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For up-to-date information, visit the
Tasmanian Poetry Festival's website.
The Tasmanian Poetry Festival,
an annual event held in Launceston each October, was founded and for seventeen years
directed by Tim
Thorne [from 1985 to 2001]. For the past few years, Cameron Hindrum has been the
festival’s director.
Last year's festival ran from Friday 2nd to
Sunday 4th October 2009, with guests Ross Donlon, Kevin Gillam, Rob Morris, Nathan Curnow,
Zenobia Frost, Jacquie Williams, Kristin Hannaford, Robin Archbold, and Tasmanian locals
Ron Moss and Sarah Day.
References to previous Tasmanian Poetry
Festivals - culled mainly from back issues of famous reporter - can be found
below: