RABBIT 27 – Tense (Within Australia)

I have a poem in the ‘TENSE’ issue of Rabbit Journal. Lately I have been writing a lot about work, and this poem covers some aspect of what I have been focused on in that context. The journal was guest edited by Pascalle Burton and David Stavanger, thanks to both for including my poem.

You can purchase the journal at Rabbitpoetry.com or subscribe for several issues. Thank you to Rabbit Poetry Journal.

APJ 8.2 Spoken, open for submissions

Submissions for APJ 8.2 – 'spoken' are now open! We are delighted to announce the guest editors of this issue are Andrew Galan and David Stavanger, submissions close 1 October. https://t.co/LNSfsQtH4A pic.twitter.com/ZWmS8zLbUZ

— Australian Poetry (@AusPoetry) August 15, 2018

Andrew Galan with Okinawa Girls jam session, 19 February 2017

I’ve been jamming with Okinawa Girls for our shows at the National Folk Festival coming up in April this year. In preparation I’ve been going to their gigs as well as those of the Blade Winner (who is one half of Okinawa Girls). I’ve taken notes on the performances, on the song lyrics, as well as the vibe of what is going on. I’ve also been listening to one outtake that was sent to me by Laura Milkovits (the other half of Okinawa Girls) and discussing the songs with the band. The result is a poem called Tuesday: the Definitive Cherry Blossom, which I am still writing. Here is a small section of it recorded during our first jam session.

Book Launch - For All The Veronicas (The Dog Who Staid), Wednesday 27 April, 19:30–22:00

Presented by BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! with the support of the Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centres.

Wednesday 27 April you are invited to a night of poetry, music and performance from some of Canberra’s most original writers, musicians and performers. Including Eleanor Malbon, David Finnigan, Nick Delatovic and Melinda Smith, this gathering is to launch Andrew Galan’s latest collection, For All The Veronicas (The Dog Who Staid) - New Poems, published by Brisbane’s Bareknuckle Books. The event will be MCed by BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!’s Joel Barcham.

So join us at the Gorman Arts Centre from 7:30pm for an 8pm start.

Cost: Free.

Drinks and books available for sale at the event.

If you would like more information about each of our performers please read on.

Andrew Galan

Andrew Galan is an internationally published poet and co-producer of renowned poetry event BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!. Described by reviewers as ‘riddled with satire’, his poetry is gut, direct, and imagination and reality meeting to eat and fight. Showcased at events including the Woodford, National Folk and Queensland Poetry festivals, and Chicago’s Uptown Poetry Slam, his verse appears in journals such as the Best Australian Poems, Jet Fuel Review and Cordite. That Place of Infested Roads (life during wartime) - KF&S Press, 2013 - is his first book. His latest is For All the Veronicas (The Dog Who Staid) - Bareknuckle Books, 2016.

Andrew Galan // ART, INDUSTRY, ARCHITECTURE AND PETS from F K on Vimeo.

Melinda Smith

Melinda Smith won the 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for her fourth book of poems, Drag down to unlock or place an emergency call (Pitt St Poetry, 2013). She has performed her work all over Australia. She is based in Canberra, and is currently poetry editor of The Canberra Times. Her next book of poems will be out later in 2016.

Nick Delatovic

Nick Delatovic is a writer, producer and performer based in Canberra. He has been one of the folks behind You Are Here festival since 2011, creating and assisting with hundreds of experimental arts events in that time. An alumni of the Street Theatre's Hive program for emerging writers, Nick has written stage plays including Rig (2011) and The Last Prom (2013). He is currently touring Bomb Collar, his one-man sci-fi cabaret musical. As one half of music-and-film production company Lick Nuke he has created dozens of music videos and the odd short film, including the Screen ACT-commissioned Lights (2013).

Nick Delatovic - Wishing from Luke McGrath on Vimeo.

David Finnigan

David is a writer, theatre-maker, festival producer and pharmacy assistant from Canberra, Australia. With science-theatre ensemble Boho, he works with research scientists from institutions including University College London, the Stockholm Resilience Centre, CSIRO and the Australian Academy of Sciences. He has been a resident artist for the Battersea Arts Centre in London, Tanghalang Pilipino in Manila and Campos de Gutierrez in Medellin, Colombia. David has been commissioned to create new work for organisations including, Coney, the Powerhouse Museum, the Canberra Street Theatre, Opera Australia, the National Film and Sound Archive, and the Free Word Centre in London, and his scripts have been nominated for the Max Afford National Playwrights Award and the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award. David is a Churchill Fellow (2012) and an Australia Council Early Career Fellow (2014-16) and founded and co-directed two ongoing arts festivals: the Crack Theatre Festival in Newcastle (2009-10), and the You Are Here festival in Canberra (2011-13).

Eleanor Malbon

Ellie is a Canberran who writes poetry. She performs predominantly in Canberra; including for BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!, Feminartsy, RIP publishing, Grapple publishing, Scissors Paper Pen, the Canberra Poetry Slam, You Are Here festival and various other charming pop up events.

Poetry in the Round - Friday 27 November, Civic Square

Brought to you by BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! in partnership with Aspen Island Theatre Company. This is Poetry in the Round.

Featuring the 2014 winner of the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry, Melinda Smith, whose work appears in national and international journals, including the Best Australian Poems; Melinda’s most recent book is Drag down to unlock or place an emergency call, Pitt St Poetry, 2013.

Featuring multi-talented performance poet Scott Sandwich who rants, reads, and hip hops both awkward and epic. Scott has been a finalist in the Australian Poetry Slam, the Nimbin Poetry World Cup, and won the 2011 Woodford Folk Festival Poetry Slam.

Featuring Andrew Galan with poetry that is gut, direct, been described by reviewers as ‘riddled with satire. Andrew has featured at the Queensland Poetry, Woodford and National Folk festivals, his first book is That Place of Infested Roads (life during wartime), Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2013.

And featuring the audio-visual displays of Canberra artist Danny Wild (aka low flung). Danny is a founding member of audio visual collective ZONK Vision, undertook the 2014 Canberra Contemporary Art Space Studio Residency Program and is a recipient of an Australia Council ArtStart Grant. The night is MC’ed by stilt-walker and science educator extraordinaire, Joel Barcham. This is Poetry in the Round, a night bringing together local and national writers and performers.

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! runs nationally renowned poetry slam BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! at the Phoenix Pub, and in partnership with Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centres programs Canberra’s newest wildly successful night of feature poets, The Salt Room.

  

The Timbaler of El Bruc

About a week has passed in Catalunya, I’ve been up Montserrat Mountain to the abbey and experienced an El Bruc festival.

The abbey is Benedictine and a major pilgrimage and tourism destination to visit a Black Madonna. It is an experience to look out over a congregation gazing up at the statue. People crying, people chatting, people shushing, people checking their phones.

I’ve sent a postcard off with some of the feeling of the monastery written onto it. The abbey has a museum holding artifacts from the Middle East, as well as artwork by Salvador Dalí. The work they have by Joan Miró is travelling as part of a touring collection of the 100 best works from the abbey museum.

This weekend was the Drummer Festival celebrating the legend of the French army fleeing from El Bruc due to a local drummer boy who made the French think a huge Catalunyan army was descending upon them.

The festival opened on Saturday evening with drumming teams in a grand procession down the main street, the locals in orange were chaotic and led by a drummer with a red mohawk. Three teams visiting from nearby towns also took part, they were purple, yellow and blue.

I was asked where my vote went, it went to blue. They were having the most fun with their small team. I don’t know if there was a winner, I hope so.

Sunday had the French army invading the town. There was an evil French general who had excellent crazy eyes.

And who ordered his soldiers to steal the daughters and wives of El Bruc and threaten them with execution.

And then threaten their fathers and husbands with execution, he then pretended to let them go, and then he had them shot.

A blind drunk raised the town to fight. He talked and talked and drank and drank and kept smacking his drummer boy guide on the back of the head.

There was the firing of blunderbusses and muskets into the air, pork crackling and pig face was eaten, and tea and sweets from Morocco were given away.

To close the day Catalunyan irregulars attacked the French camp on the edge of town. Pitchfork and reaper armed militia came down a large cliff on ropes while drummers and blunderbuss armed troops came up from a creek. They seized a French canon, then battled the retreating French into the centre of the old town. The air was full of smoke and rolling barrels and flung sandbags. There was fake blood. And to the crash of blunderbuss and with the smell of sulphur the last French soldier was pitchforked to death where the earlier executions had occurred.

Sunday is a recreation of events on 6 and 14 June 1808. On both days much smaller forces from Catalunya defeated the invading French military.

During this week gone I’ve managed to finish one poem, and with Amanda’s help, give the manuscript a restructure and edit.

This Tuesday I’m headed to Barcelona to visit The Joan Miró Foundation and the Museum of History of Catalunya.

I’m still listening to the Transistor soundtrack, but mixing it up with the music of FTL, Pitiri 1977 and Samorost 2.

All the photographs are by Amanda Coghlan, except the one of a postcard.

Mall Stories 2013

Julian Fleetwood has put together Mall Stories as part of YouAreHere for two years.

Mall Stories is a walking tour composed of words by writers from around the world and centres on the Mall experience. The first tour, Mall Stories 2012, took place within the Canberra Centre.

This year the collection has extended into a tour around Canberra’s civic centre, mostly outdoors, while continuing the exploration of the growing mall named the Canberra Centre.

I am stoked to be alongside writers and artists such as Monica Caroll, Pascalle Burton, Daniel Ferri, Art Rush and Marcus Westbury, as well as a bunch of others from Canberra and the wider world.

You can download Mall Stories 2013 and Mall Stories 2012.

The Poetry Slam

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! JOINS FORCES WITH YOU ARE HERE FOR THE MYSTERIOUS POETRY SLAM!

(Seemingly there is no reason for these extraordinary intergalactical upsets)

And by mysterious we mean that we know there will be poetry! Your poetry!

Because we give you a stage, two minutes, war rocket Ajax, one MC, a large egg football, a stage, Dr. Hans Zarkov, another egg football, no wait! Two MCS, Dale Arden (My God, we're moving!) an audience, Prince Vultan, The Score Adder, The Sound Guy, a third egg football, General Klytus (What plaything can you offer me today?) The Master of Conflict, Prince Thun— it’s too late for him —judges…five judges, a Lieutenant of Ming's Air Force, a fourth egg football, and prizes, plus General Kala (Charge the lightning field) prizes, and more prizes, and Prince Barin and Princess Aura (Drop this into his glass tonight) and the soldiers that make piggie noises when they get stabbed to death by hair pins and a red singlet with a gold lightning bolt, and

All so you can save the Universe, A-AH, you’ll save every one of us

(This morning's unprecedented solar eclipse is no cause for alarm)

And when BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! says mystery and YouAreHere it means MYSTERY AND YOUAREHERE

Because this month YouAreHere are providing two feature acts and we don’t know what they are…oh the mystery…

(General Kala, Hadley Memorial Slots approaching.)

But that isn’t all

(What do you mean Hadley Memorial Slots approaching? Open fire! All weapons! Dispatch war rocket Ajax to bring back Hadley Memorial Slots body)

Because amongst all that mystery BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! continues its tradition of being the first last father mother stepdad stepmother distant close and third uncle aunt of Canberra poetry by filling the Hadley Memorial Slots.

This month with Amelia Filmer-Sankey!...Oh..Oh........Oh..Oh ................

(Hadley Memorial Slots, Hadley Memorial Slots, I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save the Earth!)

And remember, no props, no music, your original words, your original words we want them and maybe movements, two minutes, the Phoenix Pub, for prizes, 730pm sign-up.

Did I forget anything?

(The inhabitants refer to it as the planet…earth)

The Poetry Slam, Wednesday night inside The Phoenix Pub

Have you been to BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!?

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is the poetry slam that wants your words on stage for two minutes for 1st prizes.

And to enable this you get one stage, five judges, much sound, many audience, twice the microphone, The Sound Guy, multiple MCs, The Score Adder, very much prize giving, The Master of Conflict, multiplied feature acts, and two minutes on the stage.

That is right, all those things for your words, ‘cause we want ‘em, whatever they are, all of 'em, packed into two entire minutes…

And this month we bring acts, feature acts! FEATURE ACTS.

Feature Act One is STACKHAT [TIM KENT].

Feature Act Two is GOLDEN ORB.

And filling The Hadley Memorial Slots is the poet AK-Pyjamas!

AK-Pyjamas (Photo by Adam Thomas)

So be at BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! at The Phoenix Pub in the Civic bus interchange, sign-up from 730pm, with your original words, no props, no music, two minutes, for prizes and more prizes.

YouAreHere writer-in-residence

As writer-in-residence for YouAreHere I interviewed Reuben Ingall. He is a Canberra music and electronic machine experimenter.

It's me, Reuben

Read the results at the YouAreHere website. Thanks to Reuben for taking the time to talk.

Today I interviewed El Lukio of One Pot Punk Rock. The results of the interview will be going to YouAreHere for them to determine where it best belongs.

El Lukio

Thanks for the interview El Lukio. You should check out his public service announcement.

The Canberra Zine Emporium

My Writer in Residence with YouAreHere 2013 is under way. Follow this link to the YouAreHere website where you will find some words courtesy of speaking with Chiara Grassia and Nat Clark of the Canberra Zine Emporium. They are currently seeking zine-makers for their fair on 23 March, the deadline for booking a table is 8 Feb, email them: 

canberrazineemporium@gmail.com. 

I'll be there with Paul Summerfield.

GnR, Elvis, and Sinatra play Glebe Park

In the depths of Canberra's 2014 winter the 1988 Guns and Roses opened this triple headed concert on the Glebe Park stage with Welcome to the Jungle, an unusual way to start, but their set didn't let up for 40 minutes of tight and simultaneously rambling heavily sweated numbers from their albums Appetite for Destruction and G N' R Lies.

GnR was followed by 1970 Elvis Presley crooning both to the distant Bega Flats and the overlooking Crown Casino. In response the crowd spilled onto crotchet rugs from set beginning to another strange song choice, his finale and farewell song, In the Ghetto.

Then the 1959 Frank Sinatra took the stage. And through favourites that had the crowd kicking on their rugs, and among cameos from 1960's proto-Rat Packers (as well as William Shatner), Sinatra held the Canberra crowd to the conclusion of his final song, Al Hoffman's I'm Gonna Live Until I Die.

All-in-all this was a solid night of music; with enough variation to cater to Canberra's diverse crowds but with a through-line of humanity and mortality that held the three acts together for the evening.

And in other arts related news, issue nineteen of The Delinquent is now out in its thermals.

Featuring:

Rodney Nelson, Duygu Senocak, Lucy Winrow, Daniel Lehan, Nicholas Francis, Spencer Golub &David Hancock, Tim Keane, Caitlin Hoffman, Clive Birnie, Andrew Galan, Eleanor Perry, Christopher Barnes, Bela Farkas, Claudine Toutoungi, Melissa Mann, Robert McCorquodale, Vincent JS Wood, Phil Callaghan, Dan Melling, Michelle Matthees, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Jim Meirose, Edwin Sellors, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Bethany Pope, Tanaka Mhishi, Charles Pitter, Matt Dennison, Ray Diamond, Charlie Geoghegan-Clements, Jim Alderson, Dan Stathers, B. E. Smith, Matthew Griffiths, Susana H. Case, Ian Goodale, Jeremy Quinn, Duncan Jones, Martin Jones, Graham Fulton, Rosemary Norman, Meredith Collins, Nicole Kuwik, David Cudar, Rupert M Loydell, Harry Downey, Mark Blayney, Peter Ebsworth, John Aaron Rosen, Jason King, and artwork by Daniel Lehan.

The cover and interior photographs are by Eleanor Leonne Bennett.

The Delinquent issue 19 is available from Amazon as an ebook - Delinquent issue 19 on Amazon - and Lulu in both print & pdf versions.

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! at The Phoenix Pub on 12 December in Canberra

Poster by Anne Lander

The December BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! will be at the special time of the 2nd Wednesday of December.

So bring your words, your audience, your judges, your to do lists, your fridges, your poems, to The Phoenix Pub for prizes! Because we give you a stage, two microphones, two MCs, The Master of Conflict, The Score Adder, The Sacrificial Poet and 2 Minutes on stage for Prizes.

This December Bad!Slam!No!Biscuit! also brings you two feature acts:

Penelope Asterisk

Burlesque strong-woman Penelope Asterisk is guaranteed to be able to bench press not only more than any poet can, but likely all the poets in the Phoenix.

Tom Woodward

A writer, musician and general dilettante, Tom has been all these things since he was ten. Now twenty-eight his career as a writer, musician and general dilettante turns eighteen. Happy birthday to you, miserable life!

So join BAD!SLAM!N!OBISCUIT! on the 2nd Wednesday of December for the final poetry slam of 2012, for prizes, for glory, for stanza, for the sacrifice of it all, there will be bourbon, oh Bad!Slam! knows there will be bourbon.

The Disappearing

The Red Room Company has published my poem The Max as part of their project The Disappearing, a phone app that maps Australia with poems.

There is guaranteed to be at least one sausage in there, at least one poem with no meat products, and definitely one trouser eating poem.

So download the application and read the words, or with the correct equipment throw a digital person down a hole.

These worlds are procedurally generated

Much care was given to maximum compactness of code.

and

The last part added was the 3D radar display fitted into the last few unused bytes in their computer.

Then I received this from The Delinquent Magazine:

“Hi Andrew,

Will you marry me? Thank you for your submission. The delinquent is pleased to announce that we will be printing ‘War, what is it good for? (A Gen-kill poem)’ and ‘George Clooney can do anything’ in issue 19.

We have specially ‘borrowed’ this plane to contact you because, although we are unable to pay contributors, or even provide them with a free copy, we honestly believe that, where your writing is concerned – THE SKY IS THE LIMIT!!”

Photographs of this message can be viewed at:

https colon forwardslash forwardslash the_pentagon forwardslash aerialsurveillance (one word) dot axisofevil (one word) dot fp=126qz, 3pvw dot X7984g15D2

Please set your browser not to accept cookies. To view your message correctly you will need one of the following: (1) a mirror; or (2) photo-editing software – please select flip image horizontal.

Alternatively for a 7” x 6” glossy print of your message, please send your passport and a recent utility bill, together with a banker’s draft for $30 to the following address: The Secret Government of Earth, #REDACTED#, #REDACTED#, Isle of wight. Please remember to clearly mark your envelope ‘Top Secret’.

Please note all highly classified aerial surveillance images will be automatically recorded over within 12 hours of receiving this email, so don’t delay!”

Now it is time to let the docking computer fly the Cobra Mk III: 

Elite by David Braben and Ian Bell

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! on 21 November @ The Phoenix Pub

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! @ The Phoenix Pub

In November we provide you with a stage, an audience, five judges, The Score Adder, two microphones, and two minutes on stage, for prizes, FIRST PRIZES from Impact Comics, The Games Capital, Smiths Alternative Bookshop, and from underneath the back office desk.

And of course we provide you with the Master of Conflict to arbitrarily judge the poet amongst poets to claim one of our many many first prizes and quite likely the best of the first prizes.

So we want your words on stage to perform poems, be scored, be judged, care or not care about the judges, and drink some cider and or whiskey and or something else.

And this month we have two features acts:

One feature is Emilie Zoey Baker.

Poet and spoken word performer Emilie Zoey Baker is the winner of the 2010 International Slam Review as part of the Berlin International Literature Festival, she also toured and performed in Paris, London and Singapore ending at the 2010 Ubud Writers festival in Bali. She toured North America in 2009 following an invitation to perform at Montréal’s Festival Voix d’Amériques. The tour included New York, Chicago, Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver.

And returning to BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! as the BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! house band is Bacon Cakes.

Bacon Cakes is a solo thrashing fuzzy headed garage punk cosmonaut! Birds Like Fighting Records describe him and his music as “...perfect for a quick drive downtown, all fitting within the limited 15 minute space on the A side. His charisma on stage (and in life) is carried through onto the tape in this fuzzed out pop love live recorded session.”

Bacon Cakes @ BMA

So join the BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! at The Phoenix Pub for poetry, and remember, no props, no music, YOUR ORIGINAL WORDS, on stage, signup at 730pm, for prizes, for glory, for a peg leg.

Bone Orchard Poetry

Bone Orchard Poetry published two of my poems earlier this month, Clockwork and Nagasaki Sunset.

A tree in Hawaii

If you follow the above link to read the poems then also check out three poems by Kyle Hemmings at the same blogzine.

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! 7:30pm on 17 October 2012 @ The Phoenix Pub

THE THIRD HEAT OF THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY AUSTRALIAN POETRY SLAM!

All for you!

Back in the Phoenix Pub!

And dedicated to marsupials!

Which means we want your words on the BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! stage!

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is your monthly poetry slam in Canberra that provides you with two minutes, (why won’t they think of the marsupials?), an audience, A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT, two microphones, THE SCORE ADDER, judges – five judges!, (...the marsupials...) more first prizes than ever or ever will be, THE MASTER OF CONFLICT, another MC, A STAGE, The Sacrificial Poet, THE OPPORTUNITY TO LISTEN TO POETRY or not, and the chance to perform whatever words you’ve got.

DON’T FORGET THE MARSUPIALS!

There are some special rules for this heat as it is part of the Australian Poetry Slam. They are here: http://australianpoetryslam.com/rules.

Oh for the love of marsupials...

WE HAVE FEATURE ACTS!

And they are:

PAUL MAGEE

"Paul Magee is the author of the surrealist ethnography From Here to Tierra del Fuego (University of Illinois Press: 2000) and Cube Root of Book (John Leonard Press: 2006), which is in verse. He is working on Chapter Twelve, again for John Leonard Press. Paul teaches poetry at the University of Canberra, where he is an Associate Professor. He has published extensively on psychoanalysis, stagnation, boredom and revolution."

AND:

JULIA JOHNSON

"Julia Johnson is the frontwoman of Julia and the Deep Sea Sirens. She has been compared to Sarah Blasko and Joni Mitchell, but she has also been compared to Joan Rivers and The Little Mermaid. You might hate her because she likes poems that rhyme, but she promises not to perform one. She knows all the words to Gangster's Paradise, and won the Triple J Unearthed Songwriting Comp earlier this year."

So bring your words ‘cause we want them on stage because BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is a poetry slam full of marsupials.

And remember, no props, original material, no music, your words, on stage, 2 minutes, at The Phoenix Pub.

MARSUPIALS ARE NOT A THEME!

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

(This heat sponsored by IMPACTCOMICS, The Games Capital, The RiotACT, NewActon, and a BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! back shed.)

The ACT Australian Poetry Slam Heat Number Two - The Hadley Memorial Slam

THE PRESENT CRISIS CALLS FOR HEAT NUMBER TWO OF THE ACT AUSTRALIAN POETRY SLAM HEATS!

This time at Smiths Alternative Bookstore/shop/frontage/wine bar/cafe...

With words, bring your words, and your renga, and your haiku, or your tanka, and your hokku, or even your renku, ‘cause it’s a crisis time I tellsya, crisis, and only poetry can save us if we wave our arms to the sky and say WORD! or

Yes, word.

And no you don’t have to restrict yourself to the above list of poetry forms, really, we will take anything.

But there are special rules for this poetry slam heat, find those rules by following the next link on this page, because preparation is your Uncle, as they say, and your Uncle is Mad: Australian Poetry Slam!

Now no poetry night would be complete without a feature act.

And our feature act for this evening is the all kinds of wonderfully special Drew Walky!

Drew Walky’s music has been described as “original and lyrically rich, with a folk-psychedelic edge” and “personal puzzles…delivered in an alternative folk style with a very ‘hippy hippy shake’ flavour.”

Read more about Drew Walky here: BMA Magazine on Drew Walky and then listen to him live at Smiths Alternative Bookshop on Saturday night.

CRISIS ALMOST RESOLVED!

In the invite for Heat One we mentioned the MASTER OF CONFLICT. The Master of Conflict was unfortunately turned into a vampire that night so who KNOWS IF HE WILL MAKE IT TO THIS SLAM, but clap and hope he is going to be there for us is all we can say and do, CLAP IS ALL THAT CAN SAVE HIM, CLAP! You may just bring him back from the dead, or as the undead. And you do want him there, 'cause he brings prizes, YES PRIZES!

CLAP, CRISIS!

And then, as written earlier, bring yourself and your POETRY SPRUIKING GUNDAM to Smiths Alternative Bookshop for poetry, and prizes, and glory.

CRISIS NOT RESOLVED!

CLAP!

Thanks to our sponsors IMPACT COMICS, THE GAMES CAPITAL, THE PHOENIX PUB, THE RIOTACT and NEWACTON.

And remember, there is one more heat after this, it is on 17 October at The Phoenix Pub and it shall be known as Heat Number Three, and then there is the final at NewActon on 3 November, it shall be known as…

The Final

Remember, crisis… clap...

The ACT Australian Poetry Slam events are brought to you by:

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! which can normally be found in The Phoenix Pub on the third Wednesday of every month!