Poet features in festival
Pearl Beach poet Ms Gillian Telford featured as a guest artist when the Gosford Regional Gallery took part in the Sydney Writers' Festival earlier this month.
The event titled Poetica: Five Arrivals encompassed two performances on May 21 and 23 exploring issues of voyage, displacement and migration.
The performances included digital installations, live music and poetry readings in several languages.
Ms Telford featured with fellow artists Solange Kershaw, Erik Gunzel, Francoise Angenieux and Kevin Duncan.
Ms Telford began writing poetry in 2001 and since then has become a sensation amongst all poetry enthusiasts.
Her work has been published regularly in literary journals such as Blue Dog, Five Bells, Island and Poetrix among many others and short listed in national competitions including the 2004 Henry Kendall Award and the 2007 Tom Collins Poetry Prize.
Press release, 17 May 2010
Alexandra Hornby, Gosford Council