The Queensland Poetry Festival #QPF2022 program has launched! I’ll be part of some awesome events, including The Self, Emerging and Celebrating 20 years of the Thomas Shapcott Prize, as well as hopping about the place doing QP socials and being a social butterfly. Come say hi!
Check out the program and grab your tickets on the shiny new QPF website.
Cordite has published a chapbook of new work by Queensland Poetry Festival’s 2020 Writers in (Digital) Residence: Ivan Coyote, Amina Atiq, Kate Durbin and Nick Makoha. Local poets Pascalle Burton, Kylie Thomson, Zenobia Frost and myself also responded to these commissioned works! You can read the wonderful digital chapbook (and my new poem ‘Wheelie bin’) on the Cordite website.
Image by Jackie Ryan.
Nothing Ever Happens in Brisbane reviewed Cirquetry at Queensland Poetry Festival! Huge thanks to Nothing Ever Happens in Brisbane for this attentive and insightful review.
I was proud to be part of this performance alongside Maddy Grant, Elyse Fitzpatrick, Georgia Bale, Raelee Lancaster, and Chloe Callistemon, directed by Celia White.
“The showing explores the ideas of the emotional and physical risk-taking in the bodies and minds of poets and circus performers. Instead of keeping to their art form of choice, the performers incorporate the skills of their peers into their pieces. The circus artists wax lyrical while climbing over each other and bouncing off bungy cords. Poets dance, play on aerial silks and balance off each other. The rhythms of spoken word replace music and give voice to the unspoken of circus. Movements give new layers of gravity, meaning to the poetry. It is a truly of a collaboration of art forms.”
“Highlights were the first two pieces, building the world of the show, as the performers repeated words to Georgia Bale performing on lyra. These words formed the core the first spoken word pieced performed by Rae White, while they were being moved and cocooned by the rest of the ensemble, and ending in the group moving in synch.”
The incredible Queensland Poetry Festival program ‘Deep Listening’ has been launched! I’ll be part of two awesome events this year:
☀️ Reading Queensland with Liam Ferney, Shastra Deo and Angela Gardner. We’ll be reading from, listening to and enquiring about each other’s work in a friendly and insightful in-conversation.
🎭 Cirquetry – a collaborative work between award-winning local poets and Vulcana circus artists, directed by Celia White and conceived by Chloe Callistemon.
** Check out the full program on the QPF website **
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! 🙂
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!
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!
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
This month I’m lucky enough to have two upcoming poetry readings in Brisbane!
Can’t wait to read alongside all these incredibly talented poets!
Super pumped to announce I’ll be reading at Queensland Poetry Festival‘s COUPLET in October alongside the incredible Angela Gardner!
** Friday October 6, 2017 from 5.30-6.30pm at the Brisbane Square Library **
I’ll be sure to entertain you with the weirdest and queerest poems from my manuscript ‘Milk Teeth’. See you there!
This year’s Queensland Poetry Festival has an incredible line-up of 80+ sessions and 120+ artists!
I’m pumped to announce I’ll be reading at QPF New Voices from 10-11am Sunday 27th August, Judith Wright Centre – IMA Screening Room, Brisbane.
Rae White 