Perth Poetry Club this Saturday 18th June has wonderful poet Mar Bucknell and the launch of a fantastic book:
Fifty Words for Sand: a history of live poetry in Western Australia 1829-2021, by Mar Bucknell, published by Eleutheria,
introduced by Peter Jeffery & Bluey Von Steiger plus Open-mike, at THE MOON CAFÉ, on Zoom.
Mar Bucknell is a minimalist. Poet.
Perth Poetry Club this Saturday 11th June has wonderful poets
Scott-Patrick Mitchell (SPM) + SPM Q&A + Paul Kohn (SA) + limited open-mike, at THE MOON CAFÉ, on Zoom.
This is part of the “Love to Read Local” week, sponsored by WritingWA and Copyright Agency Cultural Fund, produced by PPC on behalf of WA Poets Inc.
Perth Poetry Club this Saturday 4th June has wonderful poet Gabriela Antonini + open-mike, at THE MOON CAFÉ, on Zoom.
Gabriela Antonini is a Slovakia-born writer, reader, artist, poet, kickboxer who has too many hobbies and spills her coffee on herself daily. She drinks too much water, cares too much about too many people, and never stops studying.
Perth Poetry Club this Saturday 28th May has wonderful poet Lana Moon + open-mike, at THE MOON CAFÉ.
Lana Moon (she/her) is a non-binary trans poet and parent based in Perth who mostly speaks about whatever is tugging at her heartstrings at any given moment; with a focus on mental health, addiction, love, loss and everything in between. She is emerging from an extended hermit cycle to feature at Perth Poetry Club for the second time.
Please join us to celebrate poetry this Saturday afternoon 2pm - 4pm.
Perth Poetry Club this Saturday 21st May has wonderful poets Virginia O’Keefe & Jonathan Mustard + open-mike, at THE MOON CAFÉ.
Virginia O’Keefe writes in a relatively traditional style. Last year she won the Creatrix Prize for Poetry and The Poetry D'Amour Prize 2021. She has also won the Creative Connections Prize and been twice short listed for the Tom Collins. Her work is published on-line in Creatrix, and various Perth based anthologies.
Perth Poetry Club this Saturday 14th May has wonderful poet Namu + open-mike, at THE MOON CAFÉ.
Note that Kevin Gillam has had to cancel, but the gig goes on with poet, Namu + open-mike
Namu finds it difficult to talk about herself so thought it might be easier to present you with a list of fun facts about her..
Perth Poetry Club this Saturday 7th May has wonderful poets Caroline Reid (SA) & William Morgan + open-mike, via ZOOM and at THE MOON CAFÉ.
hi All, our planned feature Peter Burges has laryngitis, so has had to cancel.
As replacement we are moving our June Mega Open-mike forward to April
Perth Poetry Club this Saturday 30th April has its quarterly Mega Open-mike event, via ZOOM and at THE MOON CAFÉ.
This is 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.
Perth Poetry Club this Saturday 30th April was to have wonderful poet Peter Burges BUT PETER HAS LARYNGITIS,
So it will be MEGA OPEN-MIKE, via ZOOM and at THE MOON CAFÉ.
We have brought forward our Mega Open-mike and have Peter hopefully in June.
Please join us to celebrate poetry this Saturday afternoon 2pm - 4pm.
The venue is The Moon Café, 323 William St, Northbridge and on ZOOM.
Gig details are:
Perth Poetry Club this Saturday 23rd April has wonderful poets Yvonne Patterson & Lola McDowell + open-mike, via ZOOM and at THE MOON CAFÉ.
Yvonne Patterson is NZ born, lives in Perth and enjoys writing poetry and the company of writing communities after a career in psychology and policy in human services. She is the chair of the Out of the Asylum Writers Group and is in the Emerging Writers Program through WA Poets this year.