You can now view videos of the winners from the ACT Australian Poetry Slam heats performing their poems in exotic Canberra locations… watch and find out how each of them answers tricky questions such as ‘What will you do if you win?’ Adam Hadley* Omar Musa David Finnigan**/*** *Featuring best ever unplanned interruption EVER! **Thanks [...]
Hagioscope which, according to wikipedia, means: an opening through the wall of a church in an oblique direction, to enable the worshippers in the transepts or other parts of the church, from which the altar was not visible, to see the elevation of the Host. It also appears to be the name of someone’s blog. [...]
My word, what an action-packed final it was! At the end of an incredibly tense slam, Omar Musa (last year’s ACT winner, and grand final runner up) and David Finnigan (whose extreme creativity constantly blows me away) drew for first place and then, after each poet performed a second piece, drew for a second time. [...]
If you’re interested in seeing my performance for Stateline you can stream the video (check out those Dutch tilts man!) on the ABC website. I’m in the middle, after Dennis Wild (last year’s Australian Poetry Slam ACT runner up) and before Shorn Bark… If you’ve never come to a slam before don’t worry, you don’t [...]
The Australian Poetry Slams are always a very different sort of poetry slam to our usual ones at The Front. I think running two heats has positives and negatives. The positives are twice the chance for people to get up and give slam a shot and double the exposure for Canberra slamming in general. The [...]
Tomorrow (Friday 7 November) night, on ABC Stateline* (7.30pm). Of course, all of you will be at the slam at that time so you’ll have to set your VCR or catch the repeat Saturday at noon. The recording happened on Monday – the reporter was sick so the cameraman filmed Heidi answering questions about the [...]
It’s the busiest time of the year for Canberra slams – aside from the regular monthly gig at The Front, we have two ACT heats for Australian Poetry Slam – Friday 7 November and Friday 14 November. Don’t forget you need to register a slot in order to perform. It’s free and very painless – [...]
Friday night’s Halloween slam was great fun (although a little on the quiet side – to be expected with Stonefest, Reclaim the Night and a bunch of other events on at the same time)… Nevertheless ’twas lovely to see all of the kids (and big kids) dressed up, getting into the spookiness of the day. [...]
