Upcoming Events
Reserve Sunday 24 August 2025 in your diary for the launch of Beth Clapton’s debut poetry collection — STILL POINT — published by Calanthe Press.
Beth Clapton lives in Sydney, which she acknowledges is on the unceded lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. She has an abiding love of words and a fascination with how memory and geography intersect, often encountering her earlier self on street corners and riverbanks where she enjoys taking a moment to reflect. Beth has spent several joyous years discovering her poetic voice and was delighted to be runner up in the Calanthe Collective Prize for Unpublished Poetry in 2023, and the winner in 2024.
Beth’s poetry is imbued with still points, moments that, in her own words, “give you time to hear yourself, to choose your response.” Beth brings a deeper emotional awareness to those moments that can “signal change, the onset of a new adventure, the closing of a chapter, or simply breathing room in the maelstrom of modern life.”
STILL POINT will be launched by Queensland poet David Terelinck at the Zamia Theatre on Tamborine Mountain on 24 August 2025. Please arrive at 2pm for a 2.30pm start.
Following the launch there will be a Q&A between Beth and Calanthe Press editor, Jock Macleod. Beth will also be signing copies of STILL POINT at the conclusion of the launch.
Please RSVP to calanthecollective@gmail.com
Poets@Yuulong (Maddy Dale)
6:00pm arrival for 6:30pm start
Private home, outdoors, Tamborine Mountain
Address supplied upon booking
Wet weather alternative will be notified (if appropriate)
Entry by donation at gate
Bookings essential, book at calanthecollective@gmail.com (enquiries Geoff Cartwright, 0416 217 005)
BYO drinks, glasses and snacks (no catering available)
Ideally, bring a folding chair or a picnic rug
Maddy’s feeling for the natural world is palpable in every word she writes, which hit their target so well. Moving, surprising and very accessible, her poetry is both haunting and everyday in its themes and style. Now Brisbane-based, Maddy spent her formative years on Tamborine Mountain. She holds First Class Honors and a Masters of Philosophy from the University of Queensland, where she also tutors in creative writing. Her poetry manuscript Eleven Portraits of Drowning has been shortlisted from the Dorothy Hewett Award and the Thomas Shapcott Award.
Poets' Morning (Alice MacKinnon)
Where: Centre for Regenerative Arts, 6-8 Knoll Rd, Tamborine Mountain
Price: Entry by donation at door
Bookings essential, book at: https://events.humanitix.com/poets-morning (enquiries Geoff Cartwright, 0416 217 005)
BYO coffee and brunch (no catering facilities available)
Compere: Margy Rose
Music: Bella Acapella and others
A surfer, diver and bushwalker, Beechmont resident Alice Iona MacKinnon (aka Sally MacKinnon) has been crafting poetry that tells stories: of landscape, the body, tragedy, trauma, hope. As Guest Poet she’ll take us on a journey through her recent work. Blackboard poets are encouraged to choose poems loosely relating to Alice’s overall themes.
Part of a weekend-long event ‘In Consideration of Trees’, showcasing the visual artwork of Bronwyn Davies.