The Voyage, featuring James Sherlock

April 17, 2009July 10, 2022 / Zenobia Frost / 4 Comments

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 3^rd 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!

April 12, 2009March 1, 2013 / Zenobia Frost / Leave a comment

contraverse poster

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

That’s right. The 15^th 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

April 12, 2009March 1, 2013 / Zenobia Frost / Leave a comment

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.

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!

April 8, 2009March 1, 2013 / Zenobia Frost / 4 Comments

The Voyage

a poetry chapbook concerning the adventures of
Zenobia Frost

with illuminations by

Bettina Walsh

launches at 7pm, May 3^rd

!Metro Arts Basement
109 Edward Street, Brisbane

featuring James Sherlock on jazz guitar

$5 entry / free drinks and nibblies

Presented by SweetWater Press

Contraverse

April 4, 2009April 6, 2009 / Zenobia Frost / Leave a comment

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

March 29, 2009March 1, 2013 / Zenobia Frost / 2 Comments

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.

Take a look at this!!

March 8, 2009March 1, 2013 / Zenobia Frost / Leave a comment

I’m extraordinarily pleased to say that local artist Bettina Walsh has (as expected) come up with the goods when it comes to glorious cover art. Here’s one of the cover options for The Voyage, my chapbook due out in April (SweetWater Press):