⚡VOLTA is co-presented monthly by Queensland Poetry and Brisbane Square Library, bringing you electric poetry, spoken word, and the unexpected.
VOLTA will be held on Friday 3 November 2023 and features Jarad Bruinstroop, Jena Woodhouse and Nausicaa.
Volta will be held in-person in the Tiered Theatrette at the Brisbane Square Library, and online via Instagram Live.
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IN-PERSON
Volta will be held in-person in the Tiered Theatrette at the Brisbane Square Library.
BOOK YOUR FREE TICKET BELOW.
Accessibility: This venue is wheelchair accessible.
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ONLINE
Can’t make it to Volta? No need to book a ticket - simply tune into our Instagram Live from 6pm AEST.
Didn’t catch the performance or want to revisit it? All our live videos will be archived on our Instagram Profile.
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PERFORMERS/POETS
Jarad Bruinstroop:
Jarad Bruinstroop’s debut poetry collection, Reliefs, won the 2022 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and is available now through UQP. In 2023, he won the Val Vallis Award. His work has appeared in The Best of Australian Poems, Meanjin, Overland, HEAT and elsewhere. He holds a PhD in Creative Writing from QUT where he also teaches.
Photo credit: Torrey Atkin.
Jena Woodhouse:
Jena Woodhouse has 12 published books and chapbooks spanning poetry, adult and children’s fiction, translation. Her most recent poetry publication is Bitter Oranges: a memoir of Athens (chapbook, Picaro Poets), reflecting on ten years living and working in Greece. A major collection, Wild Country of Time is forthcoming from Ginninderra.
Photo credit: Anna Jacobson.
Nausicaa:
Poems and myths set into musical motion.
Nausicaa has performed alongside the likes of Tiny Ruins, Angie Hart (Frente) and Ben Salter and premiered works at Dark Mofo, the Woodford Folk Festival, and the Queensland Poetry Festival.
The brainchild of Simon Munro, Nausicaa grew out of his work as an arts producer with poetry/music project Borrowed Verse.