Tony Mutton is a dark, um, “horse”.

Blogging furiously at Darkarsean, Tony’s work is muscular and clear, sometimes even a bit hard, but it’s more like the hard of a calloused palm than anything more sinister.

Writing for almost four years now, Tony has been an active presence in Brisbane’s grassroots poetry community, reading at venues such as Speed Poets, Jam Jar Poetry Slam, the Woodford Poetry Breakfast and Kurilpa Poets. He was a “words of honour” feature at the Words or Whatever Women’s Showcase in 2012 and received an encouragement award at the Urban Country Music Festival Bush Poetry Comp. His work has been published in Plum Tree Books – Poetry Anthologies including: Song of Sahel, The Butterfly Effect and All the Lonely People.

As organiser of the Poetry Open Words event, Tony’s has focused on supporting other new writers and showcasing “dead poets” with a connection to Queensland.

Tony will be performing as part of the spoken word program at Brisbane Emerging Art Festival 2013