Friday, December 14, 2012

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! in December at The Phoenix Pub


AK-Pajamas at BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!
BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! ended 2012 with wholemeal bread.
Wholemeal 1st prize at BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!
And burlesque from Penelope Asterisk.
Penelope Asterisk at BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!
Who wowed the crowd into silence and generated much cheering.
Penelope Asterisk lifts heavy weight at BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!
At least one song about being from Canberra, along with plenty of singing and guitar from returned Canberra Son Tom Woodward.
Tom Woodward at BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!
For part of Bad!Slam!No!Biscuit! Tom Woodward is part of what makes the Phoenix part of what it is to be part of Canberra.
Charlie at BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!
That part thing being the home of competition over wholemeal bread and poetry slam in the Canberra.
We had two 1st prizes of wholemeal bread.
That is how awesome BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is.
That does not make any sense at all!
MC B.B.Farkas
Along with plenty of angry, sometimes rhyming, heaps of arm waving, a bit of pointing, funny voices, one whacky suit, and always sometimes shouting words and a diminishing supply of vest.
Lachlan engages all economists in the room
This person stole a new name for herself.
The new Laura Cordelia
Bad!Slam!No!Biscuit! has given up on you having to actually win to steal names, the person who no longer has that name is very upset because she is getting married soon.
A first time BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! performer
Thanks to Adam Thomas for all these photos and all the other photos, thanks poets, audience, The Phoenix Pub, prize sponsors: Impact Comics, The Games Capital, Smiths Alternative Bookshop/Store/Front Organisation, and thanks The RiotACT.
Worthwhile Jones was very very angry
about not winning the magic the Gathering cards
We start next year with poetry from anyone who walks into the Phoenix and gets on stage.
The very 1st December BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! 1st prize

Saturday, December 08, 2012

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! at The Phoenix Pub on 12 December in Canberra

Poster by Anne Lander

The December BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! will be at the special time of the 2nd Wednesday of December.

So bring your words, your audience, your judges, your to do lists, your fridges, your poems, to The Phoenix Pub for prizes! Because we give you a stage, two microphones, two MCs, The Master of Conflict, The Score Adder, The Sacrificial Poet and 2 Minutes on stage for Prizes.

This December Bad!Slam!No!Biscuit! also brings you two feature acts:

Penelope Asterisk
Burlesque strong-woman Penelope Asterisk is guaranteed to be able to bench press not only more than any poet can, but likely all the poets in the Phoenix.

A writer, musician and general dilettante, Tom has been all these things since he was ten. Now twenty-eight his career as a writer, musician and general dilettante turns eighteen. Happy birthday to you, miserable life!

So join BAD!SLAM!N!OBISCUIT! on the 2nd Wednesday of December for the final poetry slam of 2012, for prizes, for glory, for stanza, for the sacrifice of it all, there will be bourbon, oh Bad!Slam! knows there will be bourbon.

Wednesday, December 05, 2012

The Disappearing


The Red Room Company has published my poem The Max as part of their project The Disappearing, a phone app that maps Australia with poems.

There is guaranteed to be at least one sausage in there, at least one poem with no meat products, and definitely one trouser eating poem.

So download the application and read the words, or with the correct equipment throw a digital person down a hole.