In person

Zenobia Frost captivates with original poems and the occasional cover. In 2012, she toured with the Queensland Poetry Festival Regional Roadshow, after making her national debut with the Arts Queensland Touring Poets Program in 2009. She has performed poetry in places as varied as Rockhampton (Qld), Wisconsin (USA), and Germany’s Black Forest.

Reviewing for Stilts, Aimee Lindorff writes: “They call you a graveyard poet. It’s a sombre title… But you bound to the mic in teal with your purple hair, and read with a fervour that belies your designation. Your dress is amazing and your prose is striking. A certain melancholy mixed with longing and nostalgia. Voices of the dead fill Riverbend like mist. It’s a celebration, a lament painted in the warm glow of memory. Your prose is honest, open, and urgent, and there’s something intoxicating about the spaces you paint.”

Upcoming gigs

Performance highlights

Queensland Poetry Festival (2007, 2009–11, 2013–14, 2016)
Brisbane Writers Festival (2005, 2013 and 2016)
Poets Up Late, Wynnum (2015, 2017)
Black Forest Writing Seminars Showcase, Freiburg (2015)
National Young Writers Festival, Newcastle (2014)
Wunderkammer: The launch of Salt and Bone and Curio (2014)
RUCKUS! New Globe Theatre (2014)
Riverbend Poetry Series 1, Riverbend Books (Feb. 2013)
FreeVerse: Page Vs Stage, State Library of Queensland (Oct. 2012)
Queensland Poetry Festival Regional Roadshow (2012)
From a Dying Land, Crossbows Festival (2012)
SPOKEN, State Library of Queensland (2012)
Passionate Tongues, Melbourne (2009, 2011)
Arts Queensland Touring Poets Program (2009)
Tasmanian Poetry Festival (2009)
Brisbane Writers Festival (2006)

Emceeing

Queensland Poetry Festival (2007–2012, 2014, 2016)
Postmodern Picnic, Brisbane (2008)
Gentlemen’s Tea Party (2009)