Sport Edition Launch

Rabbit Journal


Jessica Wilkinson + Holly Isemonger + Anna Jacobson + B.R. Dionysius + Stuart Cooke

Festival Hub, Maiwar Green

Free

Poetry / Sport

233

#Performances


#About the event


#Artists

Jessica Wilkinson

Jessica Wilkinson

Jessica Wilkinson is the Editor-in-Chief of Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry and the author of the poetic biographies Marionette and Suite for Percy Grainger. She teaches Creative Writing at RMIT University.

Holly Isemonger

Holly Isemonger

Holly Isemonger has been published in Cordite, Shabby Doll House and Voiceworks. She is the author of the chapbook Hip Shifts (If A Leaf Falls Press) and Deluxe Paperweight (Stale Objects dePress) .

She tweets @hisemonger.

Anna Jacobson

Anna Jacobson

Anna Jacobson is an award-winning writer and artist from Meanjin (Brisbane). Her poetry collection Amnesia Findings (UQP) won the 2018 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. Anna’s second illustrated poetry collection, Anxious in a Sweet Store was published with Upswell in 2023. Her memoir How to Knit a Human is forthcoming with NewSouth Publishing in 2024. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Creative Writing from the Queensland University of Technology. Anna’s website is www.annajacobson.com.au.

B.R. Dionysius

B.R. Dionysius

B.R. Dionysius was founding Director of the Queensland Poetry Festival. His poetry has been widely published in literary journals, anthologies, newspapers and online. He is the author of one artist’s book, The Barflies’ Chorus (1995, Lyrebird Press), four poetry collections, Fatherlands (2000, Five Islands Press), Bacchanalia (2002, Interactive Press), Bowra (2013, Whitmore Press), Weranga (2013, Walleah Press), a verse novel, Universal Andalusia (2006, SOI 3) and two chapbooks, The Negativity Bin (2010, PressPress) and The Curious Noise of History (2011, Picaro Press). He won the 2009 Max Harris Poetry Award, was joint winner of the 2011 Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize and was short-listed in the 2017 Montreal International Poetry Prize.

He lives in Brisbane, teaches English and in his spare time watches birds. brdionysius.com     

Stuart Cooke

Stuart Cooke

Stuart Cooke is a poet, translator and critic. His latest poetry collection is Opera (Five Islands Press, 2016) and his translation of Gianni Siccardi's The Blackbird was recently published by Vagabond Press. He lectures in creative writing and literary studies at Griffith University.

#Moderator

Liam Ferney

Liam Ferney

Liam Ferney's most recent collection is Hot Take (Hunter Publishing). It follows on from Content (Hunter Publishing) which was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards and the Judith Wright Calanthe Award and Boom (Grande Parade Poets) which was shortlisted for Judith Wright Calanthe Aware and the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry.

He is a media manager, poet and aspiring left-back living in Brisbane.


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