I’m very excited that next year I’m going to be running a project as part of Canberra’s You Are Here festival. I can’t say too much about it yet, but it will allow me to explore some ideas I’ve been itching to try out over the last two years. The best bit about this is you [...]
After one extremely massively sweaty ACT poetry battle we now have two champions that will represent the Canberra at the national final on 27 November: Third time ACT finalist Adam “Jacinta” Hadley‘s idiosyncratic bread of insanity/genius will knock Sydney audiences for six. Australian Poetry Slam newcomer Miranda “Bling Bling” Lello combines beautiful words and images [...]
Well it’s that time of the year again… time for Australian Poetry Slam! This year we’re only running one ACT heat so, unfortunately, this’ll be the one and only shot for Canberra poets to perform at the nationals (for other areas check the Australian Poetry Slam site). The national final takes place on Sunday 27 [...]
Quick update on this week’s slam. Sorry about the late notice – too busy getting zines ready for TINA and exploring Darwin… Traverse Poetry Slam 30 September 2011 7.30pm-10.30pm The Front Gallery and Café Wattle St, Lyneham Warm up for the ACT heats of the Australian Poetry Slam with… another poetry slam! Sign up at 7.30pm [...]
I’ve received some poetry-related notices from a few sources, so pushing them out in one big ol’ post. Hopefully this will also inspire me to get my act together to get involved in some of these exciting events! Now Hear This 14 September @ The Street Theatre Melanie Tait at 666 ABC is looking for [...]
Today as I was driving to and from my weekly (although late by a day this week) Cafe Poet session at The Front I listened to this repeat of On Being’s interview with US poet Elizabeth Alexander. The thing that stayed with me from this podcast, as I wrote today, was the title “words that [...]
If you’ve passed by this blog of late you may have notice things have changed a bit. The main change is from purely Traverse Poetry content to a personal website. The primary domain is now julianfleetwood.com I’ve also changed to a much simpler wordpress design, which will hopefully keep my OCD tendencies to tweak and [...]
This month we celebrate all things autumnal: chestnuts and pumpkins, massive piles of leaves, crisp frosty blue mornings, and everything red, yellow and orange. Get your pens to paper and your feet to The Front! Traverse Poetry Slam: Autumn 27 May 2011 7.30pm-10.30pm The Front Gallery and Café Wattle St, Lyneham
Hi. Long hiatus. Hopefully more stuff on the blog soon (or perhaps even a totally different blog). Quick post to say I started as Cafe Poet at The Front! I’m going to be there Saturday mornings (usually) for the next six months. Woo!
Vanessa Berry, Canberra zine fair, Canberra Contemporary Arts Space, ACT Writers Centre
