⚡VOLTA is co-presented monthly by Queensland Poetry and Brisbane Square Library, bringing you electric poetry, spoken word, and the unexpected.
VOLTA: AUGUST 2021 features Rebecca Cheers, Anna Jacobson and Stuart Barnes, and and will be held ONLINE, livestreamed simultaneously on the Queensland Poetry and Brisbane Libraries Facebook pages.
Tickets/bookings are no longer needed for this event.
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REBECCA CHEERS writes poetry, essays, zines and plays. She recently completed a research Masters at QUT, researching feminist poetic biography. Her work has been featured in Voiceworks, Overland, Blue Bottle Journal, the Brisbane Anywhere Festival, and in the 2018 anthology The Conspirator.
ANNA JACOBSON is a writer and artist from Brisbane. Amnesia Findings (UQP, 2019) is her first full-length poetry collection, which won the 2018 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. In 2020 Anna won the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing, was awarded a Queensland Writers Fellowship, and was shortlisted in the Spark Prize.
STUART BARNES: Stuart Barnes’s first book Glasshouses (UQP, 2016) won the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and was shortlisted/commended for two other awards. With Quinn Eades he guest-edited Cordite’s TRANSQUEER issue and with Charmaine Papertalk Green Rabbit’s FORM issue. Recently he completed his second poetry collection. Twitter/Instagram: @StuartABarnes.