The Dark and the Light - Poet's Session
Shastra Deo + Rebecca Jessen + Zenobia Frost
Queensland Terrace, State Library of Queensland
Poetry
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#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Three of Brisbane’s leading poets bring to light the contrasting moods in each other’s works. Inspirational, complex, dark, and also vibrant and light, these artists share their insights.
#Artists
Shastra Deo
Shastra Deo was born in Fiji, raised in Melbourne, and lives in Brisbane. She is currently completing her PhD in Creative Writing at The University of Queensland; her project is focused on nuclear waste burial, languages of warning, and the video game Final Fantasy XV.
Shastra's work deals with the intersection of trauma, memory, and selfhood, with a particular focus on corporeality, embodiment, and strange species of fish.
Her first book, The Agonist, won the 2016 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and was published by UQP in 2017.
Rebecca Jessen
Rebecca Jessen is the award-winning author of Gap (UQP, 2014). In 2017 her poem (after) HER: dating app adventures was shortlisted for the Arts QLD Val Vallis Award. In 2015 Rebecca won the QLD Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award. Her writing has been published in Overland, The Lifted Brow, Cordite, Meanjin, Rabbit, Tincture Journal and more.
She is currently working on a poetry collection about queer utopias.
Zenobia Frost
Zenobia Frost is a poet based in Brisbane. She won the 2018 Val Vallis Award for her poem “Reality On-Demand”. Her new collection, After the Demolition, is forthcoming with Cordite Books.
