Sunday 26 May 2024
from 5.30pm
Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide
OPEN MIC
FREE ENTRY
Book raffle
Cheap booze
Matilda is an old Teutonic name meaning ‘mighty battle maid’, it also refers to a swag and she’s coming out waltzing. Unpublished and unapologetic, Matilda brings a poetic license to her works. A spirit of life imitating art, or is the other way around? Performing pieces on her feet and hands, come witness the spoken word stylings of Matilda.
Sunday 28 April 2024
from 5.30pm
Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide
OPEN MIC
FREE ENTRY
Book raffle
Cheap booze
Sarah Pearce is a poet, editor and researcher from Tarndanya (Adelaide). Her work has been published in various journals and anthologies, including Best of Australian Poems 2023. She has performed at festivals, held residencies locally and interstate and is currently completing a Literary Fellowship at the State Library of South Australia, experimenting with found poetry and ecopoetics. She writes about embodiment, the Gothic, queer experience, mental and physical health and the environment.
Sunday 24 March 2024
from 5.30pm
[ one week early due to Easter ]
Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide
OPEN MIC
FREE ENTRY
Book raffle
Cheap booze
Liam Wooley is an emerging musician and poet currently living in Tarntarnya (Adelaide), South Australia. He writes and speaks to anyone who’ll read and listen about a range of different topics, including but not limited to love in all its forms, the process of writing, human rights, and living despite, at times, the best efforts of your body. He’s currently taking time off regular work for health reasons and hasn’t updated his resume in a while, but when he does it’ll include things like “former reader of books during English class that weren’t on the syllabus”, “maker of new friends on public transport”, and “hopeless romantic”, and he will forever defend putting that last one in the “strengths” paragraph. He had one poem published in a journal at 16 and nothing since, but is looking to publish a collection of his work some time in the near future.
HUGE news Paroxysm people in Melbourne. Kerryn Tredrea is touring your sweet city and bringing with her your first chance to grab a copy of her latest book ‘this is no ordinary rapture…‘ (Paroxysm Press).
There are two great chances to see her perform live: First cab off the ranks is Cherry Poets at The Cherry Tree Hotel on Saturday 17 February 2024 from 1.30pm.
www.facebook.com/events/1420934578824419
This is followed soon after by Poetryspective on Tuesday 20 February 2024 from 7.30pm.
www.facebook.com/events/1313013462696175
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.
Sunday 28 January 2024
from 5.30pm
Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide
OPEN MIC
FREE ENTRY
Book raffle
Amelia Walker is a poet who lives and works on Kaurna Yerta, also known as Adelaide, South Australia. She has published five poetry collections, most recently alogopoesis, and three books of poetry writing activities for educational and community settings, based on her work as a poet in schools and with arts-health projects. She currently lectures in courses on poetry, short fiction, and literary studies at the University of South Australia, and is contracted with Bloomsbury for a forthcoming academic book about creative writing’s interconnections with social power.
Sunday 26th November 2023
from 5:30pm
Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide
Known by his stage name Lexis Vhi, Alex Vansilalom uses poetry to express his experiences through storytelling, gothic imagery and analogies. In trying to understand his emotions more broadly and deeply, he often explores negative emotions and themes of connection, infatuation and inspiration. Lexis is obsessed with the importance of storytelling and its essential role in passing down knowledge in a way that inspires humanity. Wanting to break the boundaries of popularised, conventional spoken word and more classical, or traditional poetry, Lexis continues to explore the power and influence of finding your own voice. Lexis founded Social Hearts Club – a monthly open mic night and club for artists to gather. He hopes that people who feel isolated with their words and art can find a place to share their words with like-minded individuals.
>> FREE entry
>> open mic
>> book raffle
>> … booze
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.
Sunday 29th October 2023
from 5:30pm
Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide
A very talented guest performer, a heap of open mic and one very sketchy MC/publisher recently returned from exploring the world.
Drew Cuffley is a writer of short stories, essays, and, of course, poetry. He had performed spoken word since May last year and quickly took to it. Inspired by hiphop and rap his style varies by often has complex rhyme schemes, fun word play and a healthy dose of humour.
>> FREE entry
>> open mic
>> book raffle
>> … booze
Click here for the Facebook event.
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.
‘this is no ordinary rapture…‘ by Kerryn Tredrea is now available online for $16 through OZ Music Books at the link below:
In Adelaide, it is now also in Dymocks Rundle Mall, Clarity Records and Streetlight Records.
“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
And a huge thank you to Red Wallflower Photography for another amazing cover pic. https://www.facebook.com/RedWallflower/
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