Riverbend Poetry Series Event 3 - Tuesday June 24

Queensland Poetry Festival, QLD Writers Centre & Riverbend Books are proud to present their 3rd and final event in this years Riverbend Books Readings. Join us on the Riverbend deck and enjoy the sounds and imagery of award winning poet Nathan Shepherdson, poetics explorer Dr. Jayne Fenton Keane, 2007 Woodford SLAM winner, Robin 'Archie' Archbold and special guest, Kurt Heinzelman (USA).

Date: Tuesday 24 June
Location: Riverbend Books, 193 Oxford St. Bulimba
Time: Doors open for the event at 6pm for a 6:30pm start
Tickets are available through Riverbend Books, for $10 and include sushi and complimentary wine.

To purchase tickets, call Riverbend Books on (07) 3899 8555 or book online.

Seating for the event is limited to 90 people, so get in quick to avoid disappointment!

Author Bios

Kurt Heinzelman is the proud father of Clare, who emigrated this month to Australia in order to live in the Brisbane area with her fiance. He is a poet and translator (most recently of contemporary Turkish poetry). He is judge of the 2009 Cardiff (Wales) International Poetry Prize, the former Executive Curator of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, and Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Texas. His most recent book of poems is Black Butterflies, and he has
another volume forthcoming, called All the Salsas of Calamity.

Robin Archbold (aka Archie) is a Nimbin performance poet whose work covers roadkill, sexual politics, suicide, various channellings from God, romance, strange and perverted philosophy, vasectomy, snake oil, and human idiosyncrasies in general. He's also co-founder of the Nimbin Performance Poetry World Cup, winner of the 2006 Lismore Poetry Cup, runner-up at the 2006 Woodford Poetry Slam, winner of the Pot Poetry Slam at the 2007 Nimbin Mardigrass, Woodford Poetry Slam winner 2007, and NSW finalist in the Australian Poetry Slam 2007 amongst other dubious activities. He reckons he's just starting, but then, he would. Has actually been performing at NSW North Coast venues for eight years. Don't trust anything he says. Audiences are advised to bring cudgels and two sets of underwear (minimum) to any live performance. His first book of poetry and short stories Small Enormous Things was released in August 2007.

Nathan Shepherdson has won the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize twice (2004, 2006), the 2005 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Award, 2006 Newcastle Poetry Prize and 2006 Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award. His first book Sweeping the Light Back into the Mirror was published in 2006 by UQP. A chapbook what marian drew never told me about light published by Small Change Press will be launched in August this year. He lives at the Glass House Mountains in Queensland.

Dr. Jayne Fenton Keane is the author of three poetry books, the recipient of several major national awards and fellowships and a poet who often features at International Festivals. JFK is the author and producer of the award winning website The Stalking Tongue located at www.poetinresidence.com.
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