Sunday 30th October 2022
from 5:30pm

Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide

Nicki Bullock is also known as Dirty Nickers, possibly for her dirty mind or dirty mouth or variety of reasons we won’t go in to here, or mayhap because she is not afraid of dirty laundry, saying the things others prefer to remain unspoken, airing the secrets you are not supposed to talk of, abhorring censorship and this easily offended culture – for giving respect is different from taking offense; something that seems grossly misinterpreted these days. Her anger at the fuckedupedness of the world comes from a place of love for all the awesomeness; ‘in loving anger’ being the the theme of her ever-unfinished album she is working on and her current spoken word performance she will deliver. Unable to stay in any box, she has been given a vast array of labels: a happy psychedelic hillbilly; a foul-mouthed, crass punk; bike-riding brat; an idealistic hippy and acid-casualty artist; a rainbow explosion of chaos – ever evolving, defying description, spitting out words on stage is a rarer thing for Dirty Nickers these days, this Spoken Slurred will be her first spoken word performance of the year and she’s got lots of love and anger for you.

>> FREE entry 
>> open mic 
>> book raffle 
>> … beer

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Sunday 25th September 2022
from 5:30pm

Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide

The time has come again! There is no guest this month. But we will be randomly selecting someone from the open mic to grab themselves $50.

>> FREE entry 
>> open mic 
>> book raffle 
>> … beer

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Sunday 28th August 2022
from 5:30pm

Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide

The time is coming to get some more Sunday slurred action with a guest spot worthy of our ways…

Jay Simunov is an Adelaide “poet” who writes about bipolar disorder, longing to be kissed by attractive strangers, and revolutionary guerilla warfare. His work is inspired by the inflammatory political poetics of writers like Amiri Baraka and Sean Bonney as well as the work of social undesirables excluded from the respectable artworld such as the schizophrenic photographer David Nebreda, various repulsive internet cretins, and people who scrawl profanity in public bathrooms. He has never won an award for his poetry.

>> FREE entry 
>> open mic 
>> book raffle 
>> … beer

Click here for the Facebook event.

Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide

Sunday July 31st 2022
from 5.30pm

FREE entry
open mic
book raffle
… beer

Having worn many hats, Tracy McNally, aka Coogs, has a few tales to tell, most of them too loud and about inappropriate things. In 2018, she donned the spoken word hat and, finding it rather suited her, has staunchly refused to take it off ever since. Tracy is a three-time state finalist in the Australian Poetry Slam competition and regularly features across Adelaide’s open mic poetry scene. She wears her spoken word hat tilted at a jaunty angle while serving dark humour and brutal honesty. Giving voice to shared insecurities and inconvenient truths, Tracy explores influences in her life such as motherhood and mental illness.

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Sunday 27th February, 2022
from 5.30pm.

Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide.

Paul Kohn is a writer of poetry and short stories, performer of spoken word, and creator of music and lyrics. Residing in South Australia, he’s featured at The Good Word and West Side Petry Slam. Most recently placing third in the 2021 SA Winter Slam, he placed first in the July 2020 Ruckus Monthly Slam. His words have been published in Black Bough, Anti Heroin Chic, RDW World, and the Poetry at the Pub Anthology 2021. Paul writes as a way of processing, understanding, healing and growing, and shares his written and spoken word poetry all over Australia and the world in the hope that it helps others too.

>> FREE entry
>> open mic
>> book raffle

While Spoke N Slurred has been taking some time off due to Covid, we have taken this opportunity to support our friends over at Spoken Word SA by donating the book prizes for Summer Slam 2022.

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SUNDAY 8th August, 2021
from 5:30pm

Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide

>> FREE entry
>> Open mic
>> Book raffle
>> Cheap booze

Carissa Fischer is a performance poet, born and raised in roaring Radelaide. With the use of lyrical language, upbeat tone and metaphoric prose, they explore intersectional identities, and how to navigate these landscapes in their self described coming of age journey. Creating poems and writing creatively since age 15, Carissa has immersed themselves in the poetry scene. Testing the waters, they performed at FEAST’s Queer Youth Underground in 2018 and 2019, officially debuting in 2019 as a feature poet at Draw Your (S)words. They have since performed at the University’s Senior College Fringe Showcase 2020, and spoke at Better Together, closing the national conference with a poetry set. Still navigating the poetry scene, and coming into their own as an artist, Carissa views their poems as a work in progress.

Sunday 27th June 2021
from 5:30pm

Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide

KAMI. One of the original Paroxysm Press 98ers. National tourer. Two time Australian Poetry Slam national finalist. One of the founders of Spoken Word SA. Three books to his name. Former booze hound. Now sober as a judge.

>> FREE entry
>> open mic
>> cheap booze
>> book raffle

Click here for the Facebook Event.