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| BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! |
BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! RETURNS FOR
ITS ONE AND ONLY NOVEMBER EDITION FOR 2015.
BECAUSE
BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! IS THE POETRY SLAM.
The
largest, longest running and most extra-terrestrial poetry slam across all
space and time.
AND THAT
MEANS BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! WANTS YOU FOR TWO MINUTES ON STAGE WITH NO PROPS NO
MUSIC AND YOUR ORIGINAL MATERIAL FOR PRIZES AND GLORY AND INFAMY AND LOSING AND
VICTORY AND LARGENESS AND SMALLNESS AND INTERMEDIATENESS AND DRINKING IN THE PHOENIX PUB.
And because
this is the poetry slam we have feature acts!
Feature
act!
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| Photo by Ian Powne |
24 Hour Gym is an experimental musical and spoken word project by Pascalle Burton (vocals, synths) and Tessa Rose (vocals, breath). It is
music for a complete workout of body and mind, with lyrics derived from both
art criticism essays by women (for example, Cindy Sherman, Chris Kraus, Kim
Gordon and Meredith Monk), and exercise videos.
Feature act!
Melinda Smith
Melinda Smith won the 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry
with her fourth collection, Drag down to unlock or place an emergency call
(Pitt St Poetry, 2013). Her work has appeared in many local and overseas
magazines and anthologies, including Best Australian Poems and Australian Love
Poems, and on ABC Radio National’s Poetica. In 2015 she has appeared at the
Sydney Writers, Newcastle Writers, and National Folk Festivals among others.
She is based in Canberra, and blogs at www.melindasmith.wordpress.com
And filling the Hadley (RIP) Memorial Slots is Special Guest the
infamous Brisbane Robot Hadley.
So join Andrew Gayland, The Master of Conflict, The Score Adder, and The
Sacrificial Poet in the Phoenix Pub.
Signup from 7:30pm!
Poetry Slam from 8pm!
Prizes, glory, infamy, poetry, large, medium, negative infinity, space
and time!
And it’s all over by 11:30pm!
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