Splodge (aka Marcus John) (pictured left) is an English-born performance poet, writer, interventionist and artist. He is dynamic. His voice is velvet smooth, yummy as chocolate. His words dance through your senses and take you to surprising places! His poetry has featured on both the written page and nebulous web, but it is best to experience it live…
This Saturday (19th March 2016) is our Mega Open-Mike Event, where everyone is a feature. Perth Poetry Club holds these every quarter, and it is an opportunity for every open-miker to have 5 minutes (maximum) of performance time. Best to prepare your performance.
Saturday 12th March 2016, Amy Hilhorst and Caitlin Mahony!
Two great feature poets this week at Perth Poetry Club.
Poetry workshop with Jackson: Writing and Editing, Sun 10 April
This Saturday is Woman Scream 2016, the Sixth Woman Scream International Poetry Festival in association with WA Poets Inc and the Women Poets International Movement. Your MCs for the afternoon will be Christine Della Vedova and Tineke Van der Eecken.
The format is Open Mike – all welcome
This year’s message is against ancient practices and laws of abuse against women, such as rape, Genital Mutilation, stoning, acid attacks on women and girls.
This Sunday 28th February there is a Garage Sale Fundraiser for Perth Poetry Club and the Viable Human Mob.
This Saturday sees our Recoil-7 zine launch. Some of the favourite features from last year's Perth Poetry Club have contributed poems to this zine.
Come on Saturday to see and hear poets and poems from
Allan Padgett, Craig Rogers, Danny Gunzburg, Gabrielle Everall, indigo eli, Karen Murphy, Mandy Tu, Matt Norman, Meryl Manoy, Peter Jeffery OAM, Robin Daglish, and Shey Marque.
Daniel Oxenburgh (also known as Snoop Bilby) is a multi-talented WA poet.
His poetry has been illustrated by Alexander Hayes and published as a book “Quicksilver” with an exhibition at Gomboc Gallery in 2002. He has written poetry to accompany two photography exhibitions by Angus Skene “Formations Creatures Land and Sea” in 2010 and “Kimberley Expressions” in 2011. You can also read his poetry in The Australian Writers’ Journal 1993,1994 and Uneven Floor 2014.
