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What's on Around Australia
ACT | New South Wales | Northern Territory | Queensland | South Australia | Tasmania | Victoria | Western Australia
Calendar of Festivals
The Reading Scene
Listen on radio
Book launches, news & opportunities
- If you have poetry readings/events you want
publicised let the Poets Union
know
- For one off events, including Book launches, see News, Opportunities etc.
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ACT
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| Canberra | Queanbeyan |
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Poetry at The
Gods (ANU Arts Centre).
Second Tuesday of the month. Enquiries 6239
4027. Dinner bookings on 6125 8008. |
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Poetry at Chats relocates to Cafe Bazaart
38 Sydney Rd, Barton.
First Wednesday of the Month. 8 pm.
Light meals available before reading (ring 6273 0100 to book for meal). Coffee and wine available at interval.
For further details call Geoff Page on 6239 4027. Bookings esential.
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The Closet Poets meet at the ACT Writers Centre Workshop room at 5 pm every 2nd and 4th Sat of the month. Bring work to read.
Enq: Deirdre Lambert on 6291 1428 |
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| Queanbeyan |
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Queanbeyan Bush Poets meet every 4th Thursday of the month.
Call Dave Meyers on 6286 1891 |
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New South Wales
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| Bangalow | Byron Bay | Central Coast | Grafton | Hazelbrook | Newcastle | Sydney | Tuggerah Lakes |
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DANGEROUSLY POETIC
RSL Hall in Bangalow.
Third Sunday of the month, 1 pm.
Contact Laura Shore on 02-66801-967.
http://www.dangerouslypoetic.com |
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Dangerously
Poetic Readings in Byron Bay are held the 2nd Sat. of the month at 2 pm. at
Ka-toush Restaurant in Woolies carpark.
For more info. or to be considered as a
featured reader, contact Laura Shore 02-66872-610
For details of other happenings contact David Hallett 6621 7931.
Dangerously Poetic is an incorporated community group seeking
to encourage, publish and promote quality poetry from the Northern
Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia.
http://www.dangerouslypoetic.com
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| Central Coast |
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Central Coast Poets Inc.
Meet 2nd Saturday each month at Gosford Leagues Club.
Telephone
Angela Johnson on 0243442138 or Kelly Blaney-Murphy on 0243292930.
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| Grafton |
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Live Poets at Rohes Hotel
Enq: Helen Matthews on 6642 7506. |
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| Hazelbrook |
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| Poets at Sumerian
Cafe - Contact Zara
4758 9665. |
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| Newcastle |
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| Poetry at the Pub meets on the 3rd Monday of the month at the Northern Star
Hotel, Beaumont St, Hamilton, 7.30pm for Open Reading and Guest Spots.
Out of Town Poets meets every 5th Monday. It features
well-known poets from out of town, generously supported by the
Northern Star Hotel.
Call Jan Dean on 4954 9895.
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The Whiteley Readings
Brett Whiteley Studio
2 Raper Street, Surry Hills
Poets Union Sunday Poetry Readings February - June 2008
4th Sunday of each month
2pm - 3.30pm
Featured guest and open mic
FREE
Enquiries: Angela 0424 002 317 Sunday 24 February
Rosemary Huisman: (The Possibility of Winds). Lucid, engaging, playful. Poetry built from a lifetime of observation, thought and delight in language.
David 'Ghostboy' Stavanger: Be prepared. Anything could happen as this performance poet makes a flying visit from Queensland.
Sunday 23 March
Jenni Nixon: (Café Boogie). Angry, funny, powerful poems that give voice to the marginalised and explore the underbelly of city life. A lively performance guaranteed.
Sunday 27 April - Studio Closed for Renovations.
Sunday 25 May
Judy Johnson: (Navigation). Her verse novel, Jack, won the Victorian Premiers Prize. Her second collection, Nomadic, won the Wesley Michel Wright Prize. Hear the first Sydney reading from her new collection, Navigation. Poetry that is crafted, beautiful and resonant. A Sydney Writers Festival Umbrella Event.
Sunday 22 June
David Brooks: (Walking to Point Clear; Urban Elegies). Two poetry collections twenty years in the making published in 2007! Spare, poised, precise, easy and rigorous lines that unfold into equivocal understanding.
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| Sappho's Bookshop |
Readings second Wednesday of each month. The next PoetryUnLimitedPress Reading is: Wednesday October 10, 7pm - 9pm. Sappho Books & Cafe, 51 Glebe Pt Road Glebe. Ph 9552 4498. This month's Guest Poet Danny Gardner is a poet, journalist & convenor of the 18 years strong Live Poets' Society Readings. Danny co-edited the last three Live Poets' Press anthologies and is the author of the collections Hope In Progress and Made In Public.
* * * Don't forget: after the Guest Poet's Reading, you get a turn to read your own poetry in our Open Mic Competition, in front of a supportive poetry-loving audience. *$2 entry fee includes a raffle ticket.
Guest Poets for 2007 and 2008: October 10:Danny Gardner
November 14: Mark Mordue
December 19: Dorothy Porter
February 13: Martin Harrison
March 12: Heather Catchpole
April 9: Stuart Rees
May 14: Joanne Burns
June 11:Carolyn von Langenberg
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Wednesday October 24: Guest Poet is Carolyn Gerrish who will read from her fourth collection Dark Laughter and new work. Also, Open Section (anyone is welcome to recite, sing, tell a story or play an instrument). Readings held fourth Wednesday of the month at the Don Bank Museum North Sydney, 7.30 - 10.30pm.
$7 admission includes supper and drinks.
Details, 9896 6956 or 0422 263 373 or dannylivepoets@yahoo.com.au |
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| Southerly Readings |
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University of Sydney's Southerly Magazine and featuring top poets. |
A positive free forum for
spoken word.
7pm til late, every Wednesday
Upstairs @ the Palace Hotel, corner of Flinders & South Dowling St,
Darlinghurst (one block down Flinders St from Taylor Square) |
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An open-mike
night
for creative
expression, free speech, hip-hop, poetry, social commentary and anything else
that inspires your exhibitionism. All willing participants welcome - general
public, students, poets, MCs ,journalists, actors, musicians, writers, singers,
etc.....free beer for performers.
Hosted by The Palace
Hotel in partnership with Nexus - Australian Youth Network.
For inquiries contact nexus_campus@email.com
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Bardflys
Friend in Hand Hotel, 58 Cowper St,
Glebe Upstairs bar.
Slam. Hosted by Tug Dumbly and Benito Di Fonzo.
Call Tug
9517 9829.
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| And on radio - Tug and A J's Happy Hour on FBI FM 96.9
every Friday afternoon from 3pm to 5pm. Listening is free. They have a cooking
segment and schooner of Reschs Review. Also guest poets and a Tom Waits segment. |
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Eastern Suburbs Poetry Group
First Friday each month at
the church in the Market Place cnr of Newland and Oxford Street Bondi Junction.
Enquiries, Merlyn Swan 02 9699 2129. |
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Club Tap
1/278 Palmer St, Darlinghurst. 1st Sat
of month at The Tap Gallery.
Hosted by Robert Balas Ph: 9361 0440 |
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Poetry Alive
Thursday 11am - 1pm Liverpool Library,
Liverpool.
Contact Kathleen Robertson or Margaret Rossal on 9607 2541. |
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Darling Street
Books
Sunday fortnight 4pm - late.
648 Darling St, Balmain. All styles of writing. Contact Ben 9555 1749. |
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Poetry, Imagery and
Expression
Contact Daryl Hall PO Box 739,
Parramatta 2124. Established in 1984 to support poetry and prose original work.
Readings are held three to four times a year with anthologies of the readers’
work published. Readings are held in Parramatta Town Hall. |
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WEA Writers’
Group
2nd Sat of each month 1.30 pm
WEA Centre Bathurst St Sydney. An opportunity to read your work and obtain some
feedback. All writers welcome. Fiction, non-fiction, poetry. Stay for a coffee
and chat after the meeting.
Contact Carolyne Bruyn on 9550 5892 |
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North by North West
1st Thursday each month at 2
Cutler Parade North Ryde. Enquiries to Jenny Carter 9887 1856. |
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Bradbury Tavern
The Parkway,
Cambelltown 7.30, 3rd Monday Bi-Monthly,
contact Trevor Langlands on 462 62749 to further info. |
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Poets in the Making
This aspiring group
meets every first Sunday of the month at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre.
Convenor is David Price and you can contact him at 02 9825 0402.
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Square-Circle
The Rustic Cafe, corner of Crown
St and Devonshire St (straight up from the Railway Tunnel at Central) Surry
Hills, upstairs, first Sunday of each month (except major holidays), 6pm.
(Please bring copies of your poems). For info: Noël 9332-2886 (email:
philo@acay.com.au ), Marc 9517-1206.
Webpage:
www.homestead.com/noelshomepage2/index.html |
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| Tuggerah Lakes |
| Tuggerah Lakes Poets Society
Contact Bert Wylder 43584942 |
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On Radio
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POETICA PRESENTED BY MIKE LADD,
SATURDAY AT 3.05 PM, REPEATED 9.05 PM THURSDAY.
For further details please visit our website at www.abc.net.au/rn/poetica/
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| Red Room Radio |
| The Red Room Company creates, promotes and distributes poetry inspired projects, to the public. Using alternatives to traditional poetry production, such as community radio, the television, live installations and online projects we aim to re interpret the everyday, with poetry. Recent projects include Poetry Crimes, Toilet doors illustrated poem posters, national radio broadcasts through red room radio and the community radio satellite, and currently the creation of a poetic TV program 'The Wordshed', for the University of Western Sydney and TV Sydney. |
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Victoria
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| Geelong | Melbourne |
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Painters and Poets Club
the National Hotel 191 Moorabool Street, Geelong.
Saturdays 3pm - 5pm. Tel 03 5221 8874 |
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The Word Tree
1st Saturday each month, 3 to 5pm Burrinja Café, Burrinja Communiy Artspace, 351 Glenfern Road, Upwey.
Queries: Marianne Spires ph.9754 1363
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Boroondara Soiree
Held bimonthly at Hawthorn Town Hall, 358 Burwood Road, Hawthorn.
Featured writers and open mike. See "Things to Do:Events" at
www.boroondara.vic.gov.au
or ph: 03 9278 4770.
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Dan O'Connell Hotel
225 Canning Street, Carlton,
every Saturday from 2pm to 5 pm. Free. There is usually one feature reader plus
an open section.
Enq: 041 222 4655 |
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La Mama
La Mama Theatre, Faraday Street, Carlton.
Details and enquiries from Catherine Bateson 03 5422 6755.
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Melbourne Poets
Union Meetings
held at
Victorian Writers' Centre, First Floor, Nicholas Building, corner Swanston Street and Flinders Lane, on the last Friday of the month. Guests
welcome.
Entry $5/3 (includes drinks & supper). Guest features and workshops
alternate months. 9386 6259 |
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Babble
First Wednesday of each month upstairs, The Planet Cafe, 386-388 Brunswick St, Fitzroy. Bar open. 8.30pm $5
Ph: 9416 4440 |
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Spinning Room South
Tuesdays
at 8pm at E.T's, 211 High Street Prahran. Free.
ph. 9529
6902. |
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Passionate Tongues
First and third Monday each month, Noise Bar, 291 Albert Street,
Brunswick. Next to Brunswick railway station.
Queries Michael, ph.9328 8080 poetrymg@hotmail.com |
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The Archer Bar Poet's Society
Upstairs at the Archer Bar Cnr. Buckley & Leslie Sts. Essendon 7.30 pm $5.
Entry includes finger food. All open stage. |
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Westword
2nd and 4th Sundays at the Dancing Dog Café, 42 Albert St. Footscray, 5pm
to 8pm |
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Queensland
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| Brisbane | Sunshine Coast |
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SpeedPoets: Brisbane's hottest Open Mic session backed by the experimental sounds of Shooting People.
First Sunday, 2pm to 5:30pm @ The Alibi Room, 720 Brunswick St, Newfarm. Gold Coin Donation, Feature Artist, Free Zine and Poetry Raffle!
Contact Graham Nunn: 0423 781 723 / geenunn@yahoo.com.au or visit the website www.speedpoets.zap.to |
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Word Made Flesh
At
the Avid Reader Bookstore. 171 Boundary Street, West End. $5.
Ring Brett on 0413
131073 for enquiries. |
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Words against
the Grain
Poetry and Fiction at Cafe
Cedre 173 Beaudesert Road Moorooka Saturday afternoons at 2.30pm. Short open section each
time. Enquiries to Duncan Richardson 07 3379 3131. |
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| Sunshine Coast |
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ouTsideRs: The new home of poetry on The Sunshine Coast. 3rd Saturday. Open Mic, Feature Poets, Slam and Giveaways. 2:30pm to 5:30pm @ Alfresco, 777 Noosa Eumundi Rd. Doonan.
Contact The GhostBoy - www.outsiders.ws or call 0409 669 391 for details |
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South Australia
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| Adelaide | Gawler |
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Friendly Street Readings (going since 1972)
1st Tuesday of every month
7.30pm The Box Factory Regent St Adelaide. Guest and open reading. $2. |
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Gawler Public Library
Last Thur.of month. 6.30pm Guest poets and open. Call Martin Johnston 8522 2468
or Steven Williams 8521 1239 |
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Prince Albert Hotel
109 Murray St. Gawler. Last Sun of month. 1pm. Michael
Anthony 8283 3179 |
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Tasmania
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| Burnie | Hobart | Launceston |
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Europa Poets' Society Poetry Readings
2-4pm on the 1st Saturday of each month at Burnie Art Gallery, on the 2nd Sunday of the month at Two Oaks Nursery, Somerset. 2-4 p.m.and on the 3rd Sunday at Europa Cafe' Burnie. 2-4 p.m. Everyone welcome to read own work or favourites by other poets. |
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| Hobart |
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Republic Bar and Café
299 Elizabeth Street, North Hobart. First Sunday, 3-5 p.m. Featured readers plus open section.
Further information Robyn Mathison (03) 6234 4418 (evenings) or Liz Winfield leggs456@msn.com |
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Moorilla Museum of Antiquities
(655 Main Rd. Berriedale) is a new venue for poetry in Hobart. Bi-monthly readings on a Saturday afternoon 2 - 4 pm. |
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Cock and Bull British Pub
50 Wellington Street, Launceston
Second Monday 8 p.m. Open reading. The long-running Launceston Poetry Night. It's a new venue.
For further information contact Marilyn on 6327 4918 or 0417 145 537 |
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Poetry Pedlars
2nd Monday of every month, 7.30 pm, at Gallus Bar & Restaurant, 61 Cameron Street, Launceston. Open mike, and monthly competition with prize.
Contact Marilyn Arnold, Phone 63274918 or 0417 145 537.
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Western Australia
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Poet’s Corner
Third Saturday of each month
Guest readers plus open microphone. 2 pm to 5 pm.Free entry.
State Library Café – Pages.
Contact: Lily Chan, ph. 0400212068. Email: poetscornerwa@yahoo.com.au
Website: http://www.geocities.com/poetscornerwa
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WOW - Walking On Water
First Monday of each month
Guests readers plus open microphone.
7.30 pm to 10 pm.
$5 waged /$3 unwaged.
Upstairs at the Brisbane Hotel.
292 Beaufort St, Perth.
Contact: Jane Cornes at jcornes@iinet.net.au |
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Voicebox
First Thursday of each month
Guest readers plus open microphone.
7.30 pm.
La Tropicana Café.
High Street, Fremantle.
Contact: Desma Kearney 9336 2854 or Nandi 9331 1703 |
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Sunday at Toms
Last Sunday of each month.
3 pm to 5 pm
Tom Collins House,
88 Wood St, Swanbourne.
In the Allen Park Heritage Precinct.
Contact: Greg Cooper or Trisha Kotai Ewers 9384 4771 |
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Lunchlines
Every Friday during semester
12 pm to 1 pm.
Guest readers plus open readings.
Building 17, Room 102,
Edith Cowan University,
2 Bradford St, Mt Lawley.
Contact: Ffion Murphy 9370 6822 |
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WOW - World of Women
At The Eden, Upstairs, 84 Aberdeen St., Northbridge. WA. $4/$3. Open readers and performers. Bring some of your own work to read or perform. Everyone welcome (men and women).
1st Monday of every month. Contact Vicki: (08) 9342 3467 vwormald@student.cowan.edu.au
WOW committee needs the experience and enthusiasm of new committee members to ensure the continuation of these performance nights. Please contact us if you are able to assist. Call Marion 9371 6715, or Maureen - 9473 0684 mairs@iamwaiting.com
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