Ross Donlon is winner of two international poetry prizes and the Launceston Cup, of which he is very proud. Other awards include the Dorothy Hewett Flagship Fellowship. He has five books of his poems published (including Sjovegen – The Sea Road – translated into Norwegian – and is co author of Kickstarting Poetry Books 1 & 2 (Blake) with Tric O’Heare. He is represented in numerous anthologies both in Australia and the UK. He has read his work at many poetry festivals in Ireland, England and Scotland as well as other readings in Norway and at universities in Poland and Romania. Ross is convenor of Poetry from Agitation Hill and is publisher of Mark Time Books.
Hear Ross at the Festival during guest poet sessions on Saturday morning and, with Steve Brien on guitar, on Sunday morning.
Steve Brien is an acclaimed Sydney Jazz guitar performer and teacher. In 1985 Steve won a study grant that allowed him to study and work in New York for two years. Playing since the 1970s in Australia and the United States, Steve has toured with the likes of James Morrison and Don Burrows.