The Poetry Slam!

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! IS THE POETRY SLAM.

And it wants your original words on stage

for two minutes with no props or music for prizes!

PRIZES!

And it wants you in the Phoenix Pub judging

from 10 to -∞!

-∞!

And it wants you in the Phoenix Pub for general yelling,

specific yelling,

muttering and/or whispering,

and/or even quiet contemplation! It’s your call!

YES, IT’S YOUR CALL!

And don’t forget the prizes!

PRIZES!

So join The Master of Conflict, the audience, the judges, the poets, the sound guy, the bar staff, The Score Adder, the toilet goers, the feature acts, the MCs, the drinkers and the yellers, for prizes, arm flapping, headgear wearing, and coherent and/or incoherent shouting in the Phoenix Pub.

And this month we bring you Pascalle Burton

Yes our first feature act is Pascalle Burton, Pascalle Burton is an Avant-garde performance-poet musician-lady, whose experimental manoeuvres with words and sound are usually founded in cultural theory and have been described as an ‘elegant dragnet’. Pascalle has performed at venues and festivals, both in Australia and overseas. Current projects include The Stress of Leisure, Letter.Box.Stamp.Collect., The Outlandish Watch project (with collaborators Nathan Shepherdson and David Stavanger), the Golden Stapler Award nominated Lavender Room Zine-in-a-Matchbox series and the accessories label TWENTY FIVE SEVENTY FIVE for The Lavender Room. Her debut poetry collection A Vast Laugh was released through Small Change Press in 2008.

And this month we bring you The Stress Of Leisure

Yes our second feature act is The Stress of Leisure! The Stress of Leisure is a band which hails from Brisbane (Queensland), heavily influenced by its sub tropical surroundings. The Stress of Leisure is a truly independent band and continues to release under its own imprint The Stress of Leisure Recording Co. Four albums have been released: The Stress of Leisure (2006), Hour to Hour (2008), Soft Approach (2010) and Cassowary (2012); as well as the 7" single Sex Time (2011). Various commentators have referred to the band as 'local pop wonders', as 'criminally underrated', a band that ease 'seamlessly through a variety of genres'. The slow burn continues.

So join BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! on the 3rd Wednesday of November for the poetry slam of November 2013, for first prizes, for feature acts, for noise, for poetry, for music, for drinking, for toilet going, for more and more and more first prizes, and remember — your original material, two minutes, no music, no props, on stage at the Phoenix Pub.

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!
Photograph by Adam Thomas

The Poetry Slam Returns to the Phoenix Pub

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! @ The Phoenix, 730PM Wednesday 21 September

Welcome to the invitation to the next instalment of BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is where we bring you a stage, a microphone, two minutes, a ding stating Score Adder, an audience, five judges and a Master of Conflict, all so you can YELL, whisper, talk normally, tell us about your day and/or but not restricted to also read love letters, haiku, bush ballads and or tales of ninjas.

FOR PRIZES

Yes you can win prizes from Impact Comics, Mind Games, Smiths Alternative Bookshop and what-ever else people donate to us to give to you.

AND YOUR MCs WILL FIGHT THE MASTER OF CONFLICT ANY DAY TO ENSURE YOU GET THOSE PRIZES.

Anyway, BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is the poetry slam of Canberra and this month we bring you:

Pascalle Burton

Pascalle is an avant-garde performance-poet musician whose experiments and maneuvers with words and sound will make you too want to perform words and sounds, yes, they will.

Pascalle has won the Queensland Poetry Festival and Woodford Folk Festival Slams, her debut poetry collection, A Vast Laugh, has been released through Small Change Press and her The Lavender Room art has been nominated for the coveted Golden Stapler Awards.

YOU SHOULD BE AT BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! FOR HER PERFORMANCE, Yes, you should.

And because we want to smash you with stuff while you are also doing things to us with your words at BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! we also bring you:

The Stress of Leisure

One reviewer of a Stress of Leisure live gig said that the Stress of Leisure put him at the bar with a fistful of coin for a restorative beer! And at Another Lost Shark the Stress of Leisure actually ate the reviewer with the pop-goodness of their album Hour to Hour, chomp, chomp while they sat in the summer back-yard getting a bit of the romance on. Who doesn’t want to drink beer during summer and get the romance on in the back-yard while eating sharks?

YOU SHOULD BE AT BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! FOR The Stress of Leisure, yes, you should.

Got all that? You should be at BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! with your words, with your judging socks on to judge poetry, or judge judges judging poetry or judge audiences judging audiences judging judges judging poetry. ALL FOR POETRY ‘CAUSE RHYME IS THE REAL WINNER. Or was that poetry? I don’t know, where am I? is it too early to say I love you? so be at BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! 730pm, original words, no props, no music, two minutes, judges, prizes, whiskey, back-yards, sonnets, the Stress of Leisure, Pascalle Burton, at the Phoenix Pub.

And remember to remember not what a diphthong is but what it can do for you.