Poets@Stones: boutique monthly poetry series (November)

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 November, 6pm (note early start time!), featuring four local poets.

Bookings essential - get in early as these free events 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 for this month are Jane Frank, Jenna Woodhouse, Aidan Coleman and Trudie Murrell.

Aidan Coleman is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of English and Creative Writing. He has published two full length collections of poetry which were shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Prize, WA Premier's Book Awards and Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. His third collection ‘Mount Sumptuous’ was published in 2020 by Wakefield Press. He writes reviews and criticism and has co-authored a series of Shakespeare textbooks. Aidan's PhD on the poet John Forbes (1950-1998) was awarded a University of Adelaide Medal for Doctoral Research. He is currently researching and writing a biography of Forbes with funding from the Australia Council for the Arts and Arts South Australia.

Trudie Murrell is a Brisbane-based writer and performer. Her publishing credits include poems in ‘The Green Fuse, Macmillan English 9 for the Australian Curriculum’, ‘Cordite’, ‘Spoken in One Strange Word’ and ‘Brisbane New Voices IV’. Her work has been shortlisted for the ‘’Fish International Poetry Prize and ‘Puncher and Wattmann’s First Book Poetry Prize’. She has been a feature poet at the Brisbane Poetry Festival, Speed Poets, The Brisbane City Libraries poetry and burlesque programme and Triple Z Radio. Her first full length poetry collection, ‘The Dashboard Cartographer’ was recently published by Calanthe Press in October 2025.

Jane Frank is an award-winning Brisbane poet, editor and academic. Her debut poetry collection ‘Ghosts Struggle to Swim’ was published by Calanthe Press in May 2023, and her latest poetry collection 'Gardening on Mars' (2025) is out now. She is the author of two previous chapbooks. Her work regularly appears in journals and anthologies in both Australia and internationally— most recently in ‘The Memory Palace’ (The Ekphrastic Review, Canada, 2024). She likes to run writing workshops, has appeared in a number of poetry podcasts here and in the UK, is Reviews Editor for ‘StylusLit Literary Journal’ and teaches communication and creative industries at the University of the Sunshine Coast’s Moreton Bay campus.

Jena Woodhouse’s personal writing and publishing span many decades, and she is the author/ translator/ co-compiler of twelve book and chapbook publications, including ‘Green Dance: Tamborine Mountain Poems’ (Calanthe Press, 2018), ‘The Book of Lost Addresses: a retrospective’ (poetry chapbook, Picaro Poets 2020), ‘On the Windswept Bridge’ (poetry chapbook, Pocket Poets 2020), ‘News from the Village: Travels in Rural Greece’ (poetry chapbook, Picaro Poets 2021) and, most recently, ‘Bitter Oranges: a Memoir of Athens’ (Picaro Poets Series, 2023). She has received awards for poetry, fiction and writing for children, and her work has appeared in publications in Canada, the US, Ireland and Greece, as well as Australia. Her poems have been shortlisted three times for the ‘Montreal International Poetry Prize’, and five times for the ’ACU Poetry Prize’ and she has read her work, by invitation, around the globe including Germany, France and Greece.

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