Slam Poetry
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BEMAC 2024 Season Is Focused On Belonging, Identity & Welcoming Themes
Themed around 'creative confluence' BEMAC have unveiled the first half of their 2024 season, a selection of works and performances underpinned by three core principles:
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5 Delicious Noodle Soups Poet-Rapper Omar Musa Highly Recommends
Malaysian-Australian author, poet, rapper and visual artist, Queanbeyan's Omar Musa is part of the 2022 line-up for the National Folk Festival.
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Solli Raphael Serves Up A Supermassive Slam
Solli Raphael is a precociously talented poet.
The Coffs Harbour local has become a revered slam poet, winning the 2017 National Australian Poetry Slam, all before... -
Kasey Chambers Headlines Central Coast's 2017 Long Jetty Street Festival
Central Coast native, and darling of the country music scene, Kasey Chambers will headline the third annual Long Jetty Street Festival on 19 November.
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5 Types Of People You Can’t Trust According To Ruckus Slam
Ruckus Slam is what happens when poetry slam meets circus meets loud heckling meets wild applause.
Irreverent, classy and wild, Ruckus has grown into a community of... -
5 Types Of People You Will Meet At Slam Poetry
Ruckus is a Brisbane slam event featuring poets, performers, writers, vaudevillians and more competing for glory and prizes that 'may or may not be worth
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5 Poetic Songs With Australian Poetry Slam Feature Performer Denni Proctor
Twenty-two-year-old Palawa singer-songwriter Denni Proctor hails from Tasmania, now lives in Adelaide, and will be the feature artist performing at the SA Poetry Slam Heat
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5 Ways You Know You’re Beyond Exhausted
Stefanie Brooke Harper is a Brisbane-based writer, slam poet and stand-up comedian whose new play, ‘Slammed’, will premiere at the Brisbane Powerhouse this month – she's also
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Introducing Jesse John Brand
Jesse John Brand won the Australian Poetry Slam at the Sydney Opera House on 13 October, 2013.
Who is Jesse John Brand... I’m a writer, performer... -
Five Things To Pretend To Be As Suggested By Andrew Galan
Andrew Galan is an internationally published poet and co-producer of Australia’s nationally renowned poetry slam, BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!
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Ruckus Slam Final: Poets Fighting To The Death
With a swag of spoken-word and slam-poetry events happening across Brisbane in the last year or so, a burgeoning scene of ‘uber-literate’ hipsters are taking the city by
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Word Twister: The Australian Poetry Slam
Queensland rappers, rhymers and poets will bring their words to the stage as the 2014 Australian Poetry Slam competition arrives in Brisbane this September.
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The Queensland Poetry Festival Is A Three Day Word-Fest
This year marks the 18th annual Queensland Poetry Festival, which aims to bring language to life.
During it’s almost two decade run, the event has grown into the...
