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David Stavangeris a poet, performer, editor, cultural producer and lapsed psychologist. In 2013 he won the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for The Special (UQP), which was awarded the 2015 Wesley Michel Wright Poetry Prize. He was co-director of the Queensland Poetry Festival from 2015 to 2017, and has been at the forefront of founding poetry slam in Australia. Also known as the Green Room-nominated spoken word artist Ghostboy, he lives between the stage and the page. Anne-Marie Te Whiu is a cultural producer and editor. She was co-director of the Queensland Poetry Festival from 2015 to 2017, and is co-editor of Verity La's spoken word stream 'Slot Machine' and 'Discoursing Diaspora'. Anne-Marie is an emerging Maori-Australian poet, weaver and experienced theatre practitioner, having studied a Double Major in Drama and Literature and winning several short play awards as a director. Born and raised in Brisbane, she is a proud descendant of the Te Rarawa tribe in Northland, Aotearoa.
'A powerful body of work, illuminating, wide-reaching, and full of voices that remind us to be part of something bigger than ourselves.' -Kate Tempest 'Solid Air gives us all that spoken word might give, which is immensity itself: confronting, radical, disconcerting and often reassuring that so many poets have the guts to speak out, to bring us to their words, to change for the better.' -John Kinsella
