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“Saturday
night [as part of the Brisbane Writers Festival] saw a hectic
performance by Mandy Beaumont's troop of "Perfect Match"
poetry performers at the Brisbane Powerhouse. Despite the ever popular
Chaser boys performing next door, this enjoyable exercise in kitsch had
the sizable crowd in stitches”. |
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“Combining poetry and stage play is not always a marriage made in
heaven, but for Brisbane Poet Mandy Beaumont the union was always meant
to be”. |
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“It
makes poetry a bit gritty and real and brings it to the punters”. |
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“She (Beaumont) is not afraid to use space, both in the words and in
the presentation, nor is concerned with structured rhyming and stanza,
allowing the reader to at once take at face value or interpret as
they wish. ‘The Regular correspondence of a Love Affair With Words’
is a solid debut”. |
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“Evocative, urban poetess” |
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“Beaumont's
writing is gritty and beautiful. It seeps from the page and gets into
the veins. Quite simply, it's contagious!" Graham
Nunn – Queensland Poetry Festival
Director August 2004 |
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Local
poetic Goddess Mandy Beaumont "The Regular Correspondence of a Love
Affair With Words" takes you on a gastronomic trip of images and
phrases. |
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“I
love this woman’s voice. Its strength and unique way she broaches
topics from the mundane to the masochistic makes this a collection worth
repeated readings" Sharon
Dunne - Editor, Writing Queensland. |
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"I'm not much of a reader...usually my attention is projected
towards imagery and visual aesthetics - but with Mandy Beaumont's words,
I couldn't take my eyes off the pages... Simply stunning." |
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“On the page she can be delicate, painfully beautiful, evocative and
overtly romantic. Her unorthodox phrasings and even her paragraphs are
erratic, artistic, with purpose. This is a book I will pick up now and
then forever. This is a book that I can relate to and this is a book
that I rate with a large piece of my heart”. |
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Brisbane’s “girl of the moment”, Mandy Beaumont was next. Mandy
gave us a taste of “The Regular Correspondence of a Love Affair With
Words”. In front of a mic Mandy oozes appeal. She works the crowd
over, teasing them with images of sexual innocence and then hitting them
hard with her seedy stories from the underbelly of the street. Her words
seem contagious…. They get under your skin and seep into your veins.
As a performer she is irresistible and as a poet she |
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