Ryan J. Douglas
– Performance, Friday 13th November 2009, Saturday 14th November 2009
Ryan J. Douglas is 21-year-old emerging poet who currently lives in Brisbane but spent his childhood on the Sunshine Coast. Although Douglas labours full-time for a steel castings foundry, poetry is not merely his hobby. Instead he hopes to strengthen both his writing and performance abilities to their definitive level.
In 2008, Douglas attended an open-mic event at the Valley’s Globe Theatre called Love Hate Poetry Racism where he met one of Brisbane’s leading poets Graham Nunn and was able to place his email on the Poetry Express mailing list. After a year of sharing poetry online with his Redbubble account Douglas had more than enough material to compose a manuscript for Smallchange Press the Dream Aint Broken chapbook competition where he was named as a runner up. However his manuscript was re-edited and printed by means of a 32pg chapbook self-publishing offer advertised by Smallchange. Douglas’ goal is to finish his arts degree, which he studies externally, and to fervently add to his debut publication, Mishaps on the lingual dance floor.
Mishaps on the lingual dancefloor is a collection of works from a historian with a sense of humour who just wants to wax lyrical. Fusing popular culture and political statements, Ryan J. Douglas takes shared experiences and hangs them askew for his readers and listeners to enjoy or recoil from at their own discretion.
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Backbone Youth Arts receives financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, and the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its funding and advisory body. |
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