About Us
Founded in 2015, the Poetry on the Move is a fully curated festival run by the International Poetry Studies Institute at the University of Canberra. IPSI’s objectives are to promote poetry as a globally valuable art form through the engagement with international, national and local poetry communities.
The fifth Poetry on the Move festival— Small Leaps, Giant Steps —playfully appropriates Neil Armstrong’s historic utterance as a way of suggesting the festival’s theme this year: exploring how contemporary poetry uses or harnesses knowledge of various kinds, and what kind of knowledge, what kind of seeking, poetry might engage with.
The festival will run from the 17th – 21st October at various locations in Canberra, including our festival hub and festival partner Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centre, our evening readings venue Smith’s Alternative, The National Portrait Gallery and the Canberra Museum and Gallery, where we’ll be holding our poetry symposium.
Our festival draws people to Canberra from across Australia and the world as well as supporting our local poetry community. This reflects the increasing importance of Canberra as a centre for poetry nationally and, we hope, internationally. We look forward to seeing you at the festival and sharing your passion for poetry.
Shane Strange
Director
Director, Poetry on the Move 2019
Shane Strange
Planning and Support
Katie Hayne
Head of IPSI, University of Canberra
Paul Hetherington
Director CCCR, University of Canberra
Tracy Ireland
IPSI chapbooks
Editor, Paul Munden
Design and layout, Caren Florance
Design
Maddy Piggott
Festival Photographer
Kendall Kirkwood
Content Support
Zoe Yapp
Jerzy Beaumont
Volunteers
Alex Henderson
Moog Blyth
Charlotte Anderson
Jane Healey
Jerzy Beaumont
Zoe Yapp
Cat Cotsell
Gemma Nethercote Way
Eliza Bird
Donna Hanson
Work Integrated Learning Program
Ryan Cantrill, Jamie Jugovac, Maddy Piggott, Ronaldo Ronaldo, Ke Bi, Saskia Hapsari, Chistopher Shelley, Lauren Giancomin.
Many thanks to
The office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor , Research and Innovation, University of Canberra, for funding and supporting the festival.