Poets@Stones: boutique monthly poetry series (May)

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

The next in our series of curated poetry events is on Thursday 29 May, 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...

Rob Morris is a writer, community radio broadcaster conceived and later born in Brisbane. Still Kicking and Cloudland Funicular Cha-Cha are his own favourite books. Once, he took home the Warana Fringe Festival Poetry Cup which he treasures almost as much as his Life Membership of the FAW(Q) where he was a poetry editor, columnist and regular contributor. He has been widely published. Small Packages and Neither/Nor (with Francis Boyle) keep him busy, as does staying upright. A vinyl collector, teacher, parent, husband and literary hoarder, he was once called “you bloody beatnik!” (circa 1970). Rob is enormously inquisitive about what “art” gives to life. Seriously!

Susan Venz is a Queensland poet, speech pathologist and mother, with an undergraduate degree in linguistics, a Master of Speech Pathology and postgraduate studies in autism. Susan has a love of all arts and has a particular interest in poetry. She is passionate about language, communication and expression through the arts. Susan Venz’s first published poetry collection Paper Boats is an intimate reflection on life, friends, family and nature. Susan feels a deep connection to wilderness, to her past and to the special people in her life. She relishes in the awe of small, private moments and uses poetry as a creative kaleidoscope through which to view everyday life. Susan writes about the melancholic, the light and the lovely, with a keen appreciation for the full breadth of the human experience.

Anne Elvey is a poet, editor and researcher, of Irish, Scottish and English descent, currently living on unceded Bunurong Country. Her most recent poetry collections are Intents (Liquid Amber Press, 2025), Leaf (Liquid Amber Press, 2022) and Obligations of Voice (Recent Work Press, 2021). (C)loud is forthcoming from Palaver Press. Her work spans ecological poetry and poetics, environment and social justice, and unsettling settlerdom. Her most recent academic book is Reading with Earth: Contributions of the New Materialism to an Ecological Feminist Hermeneutics (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2023). Anne was inaugural managing editor of Plumwood Mountain journal until 2020.

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