A Social Undertaking 25 Gresham St, Adelaide, SA 5000 (between Hindley St & North Tce)
Finally! For months we’ve been gathering your work, long and short, told you to make it shorter, darker, better and you responded.
So come along and pick up a copy of Paroxysm Press’s latest publication free on the night as well as our usual open mic and spooky cocktail/drink special/dodgy hosts.
FREE entry Spoken word open mic Book, cocktail and novelty raffle Beer special of the night
A Social Undertaking 25 Gresham St, Adelaide, SA 500 (between Hindley St & North Tce)
This is your last chance to submit your short, sharp pieces of literature to our hand crafted little zine. come along and read your little word bombs, listen to your fellow terrorists and participate in the first publication birthed exclusively from our spokenslurred mic.
Spoke N Slurred – The Zine will be a small (A5) old school zine publication. It will be photocopied. Short and sharp will get our attention. So will down and dirty.
We’ve decided to remind you that Paroxysm Press is a publisher that for nearly 30 years has been too stubborn to die. So we want to publish you.
Come along to our open mic and leave us a hard copy of your poem(s) to be considered for a limited edition zine that will be launched in October. That gives you 4 opportunities to submit. Poems can be printed or hand written. Kami can’t be fucked with email but kerryn would consider a screenshot.
If you can throw down a sketch or 2 on the night they will also be considered.
The theme is PAROXYSM*
So dig deep, look at the hard stuff, find the next level down. Then tell us why you’re still here.
A Social Undertaking 25 Gresham St, Adeaide, SA 500 (between Hindley St & North Tce)
They’re spinning around quickly so it’s time for the third round of submissions.
Spoke N Slurred – The Zine will be a small (A5) old school zine publication. It will be photocopied. Short and sharp will get our attention. So will down and dirty.
We’ve decided to remind you that Paroxysm Press is a publisher that for nearly 30 years has been too stubborn to die. So we want to publish you.
Come along to our open mic and leave us a hard copy of your poem(s) to be considered for a limited edition zine that will be launched in October. That gives you 4 opportunities to submit. Poems can be printed or hand written. Kami can’t be fucked with email but kerryn would consider a screenshot.
If you can throw down a sketch or 2 on the night they will also be considered.
The theme is PAROXYSM.
So dig deep, look at the hard stuff, find the next level down. Then tell us why you’re still here.
A huge thank you to author Lewis Woolston for their contribution to this month’s Spoke N Slurred raffle this Sunday 27/07, a copy of their brand new book The Everlasting. Go check it out and his other works:
A Social Undertaking 25 Gresham St (off Hindley St), Adelaide, SA 5000
Time for the second round of submissions. Spoke N Slurred – The Zine will be a small (A5) old school zine publication. It will be photocopied. Short and sharp will get our attention. So will down and dirty.
We’ve decided to remind you that Paroxysm Press is a publisher that for nearly 30 years has been too stubborn to die. So we want to publish you. Come along to our open mic and leave us a hard copy of your poem(s) to be considered for a limited edition zine that will be launched in October. That gives you 4 opportunities to submit. Poems can be printed or hand written. Kami can’t be fucked with email but kerryn would consider a screenshot. If you can throw down a sketch or 2 on the night they will also be considered.
The theme is PAROXYSM. So dig deep, look at the hard stuff, find the next level down. Then tell us why you’re still here.
A Social Undertaking 25 Gresham St, Adelaide (off Hindley St.)
We’ve decided to remind you that Paroxysm Press is a publisher that for nearly 30 years has been too stubborn to die. So we want to publish you.
Come along to our open mic and leave us a hard copy of your poem(s) to be considered for a limited edition zine that will be launched in October. That gives you 4 opportunities to submit. Poems can be printed or hand written. Kami can’t be fucked with email but Kerryn would consider a screenshot.
If you can throw down a sketch or 2 on the night they will also be considered.
The theme is PAROXYSM. So dig deep, look at the hard stuff, find the next level down. Then tell us why you’re still here.
It took him 22 years, but Adelaide writer/poet/zinester/friend Campbell “Kami” McInnes finally got around to writing another book. In anticipation of its arrival in the post, I reread his first two releases. Bunk Beds & Chilli Vodka is a (slightly) fictionalized account of the Paroxysm Press crew’s memorable weekend attending the 2001 National Young Writers Festival in Newcastle. Neither young nor sober, the trio caused chaos wherever they went, which makes for a very entertaining read. Helen and I were also at NYWF that weekend – in fact, we make cameo appearances in the book. Reading this Hunter S. Thompson-esque laff-fest brought back lots of fond memories.
Next up was S.F.&T. (aka Sucked, Fucked and Tattooed), a gritty look at a particular subculture that inhabited the inner-city pub scene in Adelaide back in the 1980s and 90s. I had forgotten much of it, but rereading this take-no prisoners novella, I could identify a few of the characters and venues. There is a semi autobiographical feel to the sordid life of drunken record store owner and fuck-up Jason. S.F.&T. rattles along at a fair clip. Oddly, the book sets itself up for a happy ending (of sorts), then suddenly hits the reader with a gut punch in the last two paragraphs that had me thinking, “Fuck! What just happened?”
So I moved onto Fists of Love, a sequel to S.F.&T., which sees Jason driving his slightly psycho ex Cindy back to Queensland so she can be with her family. Cindy is dying from cancer and Jason is the only person she can trust to get her home safely. Adventures happen along the way, most notably Jason unexpectedly bumping into his deadbeat dad. Like the first book, the sequel managed to hold my attention throughout. And then came the ending. As I wrote to Kami soon afterwards, “I woke up at 2am and couldn’t sleep for an hour thinking about your book. Fuck you. You got me with that last paragraph before the epilogue, you bastard. Excuse me while I wipe this grit from eyes.”
Kami remains one of the great underground writers in this country and it is really worth your time picking up all three books at ParoxysmPress.com.
A Social Undertaking 25 Gresham St, Adelaide, SA 5000
We don’t resurrect the dead, we write songs about their murders. Join us as we pay tribute to some of the best Murder Ballads from across the ages. From their origins in Olde English through the Appalachian folk traditions to more modern entries in the genre, get your momento mori fix with us at the best little undertaker’s bar in town.
Featuring: Ian Gibbins Kami Matthew Pankhurst Mei Szetu Kerryn Tredrea
A Social Undertaking 25 Gresham St, Adelaide SA 5000, off Hindley St & North Tce
FREE entry Spoken Word OPEN MIC Book raffle Lotsa booze including a ‘beer of the month’ Spoke N Slurred special thanks to A Social Undertaking.
Kathryn Reese is a poet living on Peramangk land in Adelaide, South Australia. She works in medical microbiology and enjoys solo road trips, hiking and chasing frogs to record their calls for science. Her poems can be found in The Engine Idling, Epistemic Literary, Kelp Journal and Australian Poetry Journal. She was a winner of the Red Room Poetry’s #30in30 competition & the Heroines Women’s Writing Prize 2024.
