Perth Poetry Club this Saturday 12th February has wonderful poet Daphne Milne + open-mike at the Moon Cafe.
Daphne Milne writes poems, short stories, novellas, flash fiction. Work published in print/on line in magazines and anthologies internationally. She has won various prizes for her poems and last year was invited to read on BBC local radio.
Perth Poetry Club this Saturday 5th February has wonderful poets Samantha Melia + Karine Suares + open-mike at the Moon Cafe.
Samantha Melia, originally from Dublin, Ireland studied psychology at the University of Ulster. After graduation, she went traveling and settled in the Bronx, NYC for ten years. She relocated to Perth, Western Australia, where she currently lives with her Irish husband and two daughters Realtin and Regan Molly.
This Saturday 29th January we have a Mega Open-mike event at the Moon Cafe.
Perth Poetry Club holds Mega Open-Mikes quarterly as an opportunity for every open-miker to be a feature with 5 minutes (maximum) of performance time. Best to prepare your performance. Try something different, experimental. Edit and refresh your poems. Hone your performance skills. Past events have been memorable for the quality of the poetry and performances.
Please join us to celebrate poetry this Saturday afternoon 2pm - 4pm.
This Saturday 22nd January we have Ben Mason and open-mike at Perth Poetry Club, at THE MOON CAFÉ.
Ben Mason BIO:
Ben’s short fiction has been performed, awarded, and published, including Westerly and Overland (both upcoming). Home Invasion — his collection of short fiction — was long-listed for the 2019 Fogarty Award.
For spoken word he finished 3rd in the 2019 WA leg of the Australian Poetry Slam State Final, won the Margaret River Writers Festival Slam, and has performed in Fringe and Festival shows through Western Australia.
This Saturday 15th January we have Peter Jeffery + Sonya Frossine and open-mike at Perth Poetry Club, at THE MOON CAFÉ.
Hi All
Perth Poetry Club will have a trial Zoom Meeting this Saturday 8th January, 2pm-4pm Perth time using our new meeting ID and Zoom link.
The idea is to catch-up with folk, have a chat, and read some poetry if you wish. (3minutes max. each for the poetry bit).
Thank you everyone at Perth Poetry Club for 2021.
It certainly was a continuing year of poetry, COVID-19 and Zoom.
Thank you to our 1,900+ audience, 860 open-mikers, and 60 features during the year, who helped deliver over 2,200 poems
The 60 features do not include the following multiple features and ad hoc events we had:
Event Features
Recoil 12 Launch ( 11 No.) Thank you Coral Carter
This Saturday 11th December we have Kerry Mulholland and open-mike at Perth Poetry Club (End of Year gig), VIA ZOOM and at THE MOON CAFÉ.
Kerry Mulholland BIO
This Saturday 4th December we have WAPI’s & ANTaR WA’s Blak Ink Poetry Competition and open-mike at Perth Poetry Club, VIA ZOOM and at THE MOON CAFÉ.
The Blak Ink Poetry Competition is supported by ANTaR WA – its theme is Healing Country
The competition is open to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders living anywhere in Australia who have not yet published a collection of poetry.
This Saturday 27th November we have the wonderful poet SoulReserve and open-mike at Perth Poetry Club, VIA ZOOM and at THE MOON CAFÉ.
SoulReserve is an ardent writer and a wistful poet. Her poetry explores love and its tumultuousness, fantasy and zest in nature, and allegories that provoke thought and evoke tender feelings.