-essay project! The process of working on this commission was collaborative, cathartic and invigorating.
‘Do more, do better’ is a poem in four parts that explores transgender discrimination through a hypothetical augmented reality (AR) mobile app. There are accompanying inked and embroidered art pieces, which reiterate key themes within the poem, and a critical statement, which analyses the poem and artwork while asking ‘the reader as well as the wider community if they are doing enough for trans people and others in marginalised communities’.
TRIGGER WARNINGS for the pieces: transphobia, including mentions of misgendering, slurs, violence, death, self-harm.
Read the poem ‘Do more, do better’.
A big thank you to Kent MacCarter and Rosalind McFarlane at Cordite for their encouragement and commission of this project. It was an absolute joy to work with you both!
Queensland Poetry Festival 2018
Last night the Queensland Poetry Festival program for 2018 was launched and it’s truly wonderful! The festival runs from Thursday 23rd to Sunday 26th August 2018 and you can view the FULL PROGRAM on the website.
Here’s a peak at what I’ll be getting up to at the Festival, including reading queer poetry, slinging zines and launching my very first book!
- Sat 25 August, 2018 4.30-6pm – The Big Read @ Judith Wright Centre, Performance Space. Featuring: Alison Whittaker, Tricia Dearborn, Fury The Poet, Laniyuk Garcon-Mills, Stuart Barnes and Zenobia Frost! This event is also Auslan interpreted with is so important and good.
- Sat 25 August, 2018 6-7pm – MILK TEETH book launch! @ Judith Wright Centre, Foyer
- Sun 26 August, 2018 12-5pm – QPF Zine Fair @ Judith Wright Centre
Over the next month I’ll highlight some of the events I’m looking forward to in the program via Twitter and Facebook. There are so many great things to see and I’m so pumped!
The Tundish Review Issue 6
Attention Brisbane folk! The Tundish Review Issue 6 Launch is tomorrow evening at Betty’s Espresso & Bar from 7pm.
I’ll be reading some poetry about teen camping trips and Pokemon Go!
And if you feel inclined to read something yourself, there’s an open mic. Wow us with your words and buy a copy of The Tundish Review #6!
Milk Teeth’s first review!
Last week I received a lovely FOUR STAR review of Milk Teeth at Books & Publishing by Carody Culver. My book was described as a ‘striking debut poetry collection’ from ‘a powerful new voice in Australian poetry’!!!
Don’t forget, Milk Teeth will be launched at the Queensland Poetry Festival 23-26 Aug 2018! If you can’t attend QPF, you can also preorder the book on a heckload of places, including Penguin and Booktopia, or pop into your local independent bookshop and ask for a copy. 🙂
Cover of Milk Teeth
New poems, inspired by spam!
I have just released a weird zine / micro-chapbook of new poems called ‘Junk’, inspired by a spam email I received. I was drawn to the peculiar poetry of the probable-bot, who was trying to seduce me with clunky mysterious lines like: ‘I stroked him his chest, abdomen, sponges.’
So I used only lines, phrases and words from this spam email to create 5 poems. I hope you enjoy it!
Queer space rabbits?!
This month has been poem-tastic, with three of my pieces being published in quick succession! What a good time!
‘astrophobia’ was released in A Visitor’s Guide to the Void, which is available on itch.io. This guidebook is a stand-alone accompaniment to a larger performance installation, Enter the Void. I’m so pumped to be a part of this stunning, stellar project! Other rad poets in the guidebook include: Jennifer Mace, Kaolin Fire, Toby MacNutt, Mari Ness, Hester J Rook, and Melody Watson.
Photo by Toby MacNutt
I have a non-binary-themed poem in the most recent Rabbit 24 – LGBTQIA+ issue. It’s about the ridiculous lengths people go to in order to erase trans people, especially on forms and surveys, punctuated with humour and heavy sarcasm.
Rabbit #24, copyright Rabbit Poetry
And finally, Concrete Queers released their latest issue #11 Home and it contains my poem ‘Walk me home’. You can buy a copy here on Etsy. Other featured creatives in this issue are: Pewkazilla, Bridget Flack, Cassandra Cho, Ellen Muller, Rob Corica, Nicole Field, Hester J. Rook, Alison Evans, and Zenobia Frost.
Photo: Concrete Queers #11 Home
All these sweet poems will be also in my upcoming poetry collection Milk Teeth, published by UQP!!!
Photo: Fancy cover of my book!
New poem at Ibis House
For those of you who don’t know, I love the sacred Bris-bin ibis a lot, so to be published in a mag called Ibis House is both a privilege and very On Brand for me.
** Read my new poem ‘Sabbatical’ at Ibis House here! **
And if you enjoy the poem, don’t forget you can add a tip (pls give me ur monies) 💸
You can also submit your own work to Ibis House, which I’d super recommend coz they pay and they also make cool art inspired by your work. Like this intense and spooky video for ‘Sabbatical’ which I love!
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