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Queensland. Since 2007 QP has been an incorporated community organisation with a dedicated and growing audience, with a strong tradition of volunteerism and known increasingly for celebrating poetry in all of its forms. QP currently has office space under a tenancy agreement with the Queensland Writers Centre, in the State Library of Queensland.
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residency. Every detail was covered. I encountered a generosity of spirit in the sponsors and participants of each workshop, performance, and of course, the community. It was apparent that the
Queensland Poetry Festival had made a beloved place in the community, through the efforts of its leadership and staff. They have a committed fan, in me.
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Queensland Poetry includes a Management Committee, a General Manager, Artistic Director, Events and Marketing Manager and program coordinators.. In 2016 Queensland Poetry was successful for the first time in applying for Organisational Funding for Operational/Staff costs for
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Not only poetry, but also poets, have enjoyed special status. They have been credited with exceptional insight into our existence, coupled with great expressive powers ... for twenty years, the
Queensland Poetry Festival has been a wonderful champion of the enormous cultural wealth that resides in
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I have travelled to festivals, performances and residencies all over the world, from the U.S., to Europe, to India, to South
America. The Queensland Poetry Festival residency remains one of the most memorable. I was warmly welcomed and taken care of from even before I arrived, then throughout the
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During the Covid pandemic (2020, 2021), Queensland Poetry switched to providing a number of online programs in lieu of a live festival. In June 2022, the first live festival was held in
Brisbane/Meanjin with the theme 'Emerge'. It was the first festival held live since 2019.
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and the XYZ Prize for
Excellence in Spoken Word (introduced in 2015), the Arts Queensland Poet in Residence, SlammED! and the Australian Poetry Slam QLD Heats & Final. Queensland Poetry also partners on programs such as the monthly VOLTA event at Brisbane Square Library.
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The 2016 festival saw the emergence of a strong commitment to including more diverse and
Indigenous voices including the creation of the Indigenous Poet in Residence (Sam Wagan Watson 2016 and Ali Cobby Eckermann 2017) & the inaugural
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