Ekphrastic poetry with Cheryl Leavy

Next date: Saturday, 02 May 2026 | 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM

Learn how art, poetry and observation can create vivid descriptions that explore memory.

As you immerse yourself in the artworks, award-winning poet and writer Cheryl Leavy will guide you through the process of observing, recording thoughts and experiences to create a poem.

Cheryl will dispel myths about poetry writing and demonstrate how meaning is made through her own communal practice.

About the facilitator

Cheryl Leavy is from the Kooma and Nguri nations in western and central Queensland. Working across non-fiction, poetry, and children's literature, Cheryl’s first book, Yanga – Mother, carries a powerful backstory honouring the Stolen Generations. Yanga - Mother was shortlisted for a 2025 Australian Book Industry Award and as a Work of State Significance in the Queensland Literary Awards.

Cheryl was recently announced as the 2026 winner of Australia’s most prestigious award for single poem - the Peter Porter Poetry Prize. In 2022, Cheryl was awarded the prestigious Oodgeroo Noonuccal Prize for Indigenous Poetry and has since been commissioned by Camerata (Queensland’s chamber orchestra), the Institute of Modern Art and the Queensland Art Gallery. She was the 2025 Queensland Museum Fellow and received a Queensland Writer's Fellowship in 2024. Cheryl's first poetry collection, Mudhunda - The Song Country, will be published by UQP next year.  

Caboolture Regional Art Gallery is open from Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM.

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Location

Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, 4 Hasking Street, Caboolture, 4510., View map