If you’ve ever wondered what makes an activist active (and tall), now’s your chance to find out. Harry Laing is a poet, comic performer and sometime activist, approx. 196 cm in height. Once upon a time he was arrested during a protest in Monga Forest and thus gained a modicum of credibility. Harry has written and performed 5 one-man shows, the most recent of which ‘Away With The Birds’ he hopes to tour nationally this year. ‘Ship Of Fools: A Broadside’ his satirical ballad, whose target was the previous government, was a hit of the 2007 Two Fires Festival.

Have you an ‘inner mermaid’?  Let Nicola Bowery entice you (regardless of your gender!) with her strangely compelling and poetic tale of a mermaid’s journey on land. “All of nature is the author’s companion on the journey. I don’t know of any other contemporary poet in Australia who has engaged so intimately with the elements, with the natural forces, the sun, moon, forest, water.” (Louise Crisp, guest poet of 2007 Two Fires.) The sea-maid’s tale comes from Nicola’s second collection of poems, Goatfish. Her first book, Bloodwood, was an Australian Poetry Book Club selection.

Uncle Max Harrison is a Yuin lawman, healer and educator who has worked extensively, both across NSW and internationally, in telling the stories of his people and their country.