What happens when you combine the potent power of words with the sensual slithering of rope? An evening filled with seductive poetry and the exquisite art form that is Shibari. Come join us for an event that expands your mind and enriches your soul.

Join Team Slama 2024 alongside previous Team Slama alumni in the Poet’s Community Garden as they probe, provoke and explore “What does Poetry Community mean and how does it grow?”

Ballarat Spoken Word convenes on the 1st Saturday of the Month. We invite all forms of writing; Poems / Prose / Songs. Each performer enjoys 5 minutes on the open mic. This edition features Steve Smart.

Cherry Poets is open for business wwith their famous open mic, feature and poet’s book/ zine/ merch table.

Featuring Nadia Rhook

Ashley J Higgs - poet-singer, spontaneously composes with free improvisors Forbes Hawkins and Mito Elias, with special guests." should read, "Ashley J Higgs - poet-singer, spontaneously composes with free improvisors Forbes Hawkins, Abe Dunovits and Mito Elias.

Join us to celebrate the launch of Amanda Anastasi's new poetry collection. Altogether haunting, unsettling and transcendent, 'Taking Apart the Bird Trap' (Recent Work Press, 2024) is set in motion by the sudden loss of a father. We are given a glimpse into the first and second generation migrant experience, domestic dysfunction, the transformative power of grief and the defiance of love.

This September, we will celebrate Girls on Key poetry with fantastic features from Anne Carson and Poetpre, as well as open mic (ten slots available, sign up on the night)

Passionate Tongues Poetry in its 26th year presents musician and poet, Joe Dolce. A very special occasion. This is your opportunity to experience the fine poetry of one of Australia's great performing artists and writers. Hosted by Michael Reynolds, there will be open mic and the famous hospitality of The Brunswick Green.

Lucy Wilks & Leone Gabrielle: We noted that Rabbit was soliciting writing of a collaborative nature thus our sonnets were born. We started with the 'end of the line'. The first poem introduces the method by the way we crafted the poem. The last three words of each line, were all that was given to the writer of the following line, to craft the next line and so on. We are up to sonnet #20.

Poetry and spoken word merging with electronic music. A vibrant mix of writers and performers working with beats, loops, samples and soundtracks. Some may have had the music created for them, some are creating their own sounds. Finally a poetry gig you can dance at!

Why have one launch when you can have three? Come and join these fiery lyric-rockets — who have only recently had their latest poetry collections released into the universe — read and respond to each other’s work in this mini-re-launch. Reload sees Paul Mitchell (High Spirits), Nathan Curnow (A Hill to Die On) and Alicia Sometimes (Stellar Atmospheres) battle it out in a conversational verse trio tête-à-tête. Short, dynamic and sweet - and lots of fun. DJ Hot Wheels (aka Sean M. Whelan) will rocket your launch pads.

Melbourne Morphemes is a community gig based in Melbourne/ Naarm. We are an offshoot of Prompted Prose Facebook group. This event during the Sonic Festival will be featuring Tariro Mavondo. Rallying around the featured artist will be open mic performances.

Join Team Slama 2024 alongside previous Team Slama alumni in the Poet’s Community Garden as they probe, provoke and explore “What does Poetry Community mean and how does it grow?”

Cherry Poets is open for business wwith their famous open mic, feature and poet’s book/ zine/ merch table.

Featuring Lane Milburn

Poetry – like meditation or like prayer – is a form of paying close attention, of listening deeply in a way that allows for a flow between inner and outer, observer and observed. Join poets and meditators Rose Lucas, Tony Mills and Cathy Altmann as they explore the confluences of poetry and contemplative practice and read from their recent books.

Poetic Express presents 3 of Melbourne's favourite poets: Emilie Collyer, Gabrielle Everall and Di Cousens. A great night of poetry in one of Melbourne's finest and friendliest Irish pubs, hosted by Michael Reynolds. There will be open mic, entry is free and there will be a raffle.

Assorted Sporks Festival Edition has the exciting addition of feature perfomer Lane Milburn a fantastic Melbourne poet we're super excited about. The theme for this Assorted Sporks is Reinvention and anyone who wants to perform is encouraged to bring something that relates to the theme.

Experience an unforgettable evening of poetry and storytelling with "Echoes from the Horn," a mesmerizing one-man show featuring Moseffano, a Somali refugee. This unique performance brings to life the vibrant tapestry of Somali culture, history, and the resilience of its people. Through evocative verses and narratives, audiences will journey from the ancient lands of Punt and the bustling streets of Mogadishu to the peaceful countryside and into the heart of the Somali diaspora. Hosted by Jamali Bowden.

The second Sonic Poetry Festival instalment of RUDE POETS, a night of rude, naughty and inappropriate poetry (not necessarily sexual, just finger-up-to-the-establishment kind of poetry). Hosted (and featuring) Koraly Dimitriadis and Jaidyn Luke Attard (Street Poet). Bring your own poem too, share on the open mic.

Launch of P76 Issue 9 - Threading the poetic dialogue of diaspora . With readings from the on-line and physical journal. Featured poets reading on the night include Jeanine Leane / Alison J Barton / Alex Skovron / Ali Alizadeh / Amanda Anastasi / berni janssen / es foong / Nadia Niaz / Peter Bakowski with more to come.

Falling Awake: A Night of Poetry, featuring readings by Naarm guest-poets: Lisa Gorton, Roslyn Orlando, Anders Villani, Ouyang Yu, Catherine de Saint Phalle & Loretta Riach. Named for Alice Oswald’s astonishing collection, Falling Awake will bring us poems that invite poetic attention: poems to wake us, poems to ease us out of winter, poems as oars in uncertain times.

Poets included in Part 2 of the MPU Anthology , Finding My Feet, entitled, "The city, Aphrodite and lessons by weather" will feature their poems, live!

There will also be Open Mic for this section of the anthology.

Cherry Poets is open for business wwith their famous open mic, feature and poet’s book/ zine/ merch table.

Featuring Jaidyn Attard (AKA Street Poets).

Cherry Poets is open for business wwith their famous open mic, feature and poet’s book/ zine/ merch table.

Featuring Jaidyn Attard (AKA Street Poets).