Eleanor Jackson is a Filipino Australian poet,
performer, arts producer, cyclist, writer, gal
about town, feminist, freewheeler, and
friend. One day, she is going to be an
ideas curator. Which basically
means, she will tell you
exactly what she thinks.
Until then, you’ll have
to read between
the lines.
on joy and sorrow – QPF series
It would be completely remiss not to send you along to the beautiful Queensland Poetry Festival website today.
For not only is the QFP site a beautiful repository of information about the festival, which is held each year in August, but it also features this week a lovely interview with my partner in rhyme, Betsy Turcot.
Outside of this collaboration, Betsy is a fine writer and performer in her own right, whose commitment and generosity as a creator have been a repeated source of inspiration. Back in the day, Betsy was a “poetry blind date”, someone that someone said I should get in touch with. And, lo and the be Holden, a couple of years later I am honoured to call her a friend.
The interview, which forms a part of a series that QPF is running with Queensland poets, considers the heartbreaking and finely wrought ways in which poetry and joy and sorrow intersect.
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