“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”.
Courier Mail
“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”.
City News
“It makes poetry a bit gritty and real and brings it to the punters”.
Courier Mail article on Poetry After Dark
“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”.
Q News
“Evocative, urban poetess” .
Queensland Writers Centre
“Beaumont’s writing is gritty and beautiful. It seeps from the page and gets into the veins. Quite simply, it’s contagious!”
Queensland Poetry Festival Director
“Local poetic Goddess Mandy Beaumont “The Regular Correspondence of a Love Affair With Words” takes you on a gastronomic trip of images and phrases.”
Queensland Writers Centre
“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”
Editor, Writing Queensland
“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.”
Mari Hirata – Photographer
“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”.
Tsunami Magazine
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 she is really going places”.
5 Bells.
