Poets@Stones: Queensland's newest boutique reading series
The next in our series of curated poetry events is on Thursday 26 September at 6.30pm.
All our events are free to attend, but bookings are required as seats are limited.
Please reserve your seat by emailing info@booksatstones.com.au
About Poets@Stones
Curated by renowned Queensland poet, Brett (B. R.) Dionysius, Poets@Stones is held on the last Thursday of each month, from February through to November, and features readings from three local poets.
Our featured Poets in September:
Jarad Bruinstroop
Jarad Bruinstroop’s debut poetry collection, Reliefs, won the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and is available now through UQP. He won the 2023 Val Vallis Award. His work has appeared in The Best of Australian Poems, Meanjin, Overland, and elsewhere. As the University of Queensland Fryer Library Creative Writing Fellow, he is developing a novella cycle that draws on Brisbane’s Queer history. He holds a PhD in Creative Writing from QUT where he also teaches.
Pym Schaare
Pym Marion Schaare is a linguist, poet, author, reviewer and editor. Schaare’s poems and other works have been published nationally in poetry magazines, anthologies, and in short story collections, in the UK, France and Ireland. Pym’s works have shortlisted in Fish Publishing, (2018), ACU poetry prize, (2019). Pym’s poem, Venice won the Robyn Mathison Poetry Award (2017). Since Then, Pym has published Poems and Commentary: The Poetry of Performance, and other collected works.
Rose Lucas
Rose Lucas is a Melbourne poet, writer and academic and currently teaches at Victoria University and supervises in creative writing. Her poems have appeared in Heat, Meanjin, Hecate, Best Australian Poems, and she was shortlisted for the ABR Poetry Prize in 2009. Even in the Dark (UWAP 2013), her first collection of poetry, won the Mary Gilmore Award; her second collection, Unexpected Clearing was also published by UWAP in 2016. Her third collection, This Shuttered Eye was released in 2021 by Liquid Amber Press.
