PAROXYSM PRESS

“Fists of Love” by Kami – Book Launch!!

Sunday 17th November 2024
doors open at 3:00pm for 4:00pm start

Kami is back on the page! After two novellas and a book of poetry we bring you his novel FISTS OF LOVE. And, hell it is good! His best work yet.

Come along for an afternoon of Paroxysm spoken word and readings followed by some rockin’ tunes from Get Some.

FREE ENTRY

FISTS OF LOVE $30.

Kami’s first two novellas in one volume will be available for $20 or for only $10 with the purchase of his new book. Plus a huge range from the Paroxysm Press back catalogue.

Spoken word from Kerryn Tredrea and Nadia Patterson.

Musical madness from Get Some: “snake between early punk rock snarl, a pounding backbeat and a sense of swagger and defiance.” – Bandcamp

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Mei Szetu at Spoke N Slurred

A Social Undertaking
25 Gresham Street, Adelaide (off Hindley).

Sunday 27 October 2024
from 5.30pm

The second Spoke N Slurred at our new, temporary home at the fantastic laneway bar – A Social Undertaking with guest performer, Mei Szetu.

Spoken word OPEN MIC
FREE entry
Book raffle
Booze, booze and more booze

Mei Szetu is most recently known for winning the SA Final of the 2024 Australian Poetry Slam and going on to compete at the National Final at the Sydney Opera House.

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Apolo at Spoke N Slurred

Sunday 29th September 2024
From 5.30pm

A Social Undertaking
25 Gresham Street, Adelaide (off Hindley St)

The first Spoke N Slurred at our new, temporary home at the fantastic laneway bar – A Social Undertaking.

** Spoken word OPEN MIC
** FREE entry
** Book raffle
** Booze, booze and more booze

Guest performer: Apolo

APOLO god of prophecy, music and healing, offers his wisdom as a link between gods and man alike. With an intellect as far reaching as the arrows shot from a silver bow, he is said to be the first god to teach mortals the healing arts including that of poetry. It is thought that he is to help humans achieve their full potential with his gifts of enlightenment. When man journeyed to the heavens, they fittingly named their mission to the moon Apolo, after the god who inspired mankind to reach for the stars.

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“A Social Undertaking” – new temporary home for Spoke N Slurred

Spoke N Slurred has a new, temporary home – A Social Undertaking on 25 Gresham St off Hindley St.

Not only is Paroxysm Press well familiar with their establishment but their crew have been regular punters at SnSd. There will be two more Spoke N Slurred sessions before the end of the year: Sundays September 29th & October 27th.

November will be reserved for a very special event we’ll fill you in on soon and we always take December off. We can’t wait for you to see these great digs and meet the supportive people behind it. And don’t worry, we hope to have Bryan from Broadcast Bar on board slinging beers with own his brand of grumpy charm.

www.asocialundertaking.com/

Farewell to the Broadcast Bar…

It is nearly time to say goodbye to the Broadcast Bar!

The whole building is set to be torn down and this Sunday, August 25th, will be the last Spoke N Slurred in its current home (featuring Avalanche, 66A Grote Street from 5.30pm).

But fear not Paroxysm people, Bryan has had many a venue over the years and there will be another soon enough. And with it a new home for our monthly event. But please do come along and see this legendary dive bar off in style!

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Avalanche at Spoke N Slurred

Sunday 25th August 2024
from 5.30pm

Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide SA 5000

FREE ENTRY
Spoken word OPEN MIC
Book raffle
Cheap booze

Guest performer AVALANCHE

“Why Avalanche? Because it’s a force of nature and does whatever it wants to, including reshaping stuff, the ultimate landscaper. Depending on the day of the week, it could also be a Leonard Cohen reference. Gotta love the Leonard! It’s a name I came up with for myself a few hundred years ago, kinda like them Apache chiefs of old – see, they’d get given a name when they were kids, and then change it as they grew up. I was kind of a molehill when I was little, apparently… Now I’m a mountain getting its rocks off!!!!”

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Tegan Sabine at Spoke N Slurred

Sunday 28 July 2024
from 5.30pm

Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide

FREE ENTRY
Spoken word OPEN MIC
Book raffle
Cheap booze

Guest Tegan Sabine: When Tegan took their first wobbly steps at eleven-months-old, they had no idea they’d be stepping on so many stages. When they wrote their name backwards and barely legible in kindergarten, they had no clue they’d dedicate decades to words. Today, they’re still tripping on their toes, and scrawly in their scribings. Tegan has been writing poetry since thirteen, and performing since nineteen. They’ve shared their work at open mics and slams all over Adelaide in the seven years since.

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Koraly Dimitriadis at Spoke N Slurred

Sunday 30th June 2024
from 5.30pm.

Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide

SPOKEN WORD OPEN MIC
FREE ENTRY
Book raffle
Cheap booze

Koraly Dimitriadis will be joining us as part of her national tour of Australia + New Zealand, launching her new poetry book, She’s Not Normal. Koraly is a bestselling Cypriot-Australian poet of the poetry books Love and Fk Poems (also translated into Greek) and Just Give Me The Pills. Her debut short story collection The Mother Must Die, is forthcoming with Puncher and Wattmann in 2024. She also makes films and theatre with her poems, and her latest film Yiayia mou (my grandmother) is currently streaming on SBS. In 2019 she was the recipient of the UNESCO City of Literature residency in Krakow for her debut fiction manuscript. Koraly’s opinion articles and essays have been published widely across Australia with international publications in The Washington Post, The Guardian and Aljazeera.

See more about Koraly and her work at: https://koralydimitriadis.com/

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Farewell, Alison …

Alison performs at the launch of *Spitting Teeth* at the Adelaide Uni Bar in 2019.
Pic: Ian Gibbins

Alison Paradoxx (Bennett) has parted ways with this world, from Paroxysm Press, from all of us. It’s been so hard to find the words or to bring myself to say them. She fought the good fight for so very long it seems somehow impossible that she isn’t still with us.

Paroxysm Press first felt her impact on the microphone. Her passionate and fiery words that moved us, inspired us and filled us to overflowing with emotion. Alison very quickly became a Paroxysm regular. We were honoured to take the next step and publish her in print, as one of the four authors in the book Spitting Teeth.

Alison was an amazingly talented writer, performer and artist. She was one of nicest, purest and most awe inspiring people I’ve ever known. She was our friend.

The world is now less of a place. May her words live forever.

With absolute love,

Daniel Watson and all at Paroxysm Press.

Matilda Menz at Spoke N Slurred

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.

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