Poets@Stones: boutique monthly poetry series (June)

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

The next in our series of curated poetry events is on Thursday 26 June, 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 for June are Peter Bakowski, Lesley Synge and Ron Heard.

Peter Bakowski - In 1983, Peter Bakowski wrote his first poem at a farmhouse in Waco, Texas, upon receiving a “Dear John” letter. Peter then travelled for 7 years, caught a freight train across Montana, lived in a cave on a Mexican island, ate gazelle cooked in stale blood with road builders in the Central Africa Republic. 2024 represents his 42nd year of writing poems.

Lesley Synge was born under the Tropic of Capricorn and lives on Turrbal and Jagera land in Brisbane/Meanjin. Her poetry collections are ‘Mountains Belong to the People Who Love Them’; ‘Organic Sister; Signora Bella’s Grand Tour’ with Work forthcoming in 2024, Ginninderra Press. She is widely collected in anthologies (Live Poets at Don Banks, The Sky Falls Down) and a number of works have been integrated into new works in other art forms. Her most recent acceptance is the prose poem ‘Want it, Want it, Want it’ for Klecksograph 15. Lesley Synge is also a much awarded novelist (‘Cry Ma Ma to the Moon’ about poets) and non-fiction writer. Her most recent live readings were at Book@Stones for World Poetry Day (March) and The Bug (July) 2024.

Ron Heard is a Brisbane based cyclist and poet who has worked as a schoolteacher, university tutor, computer programmer, adult trainer and university planning officer. He co-edits the poetry magazine, ‘The Mozzie’ which began in 2002 and is still going to the present day. His collections include ‘River, She-Oak and Wind’ (Post Pressed, 2007) a selected work of poetry, ‘The Dogs of Our Lives: The First Australian Anthology of Dog Poems’ (2004) edited with Gloria B. Yates, and the historical poetic masterpiece, ‘The Shadow of Troy’ (Ginninderra Press, 2011). A recent collection is ‘A Life Deserves Nine Cats (2023) with illustrator Sue Schindler.

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