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It’s almost poetry slam time again – Friday 26 June at The Front, as usual.

This month I’m very excited to present not one, but two special guest poets.

First up we have young Queensland poet Rhys Rodgers, who has just started on a mini self-funded tour around Australia. This is from his bio:

Rhys Rodgers is a new and exciting performance poet from Brisbane. He won the Love Poetry Hate Racism open mic in 2008, was a finalist at both Nimbin performance poetry world cup and Woodford slam, as well as winning the 2008 SpeedPoets championships in Brisbane.

Next up we have Tobias Manderson-Galvin, who runs the Melbourne theatre company Sample Theatre, and will be sticking around in Canberra for a while to work on an Open House show with Canberra Youth Theatre. From his bio: Tobias Manderson-Galvin is a talented actor and poet from Melbourne whose poetry has previously seen him detained for terrorism by the Federal police, the bomb squad and an Adelaide airport. No stranger to provocation or controversy, Tobias has performed as part of the Dadaist hip-hop act The Hobby Whores and as the titular character Hitlerhoff, the cult comedy fusing of The Hoff and der Führer, which stormed the Adelaide Fringe Festival earlier this year.

So come along, check out some sure-to-be entertaining guest poets and then have ago at performing yourself!

Poetry Slam
26 June 2009 7:30-11:30pm
The Front Café and Gallery
Wattle St, Lyneham

2 Responses so far | Have Your Say!

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   Malcolm Miller
   June 27th, 2009 at 9:41 am #

   The June slam last night was great! I rate it 4.5 out of 5. (It couldn’t be 5/5 because I was in it! ) Seriously, it was all I wanted the Poetry Slam to be; a great crowd, no extraneous ‘music’, some really good poems and poets, people passionate about poetry. Keep it like this and you’ll be needing a new and bigger venue! The visiting poets were exciting, and I was highly impressed by those who can recite their work by heart! I could never do that. Good work all round from the organisers.

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   jools
   June 27th, 2009 at 4:14 pm #

   Thanks Malcolm. Glad you enjoyed the evening.