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| The Score Adder, Me, CJ bowerbird and The Flying V. Image courtesy of Adam Thomas |
THE
INVITATION TO THE FINAL OF THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY HEAT OF THE
AUSTRALIAN POETRY SLAM IS NOW UPON YOU AS BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! GOES TO
NEWACTON!
Drawn
from competitions held by BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! across the intersections of
Civic and the outer north of Canberra’s inner northern streets we bring you
fourteen finalists who will take to the stage under the eaves of all the
apartments and hotel rooms built around NewActon to do further battle for the
second most coveted trophy of poetry in THE CANBERRA!
YES
POETRY AND TROPHY AND THE CANBERRA*
That
second most coveted trophy being conceptual and being the right to represent
the Australian Capital Territory at the Australian Poetry Slam Final in Sydney!
The
MOST coveted trophy of poetry of course being one of the broken action figures
provided by Impact Comics which we give to First Prize Winners at
BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! at The Phoenix Pub.*
BUT
YES THAT IS ALL CORRECT!
THIS
IS THE ACT FINAL FOR POETRY!
And
when that is all capitalised it can be a bit confusing so here it is with full
stops:
THIS
IS THE A.C.T. FINAL FOR POETRY!
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| Bela Farkas Image courtesy of Adam Thomas |
Still,
even without action figures the first prize of going to Sydney to battle it out
at their Australian Poetry Slam campfire jamboree for further prizes, such as
going to China to the Bookworm Festival and Indonesia to the Ubud Festival and
to Sydney again but this next time it being for the Sydney Writers Festival is
all pretty sweet. YES PRETTY SWEET! WHEN YOU WIN YOU GET TO GO TO THESE THINGS
AS A WINNER, not like the rest of the attendees…
“WHO
ARE OUR FINALISTS?”
I
HEAR YOU SCREAMING AT SCREENS ACROSS THE TERRITORY AND INTERSTATE AND IN THE
FAR FLUNG OLD AND NEW WORLDS!
They
in no particular order are:
CMC,
Eleanor, Aaron, Isaac, Aiden, Melea, Pete, Azim, Duncan, Fenella, Bernadette,
Callum, CJ Bowerbird, John, Gabriella, and Erica… [names may change as
contestants correct BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!’s spelling and/or provide a pseudonym
and/or stage-name and/or a real name].
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| Calum and Erica Image courtesy of Adam Thomas |
For
those who can count — yes! there are sixteen names above, BUT TWO DON’T CARE
FOR OUR EFFORTS AT VALIDATION THROUGH PUTTING THEM IN FINALS! (or something
like that) and have ridden off into the red dawn to seek truth amongst rhyming
Cuban paratroopers who wear berets and keffiyehs if that is how you pluralise
it or something like that.
So
join us at NewActon for poetry, and by us I mean The Master of Conflict who
hates poetry but loves poets, Local Yeller Andrew Galan who YELLS, The Score
Adder who makes it all work, and our Sacrificial Poet who will be put to the
chopper to open proceedings EVEN THOUGH HE DOES NOT RHYME!
All
for BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!
All
for you!
All
with FIRST PRIZES from IMPACT COMICS** and THE GAMES CAPITAL** and the
NewActon**** and a BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! BACK SHED!***
Remember
those rulie rules that can be found here
(http://australianpoetryslam.com/rules) how anyone is going to police one or
two recognizable pop culture references is beyond BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! SO JUST
FLAP YOUR ARMS AND DON’T MENTION JAR JAR BINKS MORE THAN TWICE, OR DO BUT DO
NOT ALSO MENTION JULIUS CAESAR AND A KARDASHIAN AND NAPOLEAN AND BILL AND/OR
TED ALL IN THE ONE POEM – "naughty, naughty" we will be forced to
say!
Or
something like that…
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| The audience at Smiths Alternative Bookshop Image courtesy of Adam Thomas |
See
you at “BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! Goes to NewActon!”
*[In
a voice-over voice] Prize may or may not include some form of trophy.
**
[In a voice-over voice] Prize guaranteed to be not broken and still definitely
awesome at the same time.
***
[In a voice-over voice] Prize not guaranteed to be not broken and still not
definitely awesome at the same time.
****
[In a voice-over voice] Prize may include a flight or bus-ride or old pair of
volleys to get you to Sydney.
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