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Sunday 29th March 2026 
from 5:30 pm

A Social Undertaking
25 Gresham St, Adelaide, SA 5000 (between Hindley St & North Tce)

Don’t be too emo about a Danless spoke ‘n slurred,(he’s off gallivanting in Japan)we still have all of the usual stuff and nonsense. 

We are very pleased to have a champion of brevity as our feature poet, Geoffrey Aitken. 

Geoffrey Aitken is a minimalist poet driven by four parts prescription medication as he determines what his lived experience entitles him to in streetwear, while with others in open mic venues, no longer believing the stars are actually in play. His full Bio pays respects and gratitude to the Kaurna land custodians of the unceded Adelaide Plains. He could be a Himbo if he were allowed to stray.

FREE entry
Spoken word open mic
Book, cocktail and novelty raffle
Paroxysm beer special of the night thanks to A Social Undertaking

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Sunday 25th January 2026 
from 5:30 pm

A Social Undertaking
25 Gresham St, Adelaide, SA 5000 (between Hindley St & North Tce)

For something a little different your resident MC and publisher Daniel Watson will be hitting you up with some short fiction from the anthology ‘Blood‘.

Copies ‘Blood‘ available for only $15 on the night.

FREE entry
Spoken word open mic
Book, cocktail and novelty raffle
Paroxysm beer special of the night

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Sunday 25 February 2024
from 5.30pm

Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide

OPEN MIC
FREE ENTRY
Book raffle

For anyone looking to make a bigger day of it then come to the venue early for the Sunday Service where you can spin your own vinyl.

My name is Marty and I got into poetry when I was very young due to my father being a poet. As I grew I discovered my own passions and developed into a rapper. In 2021 I got back into poetry when I was invited to a poetry open mic by some friends. Since then I’ve been non-stop. I’m fascinated by poetry, art and all types of expression. I hope that my poems can entertain, shock, soothe, discomfort, comfort, give clarity too and confuse the audience all at the same time.

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Friday 17th March 2023
7:30 – 10:30 pm

Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide

Join us for THE essential Paroxysm gig of the year. The launch of the second book of Kerryn Tredrea poetry, ‘this is no ordinary rapture…’

Launched by Heather Taylor-Johnson + spoken word from Nadia Patterson + tunes from an acoustic El Bottle O Paradiso.

FREE entry.

Books $15 on the night.

“Kerryn Tredrea writes about lust, madness, loneliness and connection as if they were the same thing. Tethered to her distinctive voice is a poetry donning worn-out doc martins keeping step with junkies, the poet insisting i find my window of opportunity / and look through to the red light district. Her style is consistent, and as she recognises risk-taking and mistake-making as a part of life, she comes out a sage: everything has / the smell of coffee / about it / and the feeling of / a biting snake, / sharp / and to the point.” – Heather Taylor-Johnson

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Sunday 29th January 2023
from 5:30pm

Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide

Luke Baker is a spoken word poet; photographer; and performer. He invites you to find deeper meanings beyond the surface of common things; moments; and your inner worlds. In Luke’s first year exploring the spoken word scene, he has featured at several events; The Good Word; Speak, Hear; Mixed Bag Poetry; and Hush Bar in Airlie beach Queensland. 2023 holds many exciting doorways for Luke. He is ready to move forward with focus to deepen new found friendships in the poetry community, and to set the stage for a meaningful career in the arts.

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

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Luke Baker on Facebook

Luke Baker on Instagram

Event image contains photography by Martin Christmas

Kerryn Tredrea does poems. Her second collection of said poems will be the next Paroxysm Press publication. She will also be taking a 6 month stint hosting the mad ship Spoke N Slurred from March ’23.

Meanwhile, see her perform live at Spoke n Slurred…

Sunday 27 November 2022
from 5.30pm
Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide.

Free entry and open mic.

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

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