Unfortunately, Rosy Carrick‘s workshop (mentioned in my previous post) that was due to take place tomorrow has been cancelled. Rosy’s one of the thousands of people who’ve been grounded by ash from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano. Obviously her other Australian dates have been cancelled too. Quite a shame. Hopefully she’ll be able to schedule another trip [...]
Got a hankerin’ for live poetry? Get stuffed at Traverse’s special ‘hunger’ themed poetry slam! Perform your best poem about ‘hunger’ for the chance to win awesome prizes and a spot on the coveted poetry slam HIGH SCORE TABLE! Plus… special guest poet David Finnigan performs Sun Drugs! Traverse Poetry Slam Friday 30 April 7:30-10:30pm [...]
It’s National Poetry Month (and NaPoWriMo – National Poetry Writing Month) in the States right now so I thought I’d point you towards a good program recently presented on Radio National’s Poetica about legendary US performance poet Gil Scott-Heron, called The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. I also need to tell you about a very [...]
