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.
Click here for details, rules, and other vital information.
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
Well, February – March is traditional Adelaide Fringe time and you know what that means… So Paroxysm Press is striking out with its own fiercely independent festival of all the usual Spoke n Slurred madness with less obscenity, unless requested… Get these Thursdays in your diary and support the local spoken word community!
All events at the Broadcast Bar, 66A Grote Street, Adelaide, starting at 7:00pm.
There’ll be a fabulous guest performer each night with an open mic, raffles to support the artists, and the Broadcast Bar will be open for service.
Thursday 25th February: Piers Diprose
Thursday 4th March: Tracey “Coogs” McNally
Thursday 11th March: Kathy Parker
Thursday 18th March: Themba Shumba
Okay, 2020 you win!
Spoke n Slurred returns
Sunday, 31 January, 2021
5:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide
FREE ENTRY
Open Mic
Book raffle
$6 beer
$5 bourbons and vodkas
Click here for the facebook event.
Chris Jaksa is new to the scene but has already blown us away by taking out the #2 spot in the SA leg of the Australian Poetry Slam and finishing in the top 5 of the Australian Poetry Slam final streamed on-line.
Let’s all hope for a better new year and we’ll see you then.
BUT it’s a great time to get back to our ‘Lockdown Facebook group‘ to post us your spoken word…
SPITTING TEETH is starting to hit the shelves! It is available right now at Dymocks Adelaide, Clarity Records and Imprints Booksellers with more stores to come.
If you are not in Adelaide, you can buy SPITTING TEETH (and other Paroxysm Press publications) from www.ozmusicbooks.com, our Australian online retailer.
For overseas customers, SPITTING TEETH can be purchased from:
www.bookdepository.com
www.barnesandnoble.com
www.amazon.com
Four brilliant authors in one amazing book: Paroxysm Press launches SPITTING TEETH.
Friday, November 8th, 2019.
8:00pm
UniBar, University of Adelaide.
Click here for the Facebook event.
ISBN 9781876502249
$19.00 Aus. ($15 at the launch); $13.00 USD; 10.00 GBP; 12.00 EUR.
Available retail from 9/11/2019.
Adelaide stores include Dymocks Rundle Mall, Dymocks Glenelg, Imprints Booksellers, Clarity Records and Streetlight.
Online will include Barnes and Noble, Book Depository and Amazon.
Ashlee Karlar is a spoken word poet, writer and social worker. A former competitor in the Australian poetry slam, a previous poet in residence and a regular feature performer at open mics across Adelaide, Ashlee’s poetry is a cocktail of satirical social commentary and self love odes. A tequila enthusiast, she is also known for her borderline obsessive love of cats.
Alison Paradoxx is a Producer, Performance Poet, Event Host, Peace Foundation Award Winner, Disability Advocate, and State Poetry Slam Champion. She has performed everywhere from The Sydney Opera House, to The Crown and Anchor.
Her first solo production, Floral Peroxide, sold out its 2019 Adelaide Fringe season, won an award, and received a grant to show interstate. She is still getting her head around that one. Alison is currently learning to play the musical saw. She also creates electronic sound art with her partner, 5000AD, and twelve of her vertebrae are made of titanium. Her hair is bigger than yours. She loves you for buying this book. Go make friends with her on Instagram @alison.paradoxx, Facebook or Web: www.alisonparadoxx.com
Chiara Gabrielli is a queer artist living and working on Wurundjeri land. She has her fingers in many pies working as an actor, writer, theatre-maker and poet. Her mum is most proud of her work performing in the Ruby Award winning South Australian State Theatre Company’s production ‘Gorgon’, representing South Australia at the Sydney Opera House in the 2017 Australian National Poetry Slam, and being selected as the Adelaide City Library Poet in Residence. To be in the know on all her small gigs that make up an arts career, and also for just some gelati content, follow her on instagram at chiara.witha.ch or on facebook artist page.
Nico is a finger guns poet who kicks arse, self doubts, loves a beer and isn’t afraid to tell you when you’re acting like an arsehole. Won a shit ton of money in a huge slam but is just too good to be fucked anymore.
Yes, we know that the website is not working well at the moment, and is sometimes not available. The problem is complicated and largely outside our control. However, we hope to have a solution soon. Thanks for your patience…
For Round 2 of the Paroxysm Press Showcase Series, we give you “The Random Sequence”.
Saturday 23rd February, 2019
7:00 – 8:30pm
Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide
Kathy Parker is many things; most of which will never amount to anything, but that’s never stopped her from giving her best 40 percent effort anyway. Recently she traded her Netflix addiction for a therapist and has been delighted to see how both her productivity and drinking have increased. She writes poems about her effed-up life so others will feel better about theirs and is forever in search of sleep and black market gin.
Servo-clerk, festival cash wrangler and occasional research assistant, with honors in English and History, Ben Adams also occasionally scribbles poetry and other things, including a stint as speechwriter for bleeding-heart Roman Emperor Claudius in 48AD during his wittily barbed address to Rome’s Senate urging the admittance of new Gallic immigrants by that esteemed institution. Ben remains skeptically hopeful of the empire’s ability to foster a peaceful, diverse and cosmopolitan society, despite current setbacks.6 Feb. at 2:07 pm
Tracey Korsten mostly uses poetry as a way to stave off the existential dread of on-line dating. The highlight of her portfolio career was once sitting as President on a Darts Appeal Tribunal. She is currently working on a screenplay and on getting her shit together. Neither project is looking crash hot at this juncture.
The Half Artist was born from a voluntary inability to be satisfied artistically. It is best to not approach him without an offer of an alcoholic beverage. Full strength beer is optimal.
Dick Dale has ate 10 dozen oysters in one sitting, kicked pop singer, Henry Rollins out of his gutter and bumbled his way through a few spoken word events. He has sung and been hospitalized in more than a few high energy punk rock and hardcore musical groups and curated the nastiest short film program, Trasharama since 1997. His main passion though is through the medium of short silly films. Tonight he will bring you a selection from his home made classic video nasty library. brilliant!
Colin Bramwell is a Scotish stranger with a 5 star review. He is our surprise bomb. Miss him and you’ll be crying in your jocks.
Here’s some of the action from the ‘20 Years of Paroxysm Press‘ gig held at the Broadcast Bar, 11th August, 2018.
Brilliant spoken word from Alison Bennett, Nico and Kami and a little history behind Paroxysm from a drunken publisher, Daniel Watson. Vid made by Ian Gibbins.
Paroxysm Press simply refuses to die; we will not back down, we will not go away. Every year we get bigger, every year we expand our audience and (most importantly) our much valued, much loved cult following. Like-minded writers from around the world now gather here with us to fight for the power of words. Bigger name authors stand by our side even when the rewards are less than they can receive elsewhere because they too believe in the hard, tough, true to life material we publish. They see Paroxysm fight against a world it can never beat – but they stay anyway – because they can see the fire in our eyes.