Introducing: The Red Corner
The Red Corner is a place for Australian spoken word, presented with support from Going Down Swinging and curated by Alicia Sometimes.
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The Red Corner is a place for Australian spoken word, presented with support from Going Down Swinging and curated by Alicia Sometimes.
Continue readingAlabama-raised Ebony MonCrief is a writer, performance poet, speaker and MC.
Continue readingVan Winkle has that kind of voice you believe instantly, the kind of poems you want to curl up with and the kind of sentence you would tear out and stick on your wall.
Continue readingThe Official Bio Anis Mojgani is a two-time National Poetry Slam Champion and winner of the International World Cup Poetry Slam. A TEDx Speaker and former resident of the Oregon Literary Arts ‘Writers in the Schools’ program, Anis has performed…
Continue readingThe Official Bio Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz is the author of six books of poetry (including Dear Future Boyfriend, Hot Teen Slut, Working Class Represent, Oh, Terrible Youth and Everything is Everything) as well as the non-fiction book, Words In Your…
Continue readingThe first time I saw Alia Gabres perform was onstage at a live-to-air 3RRR performance with Dave Graney, Mark Seymour and Jane Clifton in 2011. Alia was dynamic, powerful, and one of those indelible artists that command attention immediately.
Continue readingAlicia Sometimes chats to performance poet and recent Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship recipient Candy Royalle. The Official Bio Candy Royalle is a performance artist and poet who fuses cinematic storytelling, poetry and unique vocal rhythms with confronting, political and heart-thumping…
Continue readingAlicia Sometimes seeks out the most exciting spoken word artists in the land for your reading/listening pleasure. The Official Bio Jacky T is a performance poet/MC, writer and producer. Originally from country Victoria, he wears city life like an itchy…
Continue readingQueensland Poetry Festival: spoken in one strange word is on from August 23 to 25. The festival has many illuminating and vibrant poets in its line-up and Sachiko Murakami is one of them. She will be running workshops and performances…
Continue readingAlicia Sometimes seeks out the most exciting spoken word artists in the land for your reading/listening pleasure. THE OFFICIAL BIO Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian writer and slam poetry champion of Afro-Caribbean descent. She is the author of the…
Continue readingAlicia Sometimes seeks out the most exciting spoken word artists in the land for your reading/listening pleasure. THE OFFICIAL BIO Omar Musa won the Australian Poetry Slam in 2008 and the Indian Ocean Poetry Slam in 2009. He has released…
Continue readingAlicia Sometimes seeks out the most exciting spoken word artists in the land for your reading/listening pleasure. THE OFFICIAL BIO Emilie Zoey Baker is a published award winning poet and slam champion. She has performed poetry all around the world,…
Continue readingAlicia Sometimes seeks out the most exciting spoken word artists in the land for your reading/listening pleasure. THE OFFICIAL BIO Luka Lesson is a spoken word and hip-hop artist cut from a different cloth. Writing rap music for nine years,…
Continue readingPoetry, first of all, was and still must be, a musical form. It is speech musicked. It, to be most powerful, must reach to where speech begins, as sound, and bring the sound into full focus as highly rhythmic communication….
Continue readingCold Was the Ground dark was the night Blind Willie Johnson huffs in my ears weeping into God. How easy to loop the past into a soundtrack, light digestion & here’s Willie, scratching life into the air carving out sight…
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