This Saturday 20th October 2018 we have two wonderful poets, Virginia O’Keefe + Bill Jenkins at Perth Poetry Club.
Virginia O’Keefe divides her year between WA and the high country of Victoria which informs her work. She is an ex teacher and has an insatiable curiosity about what makes things tick. She won this year's Creative Connections Prize and gained second place with Creatrix. A big thankyou! She has written poetry and prose forever.
This Saturday 13th October 2018 we have two wonderful poets, Carol Millner + Shae O’Reilly at Perth Poetry Club.
Carol Millner moved to Western Australia from New Zealand in 2005. Carol is an award winning short story writer and poet, as well as a creative writing teacher. Her work has been published in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Spain, as well as online. She has also written community plays, academic essays, reviews, promotional material for the performing arts, public policy documents, historical monographs and research papers.
This Saturday 6th October 2018 we have the re-launch of In the Hollow of the Land by Glen Phillips & friends at Perth Poetry Club.
Glen Phillips, born in 1936 in Southern Cross WA, has taught all his working life with 50 years at ECU and is internationally recognised and published.
He is Director of the International Centre for Landscape and Language at ECU, an Honorary Professor, and patron of KSP Writers’ Centre.
See the notification but expressions of interest are out to perform at the annual History Slam as part of Heritage Perth Weekend 20-21 Oct 2018.
Expressions of Interest close Sunday 7th October.
Contact Heritage Perth website (https://heritageperth.com.au/)
or Glen Hunting
or email perthpoetryclub@gmail.com and mention History Slam in the subject title.
regards
Perth Poetry Club
This Saturday 29th September 2018 we have two wonderful poets, Gary Colombo De Piazzi & Mark Roberts (NSW) at Perth Poetry Club.
This Saturday 15th September 2018 we have three wonderful poets, Michele Woods, Heritier Kasanda & Daniel Hansen at Perth Poetry Club.
This Saturday 15th September 2018 we have the wonderful poet, Dick Alderson at Perth Poetry Club.
This Saturday 8th September 2018 is a special Seamus Heaney gig where we celebrate his poetry
with MC Mitchell Thompson, Rose Van Son, Marion Whelligan & Allan Padgett reading Heaney’s poems and reflecting on his life.
This Saturday 1st September 2018 is our third Mega Open-Mike Event for the year where everyone is a feature at Perth Poetry Club.
Perth Poetry Club holds Mega Open-Mikes 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.
Our feature poets this Saturday 25th August 2018 are the entertaining Sara Morgillo, Catherine Jamison & Ciaran Spearink.
Sara Morgillo is a lover and observer of the wonder and beauty of the natural world. She says “when you jump, not only do you move back towards the earth as you land, but the earth moves towards you“. Her impact in poetry has been at Spoken Word Perth and WA Youth Slams. Sara’s first chapbook “Moth Bones” was published in June this year by Hectic Measures Press.