Land and Sea as Muse (Online)

Zenobia Frost is an arts writer and award-winning poet based in Brisbane. Her most recent poetry collection, After the Demolition (Cordite Books), won the 2020 Wesley Michel Wright Award and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. She recently received a Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award and, in 2020, edited coffee-table history book Art Starts Here: 40 Years of Metro Arts.

Vicki Hastrich’s biography The Last Days of Zane Grey vividly examines the life of the American western writer, celebrity and big game-fisherman Zane Grey via the untold story of Grey's two trips to Australia in the 1930s. Known for her keen eye and deep understanding of storytelling and history, Vicki is the author of two novels, Swimming with the Jellyfish and The Great Arch, and the memoir Night Fishing: Stingrays, Goya and the singular life (2019). Writing in the Times Literary Supplement, critic Beejay Silcox has called Night Fishing 'the literary equivalent of a glass-bottomed boat, a frame for wonderment'.

A Kinder Sea explores the sea as sanctuary, hoard and repository. Composed of sequences – love letters, elegies, narratives and odes – it looks outwards from the intimate to take in others’ lives and voices, remaking form and craft. Felicity Plunkett’s remarkable poems balance wrack and loss with vitality, resilience and beauty. 

Angela Rockel is the author of Rogue Intensities, winner of the Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript (UWA Publishing 2019). She was born in Aotearoa New Zealand and has lived all her adult life in rural lutruwita Tasmania. Her writing is a meditation on the experiences of living in place and a search for language capable of supporting conversations about landscape, community, history, family and inner and outer life, towards a politics of imagination and being.