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Perth Poetry Club has wonderful poets Kate Wilson & Gaye McPhie
this Saturday 23rd August, 2pm-4pm, at The Moon Café, 323 William Street Northbridge and on ZOOM.
Kate Wilson wrote her first poem at age seven while perched on the garage roof at her family home in Donnybrook. When she discovered poetry slams in 2008, she began shouting her poems from the rooftops. Kate has travelled to many events over the years, busting out rhymes in bookshops, bars, barns, and backyards. She has also lent her voice to unique collaborations with Perth choirs and Busselton dancers and has been a guest at festivals like Newstead Live in Victoria where she won the Troubadour Foundation Prize in 2020. Kate's passion is to create a spark of recognition in her audience — a moment where the listener's heart says, "Me too! I'm not alone."
When Gaye McPhie discovered Harriet the Spy at age nine, she was inspired to keep a secret notebook of poems and musings under her mattress. Later, her love of writing became homogenised in the corporate world where she wrote press releases and marketing copy for many years. She left the sector longing to express poetry from her heart. In 2019 she joined Jaya Penelope’s Women’s Writing Circle; in this body are gardens, and found home. As an adoptee of the Forced Adoption Era, she writes poetry to understand her experience, especially themes of loss, exile and connection, and how love and beauty live alongside grief. In 2024 she was the winner of the KSP Writer’s Centre’s Annette Cameron Encouragement Award for her poem Timelines and has been longlisted in WA Poet’s 2025 Poetry d’Amour for her poem Knead.
It is Gig No. 800 – pizzas at half-time to celebrate
Please join us to celebrate poetry,
this Saturday, 23rd August 2025, 2pm to 4pm WST (GMT+8hr) Perth Australia.
Kate Wilson & Gaye McPhie + open-mike,
at The Moon Café, 323 William Street, Northbridge & on Zoom
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84254037443
It is Gig No. 800 – pizzas at half-time to celebrate
The backroom of The Moon is properly air-conditioned, and it is a great space to be wherever you are on a Saturday afternoon 2pm-4pm WST, because in weeks to come, we have:
23-Aug-25
Kate Wilson & Gaye McPhie + open-mike,
Gig No. 800 – pizzas at half-time to celebrate
30-Aug-25
Launch of Lakshmi Kanchi’s Imagick - Indrani Perera (speech), Lakshmi Kanchi, Rashida Murphy, Sarita Slater, Asha Rajan &
Festival Poets
Toby Davidson, David Stavanger, Karen Louise, Valentina Macias
& Sari Benett + limited open-mike
MC’d by Christine Della Vedova, 2-minutes max per open-miker
6-Sep-25
Afeif Ismail & Vivienne Glance + open-mike
13-Sep-25
Christine Della Vedova + open-mike
… All with open mike, not to be missed …