Poets@Stones: boutique monthly poetry series (April)

Poets@Stones: Queensland's boutique poetry series - live readings by local poets

The next in our series of curated poetry events is on Thursday 24 April, 6.30 - 7:30pm.

About Poets@Stones

Curated by renowned Queensland poet, Brett (B. R.) Dionysius, Poets@Stones is held on the last Thursday of each month, from January through to November, and features readings from three local poets.

Our featured Poets this month are Rae White, Svetlana Sterlin, and Shastra Deo.

Rae White is a queer non-binary transgender writer, and author of poetry collections Milk Teeth (UQP 2018) and Exactly As I Am (UQP 2022). Rae was awarded the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and has been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, Queensland Literary Awards, and Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. Their debut picture book All the Colours of the Rainbow (Lothian Children’s Books/Hachette), with illustrations by Sha’an d’Anthes, was published in January 2025. Rae is Creative Director and Founder of community poetry initiative Uplift Poetry, and Founding Editor of #EnbyLife, a journal for non-binary and gender diverse creatives.

Svetlana Sterlin writes prose, poetry, and screenplays in Meanjin. A swimming coach and former swimmer, her work draws inspiration from in and around the pool, including her debut poetry collection, If Movement Was a Language. The manuscript was the 2023 winner of the Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award and is available now through Vagabond Press. She is also the founding editor of swim meet lit mag. Find more of her words in Island, Westerly, Cordite, and elsewhere.   

Shastra Deo was born in Fiji, raised in Melbourne, and lives in Brisbane. Her first book, The Agonist (UQP 2017), won the 2016 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and the 2018 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Her second book, The Exclusion Zone (UQP 2023), was longlisted for the 2024 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal.

All our events are free to attend, but bookings are required as seats are limited.