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Hurrah!

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I’m fairly sure yesterday was the best birthday ever.

I had a wonderful time with Nerissa (as Madrigal Maladies) at SpeedPoets earlier in the day. Big thanks to Graham & Jules and the lovely crowd at The Alibi Room.

Cupcakes!

The launch at !Metro Arts in the evening was an absolute dream event. Somewhere between 80 and 100 friends and family came along (we lost count!), the book supply nearly sold out and the punctuative cupcakes were gone in a snap.

Thank you to:

  • Kim and the team at !Metro Arts
  • Ross and Jeff at SweetWater Press
  • Bettina Walsh, artist extraordinaire
  • The writing circle that shall remain unnamed
  • Tiara, our fabulous Merch Girl
  • Rob Morris, grooviest poet in Brisbane and a gent with excellent taste in shoes (thank you, thank you, thank you; they fit perfectly)
  • James Sherlock, jazz-guitar maestro
  • The (other) Frosts for supplying a dozen excellent bottles of wine
  • Caitie for a fine day of baking fun
  • Everyone else involved with catering: Mum, Tina & Jerome, and the family members who helped out
  • Dad, whom I know would have loved to have been there; your messages from afar were much appreciated (and don’t worry, there’s a video!)
  • All the gorgeous people who came along or sent messages of support, especially those old friends who came out of the woodwork to say hullo
  • The crazy ladies and gents who came along to The Pancake Manor (etc.) after the launch, and the waitress who put extra blueberries on our pancakes
  • Those who took photos or video (I look forward to seeing them!)

launch

I had a great time, I couldn’t be happier with the book, and I hope you all enjoy The Voyage (and are amused by my inscriptions, if you had your copy signed).

I’m pleasantly tired today, and intend to spend the rest of the afternoon in my pyjamas, probably watching The Hunger.

With love,
Zenobia

Speedies & The Voyage

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Sunday May 3

SpeedPoets is back for Round 3 of 2009! Be there as Brisbane’s longest running spoken word/poetry event takes over The Alibi Room (720 Brunswick St. New Farm) on Sunday May 3 from 2:00pm – 5:00pm. The May event features the delicate beauty of Ichabod’s Crane: http://www.myspace.com/ichabodscranemusic. This Brisbane ensemble conjures the sounds of horses being ridden on sand and snake tails speeding beneath gumboots…music to be shipwrecked to!

And to celebrate the pending launch of her debut collection ‘Voyage’, Zenobia Frost will perform a short feature set with a special appearance from Madrigal Maladies, her collaboration with Nerissa Rowan, and if that’s not enough for you, winner of The Dream Ain’t Broken Chapbook Competition, Nicola Scholes will also perform a short feature set, showcasing poems from her forthcoming collection.

As always there will also be live sounds from the SpeedPoets poetic riff generator Sheish Money, giveaways, free zines and two rounds of Open Mic. Entry is a gold coin… This is a gig not to be missed!

SpeedPoets, Sunday May 3 @ The Alibi Room, 720 Brunswick St. New Farm. 2:00pm – 5:00pm.

then get along to…

The launch of The Voyage, a poetry chapbook concerning the adventures of Zenobia Frost, with illuminations by Bettina Walsh.

Time: 7:00pm
!Metro Arts Basement
109 Edward Street, Brisbane
Featuring James Sherlock and Rob Morris
$5 entry / free drinks and nibblies
https://zenobiafrost.wordpress.com/

Presented by SweetWater Press

The Voyage, featuring James Sherlock

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As close to a media release as we’ll get:

The Voyage, the debut collection from local poet, Zenobia Frost, will be launched by SweetWater Press on the 3rd of May. Zenobia has won prizes for the poems written during her school years, and more recently has had work published in Going Down Swinging, Small Packages, Stylus, Mascara and Voiceworks. This first collection somehow combines undertones of both The Ancient Mariner and The Hunting of the Snark, while remaining determinedly in her own voice.

The volume is illuminated by Bettina Walsh’s lively drawings.

Zenobia has been described by fans as “a poetic adventurer, hat fetishist and protector of apostrophes who works with the Queensland Poetry Festival and coordinates The Ruby Fizz Society, a light-hearted opportunity to indulge in fine food, fine arts and high-class frivolity”.

Guitarist James Sherlock will be providing jazz grooves, cupcakes will be sprouting up everywhere, and libations will be quaffed during the evening, beginning at 7.00pm, in the !Metro Arts Basement, 109 Edward Street, Brisbane.

Contraverse!

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contraverse poster


NEXT MONTH’S CONTRAVERSE IS THE END OF AN ERA!

That’s right. The 15th of May will be the VERY LAST CONTRAVERSE. To usher out our reading,

we are bringing in some feature-poet new blood. RHYS ROGERS will help mop up our tears (hopefully

of laughter) and MC Brent Downes will be encouraging antics as usual.

AND IN OTHER NEWS:

Not all is lost!

Synaptic Graffiti are looking for NEW SUBMISSIONS for “In Living Memory”, a new multimedia poetry project.

Find out more here:

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=387605083&blogId=481904221

Please pass this notice on to anyone you think would like to participate in either the last two Contraverses’ or “In Living Memory”.

Easter

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Well, the launch is shaping up, and the response insofar has been very positive, which is making me all warm and fuzzy. Thank you.

More shameless self-promotion in the lead-up to May 3rd. I’m posting a portion of my interview with Graham Nunn at Another Lost Shark (thanks G!), in which I blather on about whatever it is my chapbook’s about…

zenobia-frost

SweetWater Press is due to release your debut collection. Tell us about its evolution.

A university manuscript-writing project gave me an excuse to compile a chapbook, so I’ve been working on the collection for a year or so. It’s a quiet little thing, but I quite like the way it’s come to life. It’s funny that you chose the word ‘evolution’, because the chapbook, The Voyage, began as an excuse to bring together all of my oceanic love poems, but somehow it grew legs and crawled onto land with a series of poems about bugs, reptiles, people and finally houses. (However, if we follow the book’s idea of the ‘natural flow’ of evolution to its conclusion, then a tall gin and tonic is the height of civilisation. Maybe I’m onto something?)

The Voyage will be launched on May 3rd (7pm, !Metro Arts Basement), before I set off on a voyage of my own (with a box of books!) to enjoy the Midwest-American summer.metroartslogoonly

You can read the rest of the interview here.

Want More?

Stylus Poetry Journal: Issue 31, October 2008
http://styluspoetryjournal.com/main/master.asp?id=874

Mascara Poetry: Issue 4
http://www.mascarapoetry.com/

I hope you’re having a lovely Easter long-weekend, and I hope you’re as stuffed full of chocolate as I am.

Zenobia
x o x

Finally!

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The Voyage

a poetry chapbook concerning the adventures of
Zenobia Frost

with illuminations by

Bettina Walsh


launches at 7pm, May 3rd

!Metro Arts Basement
109 Edward Street, Brisbane

featuring James Sherlock on jazz guitar

$5 entry / free drinks and nibblies


Presented by SweetWater Press

Contraverse

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Contraverse launches into 2009 at 7pm on the 17th of April, with Round Robin Open Mic and a feature set from Miss Ruby Fizz herself, Zenobia Frost, reading from her upcoming poetry collection. Entry is free.

The Book Nook
Upstairs, 173 Boundary St.
West End, Brisbane

Keep your eye on the Brisbane poetry world at Another Lost Shark.

Contraverse was established by a youthful King Ludwig II during his GAP year in Brisbane in 1863. When he returned to Bavaria in preparation for his reign, Stefanie Petrik and Brent Downes took up the reins of Brisbane’s most eclectic monthy poetry extravaganza. It remains a home for spoken word, music and mischief today.

Zenobia Frost is a poetic adventurer and protector of apostrophes whose creative work has been published in Voiceworks, Going Down Swinging, Small Packages, Mascara and Stylus. She has performed at the Queensland Poetry Festival for three years running, and last year successfully launched The Ruby Fizz Society, a light-hearted opportunity to indulge in fine food, fine arts and high-class frivolity. Her first collection of poetry, The Voyage, will be published by SweetWater Press on May 3rd of this year.

Things I Want to Be when (if) I (n)Ever Grow Up

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  • Writer of The Great Australian Novel, or just the great Zenobian novel—that’d be lovely
  • Owner of a hat museum
  • A tiger trainer
  • Owner of a 50s-themed milk-bar
  • The host of Antiques Roadshow
  • A burlesque dancer / cabaret star / hula hoopist / belly dancer
  • A travelling safer-sex educator
  • A professor of linguistics and mythology
  • A mermaid in the circus freak-show
  • An explorer and anthropologist
  • A fairy at children’s parties, minus the children
  • A drag king
  • A martial arts master
  • A champion swing-dancer
  • The person who gets to name the stars

NEWS:

You can now subscribe to this blog by email! Receive poems fresh in a bottle first thing in the morning–but don’t forget to put the bottle out for recycling at night.

Subscribing would be a great way to keep up with my impending important annoucements! My chapbook will be launched by SweetWater Press on the 3rd of May at Metro Arts. More details to come shortly, but keep the evening of Sunday the 3rd free.

Under a Daylight Moon

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Under a Daylight Moon

Poetry

Zenobia Frost

(previewing her debut volume from SweetWater)

Rob Morris

(further tales from the rock-n-roll after-life)

Music

Vandavan

(in harmony with the spheres)

3.00 – 5.00 pm, fourth Saturday of every month

(starting 28th February)

at Novel Lines Bookshop

153 LaTrobe Tce Paddington

[near the big antiques barn & next to the chocolate shop!]

Free entry

(but Busker’s Rules apply!)

Lunar Module Pilots

Ross Clark (rclarkbard@yahoo.com.au)

& Caroline Hammond (lina.hammond@lizzy.com.au)

Command Module Pilot

Lucy Ashdown

http://www.novellines.com.au

Small Change Press launch: Sean Whelan + Zenobia Frost + Baron Field

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Small Change Press launch
Tattooing the Surface of the Moon by Sean M. Whelan

Small Change Press – http://www.smallchangepress.com.au – QLD’s independent publisher of poetry, spoken word and lyric chapbooks – is about to launch its final title for 2008, Tattooing the Surface of the Moon by acclaimed Melbourne spoken word artist, Sean M Whelan.

Sean is a writer of poetry, prose, visual poetry and works for performance. His work has been widely published in the likes of Going Down Swinging & the upcoming Best Australian Poems 2008. In 2007 he was a special guest of the Utan Kayu International Literary Biennale in Indonesia and has a strong connection to Brisbane through his feature sets at the QLD Poetry Festival, Love Hate Poetry Racism and his upcoming debut at the Woodford Folk Festival. Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, New York City Slam Poet Champion, says:

“Haunting, provocative and lavishly surreal, Sean M. Whelan’s latest collection of poetry is a glittering stand out.”

As part of this live launch experience, Sean will be reading from his new book alongside local lass, Zenobia Frost – one of Brisbane’s fine emerging voices and coordinator of the Ruby Fizz Society, and Baron Field – Brisbane’s own alt-country Johnny Cash.

Date: Thursday 23rd Oct 6:30pm start
Venue: Queensland Writers Centre, Level 2, 109 Edward St, Brisbane
Tickets: $15.00 single or $20 couple (including a signed copy of the book, glass of wine & nibbles).
Bookings: online at http://www.qwc.asn.au or you can call QWC on (07) 3839 1243