Mandy Beaumont

Genre

Skills

 

Mandy Beaumont is a Brisbane based Poet. She has work published in

magazines, journals and newspapers, on the net, in public spaces and

in books. She has won numerous awards for her poetry. Mandy was the

first poet to become a recipient of the Youth Arts Queensland Mentoring

Program and performs regularly at spoken word events around Australia.

By day, Mandy works as a Trade Unionist and by the moonlight she writes

furiously on her balcony with cheap cask wine and rolled cigarettes.

Mandy's first collection of poetry "The Regular Correspondence of a Love

Affair With Words" was launched on Saturday the 9th October 2004 at the

Queensland Poetry Festival. To order the book please select purchase.

Mandy likes simple things, strangers who smile at her, words that move her

and dancing the night away in seedy bars.Mandy is also an active member

of the Brisbane performance poetry group SPEEDPOETS.

Qualifications

Mandy has been the recipient of numerous awards for her work. She has 
run numerous workshops and facilitated many events, with the two most 
recent being the “Young Writers Workshops” at the National Folk Festival 
in Canberra and the State Library of Queensland’s “Have you got the write 
stuff” forum for the Queensland Young Writers Award.

Modus operandi

 

To write works of a high standard and challenge the readers
perceptions of poetry!

 

 

Work examples

Please feel free to read from the book. 
Please feel free to visit my website.
For a free zine that will be posted to you...