Word Co-op |
19:30 to 21:30, Saturday 15 March
The ANU Co-op Food Store
3 Kingsley Street, ACT
Word
Co-op is a bimonthly poetry night at the ANU Food Co-op, this special March
edition is brought to you in conjunction with You Are Here.
For
the evening we have Dr P.S. Cottier, Ma Ya Ga Ng Re Ne, Good Ghost Bill and
Roshelle Fong.
Chai
and potentially even cup-cakes will be available for your delectation before
proceedings and during the break.
Entry
is by donation.
Here
are some brief notes about our performers:
Dr
P.S. Cottier
P.S.
Cottier has been writing for aeons, but in 2007 she decided that poetry was her
main mad discipline. She loves the ability to dwell in words; to play in the
vocabulary sandpit with sharpened spade, and a bucket that leaks puns beyond
the pale. She likes ideas in a poem as much as sound, which makes her a tad
old-fashioned, if not totes eighteenth century. She has three books of poetry
published, and wrote a PhD on Dickens. Recently she has discovered the
ambiguous pleasures of editing. You can call her Post Script (as she nearly
forgot to seek publication). You can call her Peripatetic Similes, if you like
big words. You can even call her Penelope Susan (as that is her name).
Ma
Ya Ga Ng Re Ne
Ma
Ya Ga Ng Re Ne, aka Thomas A. Day, is a multi-disciplinary artist, who is
currently exploring experiential installations, which seek to synthesise
elements of digital and analogue collage, manipulated visuals, sound, and live
performance. He has featured as a spoken word, performance and installation
artist at Australian festivals, arts spaces and events including the Queensland
Poetry, Woodford Folk, Tasmanian Poetry, Brisbane Emerging Arts, Brisbane
Fringe and Brisbane Festivals.
Good
Ghost Bill
Good Ghost Bill (aka Bill Moran) was a proud member of the 2011-2013 Austin Poetry
Slam national teams, as well as the 2012 & 2013 Austin Poetry Slam Champion
and 2013 Southern Fried Haiku Champion. He has has co-directed the Texas Grand
Slam two years running, featured at venues and taught workshops nationwide,
conducted long-term poetry programs at a local juvenile justice center, as well
as released three books and a CD. He is currently the president of Mic Check, a
non-profit poetry and spoken word organization based in Brazos County, Texas.
Roshelle
Fong
Roshelle
is a little bit silly from head to toe. She shares an entirely reasonable
height of 5'2'' with Reese Witherspoon, who she will one day meet and stand
back-to-back with, barefoot. It is probable that this whole-body fist-pump of
aligned proportions will shatter both girls' perceptions of perfection. She loves
making films and dancing for hours on end until her intestines are very grumpy
with her. Roshelle, not Reese. Roshelle can't speak for Reese. Yet. As a zygote
she really knew how to work a womb. But enough about the past.