Poets@Stones: boutique monthly poetry series (November)

Poets@Stones: Queensland's boutique poetry series - live readings by local poets! The final in our 2026 series of curated poetry events is on Thursday 26 November, 6:00pm ***please note earlier than usual start time of 6pm*** Enjoy complementary wine, cheese and chats with Brisbane's local poetry community. Bookings essential - get in early as these free events fill up quickly!

Poets@Stones November program The last poets@stones for 2026 features Stephanie Green, B. R. Dionysius, Francis Boyle and will also feature a tribute reading for the poets, Ron Heard and Geshon (Gary) Maller who lived and wrote poetry in Queensland for many years and who both passed recently. Tribute readers include Ross Clark, Rosanna Licari, Damen O'Brien and others. Schedule5:30pm arrival, wine & cheese 6:00pm event starts 7:30pm event concludes 7:30-8pm book signings. 8pm bookshop closes. Stephanie Green lives on the unceded lands of the Kombumerri peoples in Queensland. Her short fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction essays are widely published in Australian and international journals, including Meniscus, StylusLit, Axon, TEXT, and Live Encounters. Examples of her work appear in anthologies, such as Pratik: Fire and Rain (APWT/Nirala, 2023), The Writing Mind (Recent Work Press, 2023), and The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry (Melbourne University Press, 2020). Stephanie’s most recent collection is Seams of Repair (Calanthe Press, 2023). Her books also include a collection of prose poems, Breathing in Stormy Seasons (Recent Work Press, 2019), and her selected short fiction, Too Much Too Soon (Pandanus, 2006). She has worked as a freelance writer and reviewer, cook, arts administrator, and publisher. Since 2008 she has lectured in Writing at Griffith University. B. R. Dionysius was founding Director of the Queensland Poetry Festival. He has published four collections of poetry, two chapbooks, an artist’s book and a verse novel. His ninth collection, 'Critical State’ was published in 2022. He was shortlisted in the 2013 and 2017 Montreal International Poetry Prize, teaches English, lives in Brisbane and in his spare time watches birds and collects fossils. His tenth poetry collection “Not for Heroics” (Liquid Amber Press) was released in November, and his eleventh poetry collection, “The Eromanga Sea” (Calanthe Press) and his twelfth collection, “Extinction Sonnets” (Walleah Press) are coming out in 2027. Francis Boyle is a Brisbane poet and digital artist. For over two decades, working with fellow poet Rob Morris, he produced the poetry magazine ‘small packages’. This collaboration continues with the multi arts magazine ‘neither/nor’ now approaching its third issue. His film Ophelia at the Gate of Dreams won best poetry film at the Australian Poetry Festival. Ron Heard was a Brisbane based cyclist and poet who worked as a schoolteacher, university tutor, computer programmer, adult trainer and university planning officer. He co-edited the poetry magazine, ‘The Mozzie’ which began in 2002 and is still going to the present day. His collections include ‘River, She-Oak and Wind’ (Post Pressed, 2007) a selected work of poetry, ‘The Dogs of Our Lives: The First Australian Anthology of Dog Poems’ (2004) edited with Gloria B. Yates, and the historical poetic masterpiece, ‘The Shadow of Troy’ (Ginninderra Press, 2011). A recent collection is ‘A Life Deserves Nine Cats (2023) with illustrator Sue Schindler. Gershon Maller was a Melbourne based poet and editor. He chalked his first poems on La Trobe University walls. A good idea until it rained. Author of ‘Night Breathing’’ (1993) and 'Nights in the Gardens of Spain’ (2002), his work continued in Australian and US publications. ‘Rogue Objects’ and ‘This Tangle of Bones’ were works-in-progress. In 2003 Gershon received a major grant from Arts Queensland for a multimedia collection of still-life poems set in Venice and Rome, performed at the Brisbane Writers Festival (2006).

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. Sign up to our Books@Stones newsletter to stay up to date. All our events are free to attend, but bookings are required as seats are limited.