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This week I did a spot at a CIT creative writing class on performance poetry. It was a bit rough but the students seemed to enjoy the pieces. One of the ones I performed was mentioned in this earlier post which has links to a video and transcript. On the subject of video, you can now watch the grand final of the 2008 Australian Poetry Slam on the ABC website, as well as pieces by indiviudal poets.

E-news subscribers already know this but, for your benefit, the next slam:

Friday 24 April
7.30pm – 11.30pm
The Front Gallery and Café, Wattle St, Lyneham
Featuring new local band ‘ah, pandita!’

Hope your weekend is truly egg-cellent!

Ok it’s late and it’s damn hot. Too hot to think about work or anything else (so hot in fact, three snakes tried to crawl their way into my office building today), so rather than and write anything insightful I’m going to post this video of Big Poppa E performing the Wussy Boy Manifesto, which I originally heard about through the excellent IndieFeed: Performance Poetry podcast. It’s not the best performance I’ve seen but the recording is very good and, well, you get the idea. Enjoy!