Reserve Sunday 24 August 2025 in your diary for the launch of Beth Clapton’s debut poetry collection — STILL POINT — published by Calanthe Press.   

Beth Clapton lives in Sydney, which she acknowledges is on the unceded lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. She has an abiding love of words and a fascination with how memory and geography intersect, often encountering her earlier self on street corners and riverbanks where she enjoys taking a moment to reflect. Beth has spent several joyous years discovering her poetic voice and was delighted to be runner up in the Calanthe Collective Prize for Unpublished Poetry in 2023, and the winner in 2024.  

Beth’s poetry is imbued with still points, moments that, in her own words, “give you time to hear yourself, to choose your response.” Beth brings a deeper emotional awareness to those moments that can “signal change, the onset of a new adventure, the closing of a chapter, or simply breathing room in the maelstrom of modern life.”  

STILL POINT will be launched by Queensland poet David Terelinck at the Zamia Theatre on Tamborine Mountain on 24 August 2025. Please arrive at 2pm for a 2.30pm start.  

Following the launch there will be a Q&A between Beth and Calanthe Press editor, Jock Macleod. Beth will also be signing copies of STILL POINT at the conclusion of the launch.  

Please RSVP to calanthecollective@gmail.com