Perth Poetry Club has wonderful poets Claire Baker (NSW) & Mike Bravo + west coast launch of Claire Baker’s Paua Shells & Paper Clips + open-mike this Saturday 30th September, 2pm-4pm, at The Moon Café and on ZOOM.
Perth Poetry Club has a Mega-Open mike event this Saturday 23rd September, 2pm-4pm, at The Moon Café and on ZOOM.
Perth Poetry Club holds Mega Open-mike events 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.
Perth Poetry Club has Perth Poetry Festival time and open-mike this Saturday 16th September, 2pm-4pm, at The Moon Café and on ZOOM.
We have fantastic festival poets:
Arianne True (Washington State, USA, Poet Laureate), Juan Garrido Salgado (SA), Indrani Perera (Vic), Jean Kent (NSW),
Lisa Collyer, Caitlin Maling, Talya Rubin, Luoyang Chen
Perth Poetry Club has wonderful poet Jennifer Catalano + open-mike this Saturday 9th September, 2pm-4pm, at The Moon Café and on ZOOM.
Jennifer Catalano
been walking my earthline a long time now through the mud by the river up and down the green black hills over the ocean and around the block a few times
first saw the light from the top of the sandhill surrounded by blue sky and ocean as in the museum in a foreign land
Perth Poetry Club has wonderful poet Ian Lilburne + open-mike this Saturday 2nd September, 2pm-4pm, at The Moon Café and on ZOOM.
It’s been said that lurking inside every arts manager is a frustrated creative.
Perth Poetry Club has wonderful poet Obscure Sparrow + open-mike this Saturday 26th August, 2pm-4pm, ONLY at The Moon Café.
Obscure Sparrow is a wonderful member of our poetry family.
In his own words, “Obscure Sparrow - legal name: Jawed Sadiqi. I write down specifically arranged strings of words to try to capture still moments otherwise transient in breath.”
Perth Poetry Club has wonderful poets, Zan Ross & Jonathan Lewis + open-mike this Saturday 19th August, 2pm-4pm, ONLY at The Moon Café.
Zan Ross has lived in WA for thirty+ years, and is a life-long teacher who identifies as a poet. She has been published in all the usual Australian journals, a few anthologies, on-line zines and publications in America, France and Bulgaria. She has performed her and other people’s work extensively in WA, frequently in NSW and infrequently in SA and Victoria.
Perth Poetry Club has wonderful poet Bron Bateman + open-mike this Saturday 12h August, 2pm-4pm, ONLY at The Moon Café.
Perth Poetry Club has wonderful poets Josephine Clarke & Neil J (BRiLO) Pattinson + open-mike this Saturday 5th August, 2pm-4pm, ONLY at The Moon Café.
Josephine Clarke writes poetry and short stories. She has been a member of Out of the Asylum Writers’ Group since 2005, and was a member of the collective that organised the Fremantle Voicebox poetry readings from 2007 – 2022. Her work has been published in various Australian journals. In 2020 UWA Press published her first collection of poetry, Recipe for Risotto.
Perth Poetry Club has wonderful poets Ayo Busari & LiezilD + open-mike this Saturday 29th July, 2pm-4pm at The Moon Café and on ZOOM.
Their respective BIOs are interesting and illuminating.