Poets@Stones: boutique monthly poetry series (August)

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

The next in our series of curated poetry events is on Thursday 27 August, 6pm for 6:30pm readings.

Join us from 6pm for wine, cheese and chats with Brisbane's local poetry community!

Bookings essential - get in early as our poets nights fill up quickly!

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.

Our featured poets this month:

• Rae White

• Angela Gardner

• Nathan Shepherdson

About the poets

Angela Gardner is a Welsh Australian writer and visual artist. Her most recent poetry collections are The Closed Spaces, (Shearsman Books, UK) and Slippage, (Recent Work Press), Canberra, shortlisted for the Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award, both published in 2026. A verse novel The Sorry Tale of the Mignonette, (Shearsman), was shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year, 2022 and a UK National Poetry Day recommendation. Poems are published in The Yale Review, West Branch, Image (USA); Poetry Salzburg Review (Austria); SoftBlow (Singapore); Blackbox Manifold, The Long Poem (UK); Meanjin, Westerly, Southerly and Cordite (Australia). She currently lives in Ireland.

Nathan Shepherdson is the author of ten books of poetry. In 2005, he won the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for his beautiful, elegiac volume of poetry ‘Sweeping the Light Back into the Mirror’. ‘Apples with Human Skin’ was his second volume of poetry. He is also a sometime collaborator with artists and poets including Pascalle Burton, Sandra Selig, Jonathan McBurnie, and Peter Hudson. His most recent books are ‘axolotl waltz’ (Puncher & Wattmann) and ‘soft meteorites’ (Upswell).

Rae White is the author of poetry collections Milk Teeth (UQP 2018) and Exactly As I Am (UQP 2022), and the picture book All the Colours of the Rainbow (Lothian Children’s Books 2025), with illustrations by Sha’an d’Anthes. They won the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, and have been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, Queensland Literary Awards, and Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. Rae is the Creative Director and Founder of Uplift Poetry, a community poetry initiative; the Founding Editor of #EnbyLife, a journal for non-binary and gender diverse creatives; and a co-host on the 4ZZZ radio show Tranzmission.

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