Sunday, September 23, 2012

ACT Australian Poetry Slam Heat One



THIS IS THE INVITATION TO THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY (ACT) AUSTRALIAN POETRY SLAM HEAT NUMBER ONE!

Heat Number One will be held at The Front Gallery and Cafe and is brought to you by your friendly BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! Team.

The top five poets from Heat Number One will go into the ACT Australian Poetry Slam Final for the chance to represent the ACT at the Australian Poetry Slam in Sydney. But this is not the only reason to be at this extraordinary event...

THE MASTER OF CONFLICT – WHO HATES POETRY BUT LOVES POETS – WILL BE AN MC AT THIS EVENT SO YOU SHOULD BE THERE TOO!

YOU SHOULD ALSO BRING YOUR POEM TO PERFORM, OR ALL YOUR JUDGEMENT FOR THE JUDGING!

Sign-up opens at 730pm and closes when The Score Adder says it is closed!

Not only is there all that, but we have a special guest Sacrificial Poet in the formation of THE FLYING V!

And our feature poet for the evening is Bela Farkas
A Canberra writer and performer, Bela has featured at BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! and Cannibal Kittens showcases. With The Tragic Troubadours he has performed at the Canberra Fringe, National Folk, and YouAreHere festivals. He is also studying for a degree in Writing from the University of Canberra and writes poetry and short plays. He also has an understanding of Chair Guy.

There are exciting special rules for this Australian Poetry Slam Heat, go to http://australianpoetryslam.com/ to read them. Details of heats two and three, as well as the final, can be found there too.

The ACT Australian Poetry Slam events are brought to you by:

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! which can normally be found in The Phoenix Pub on the third Wednesday of every month!

Saturday, September 15, 2012

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!



BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! wakes from torpor to bring you the GODZILLA edition.
RAR! FLAMES! LAZER EYES!

You may not know why, Why, WHY!

So bring your poems, your rants, your really short stories, your WHY did they have a baby Godzilla cartoon to BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

Because we want your words on stage for two minutes with two microphones, an audience in front, The Score Adder, the Sound Guy, two MCs, THE MASTER OF CONFLICT, maybe a Mister of Conflict, numerous 1st prizes, all within easy reach of a bar full of alcohol, and several toilets.

Yes toilets; RAR! FLAMES! LAZER EYES!

We also bring you two feature acts for the re-birth of the GODZILLA BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

FEATURE ACT ONE IS

Straight from the Ellis Collective to the stage for you Matty Ellis takes an unconventional approach to storytelling that recounts the jagged-edged disappointments of everyday life, his songs are undeniably unique and unmistakably Australian.

FEATURE ACT TWO IS

CJ Bowerbird is a performance poet. He writes and performs poems about things he has lost, things he never had and things that are slipping through his fingers. He too is unmistakably Australian.

LIKE GODZILLA
RAR! FLAMES! LAZER EYES!

So join BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! at the Phoenix for poetry, music, drinking, FIRST PRIZES, and remember no props, no musical accompaniment, and your words at the Phoneix, 730pm sign-up for the 8pm start.

Sunday, September 09, 2012

Poems published in Chile, and Bill Clinton and I support interstellar travel


Revista Laboratorio Nro. 6 was published last week out of the School of Literature at the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile. The journal includes essays, interviews, sound poetry, visual poetry, and (for want of a better description) page poetry.

I have two poems in the journal's Creacion section: THREE SENRYŪ BY GOOD STICKYTAPE MONSTER and Duck Part 1.

In other news, Bill Clinton supports human interstellar travel, as do I.

Bill salutes
Bill’s pro-interstellar space travel statement referring to the 100-Year Starshipinitiative, a project started by the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to research interstellar travel includes, “This important effort helps advance the knowledge and technologies required to explore space, all while generating the necessary tools that enhance our quality of life on earth….”

Friday, September 07, 2012

Poetry & two weeks


In Brisbane:

SpeedPoets last Saturday was loads of fun, both performing a set of poems and listening to new poetry, so thank you very much Graham Nunn and SpeedPoets for having me feature.

I stole this picture
This Saturday night I have a small fun part to play in the Page vs. Stage Poetry Slam at the Brisbane Writers Festival, and Sunday I am featuring at Jam Jar Poetry. Jam Jar is a poetry slam in the round with no microphone, run by Darkwing Dubs it has even more poets to listen to. A Café Kitchen Hip Hop group, Harmaphonics, will be featuring, so I am looking forward to hearing rhymes about entrées, health inspectors, tea-towels, and the heat under the condensate hood (Yeah, I’ve been in the kitchen and I managed to work my way out in a rags to riches story too); it’s gonna be rad. MC Kudos is another of the feature acts:

None of my poems are in anyway Hip Hop so I am looking forward to the mix.

The rest of the two weeks has been filled with walking, sun, finding all the comic book and non-comic book shops of the Brisbane Central Business District, some poetry at the Queensland Poetry Festival, and hanging out with Tessa and Hadley and Harry, as well as drinking coffee, and seeing some of the Brisbane people who are really nice. I have not caught up with everyone I had hoped to but I did have dinner with Doubting Thomas and Scott Sneddon, both really good to spend time with and I enjoyed seeing them again.