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Perth Poetry Club this Saturday 30th May 2026, 2pm-4pm,
has wonderful poets Maggie Van Putten & Kavyamani (UK) + Open-mike
at The Moon Café, 323 William Street Northbridge and on ZOOM.
Maggie Van Putten has been writing all her life. Her poetry has appeared in Creatrix, Gleam: Journal of the Cadralor, and numerous anthologies published by Wild Weeds Press for the Poets@KSP group at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre. She has performed at readings, competed in slams, and her work has been broadcast on ABC audio.
Her poetry blends memory and place with an eye for telling detail, often exploring unusual forms such as the cadralor, haibun, and modern sonnet variations. Alongside her poetry, she has worked as a freelance writer, with pieces published in magazines and a best-selling anthology, and as a technical writer translating complex systems into clear, practical language.
Maggie grew up in New York and lived in San Francisco before settling in Perth, where she enjoys the thriving poetry scene.
Kavyamani (pronounced Kah-vee-yah-man-knee) is an Irish-born, London-based poet, musician, Buddhist and Occupational Therapist. Growing up in Ireland, where poetry, storytelling and song are woven into the culture, words and music course through her blood and bones, even the Kavya of her name, which means poet or poetry in Sanskrit.
She is drawn to life’s liminal spaces — those thresholds and in-between moments where something unexpected and true can arise. The ordinary, extraordinary moments that blow the heart open and reveal our deep rooted interconnectedness and the true nature of things. She writes about identity, heritage, family, the recurrent forces of nature, our inseparability from all life around us and the beauty and mess of it all.
Kavyamani pops up at poetry and spoken word events across London and was warmly welcomed to the Perth Poetry Club last year through fellow poets and friends Cath Drake and Jenny Hetherington. She is delighted to be back to share more of her writing, and hopes to one day share work from her debut pamphlet, quietly taking shape amid the rest of her life.
Join us to celebrate poetry with
Maggie Van Putten & Kavyamani (UK) + open-mike
2pm-4pm this Saturday 30th May 2026
at The Moon Café, 323 William Street, Northbridge & on Zoom
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84254037443
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:
30-May-26
Maggie Van Putten & Kavyamani (UK) + open-mike
6-Jun-26
Gary Colombo De Piazzi & Aileen Hawkes + open-mike
Gary will be reading from his updated/revised edition of ’The Pinnacles; a natural experience’, an exploration of nature through photography and poetry, with book available for purchase at $25, cash or EFTPOS.
13-Jun-26
Mega Open-mike event, 5minute per open-miker, No Zoom
20-Jun-26
Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon + open-mike
… All with open mike, not to be missed …
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ANOTHER ITEM OF NOTE
ONLINE POETRY FUNDRAISER 6 presented by DucK&dASh p0etry 2.o26
and raising funds for teens with cancer (charity Canteen Australia)
Tuesday 16th June
7.30-9.30pm AWST
Online via Zoom
7 poets + open mics
All tickets concession $10, tickets are infinite, if you wish to donate more please buy more.
Ticket sale ends 5pm on the day. Zoom link will be emailed to ticket buyers.
Tickets only at trybooking.com/DMNKA