In 2024, we celebrated our 15th Year, our 764th Gig and 226th Zoom
We had 77 features, 777 open-mikers, and total audience of 1878.
This does not include the multiple / Ad Hoc features we had for:
Basho & 170 Frogs Feature Thank you to Elio Novello
Out of this World Thank you to Wendy Beach, Mar Bucknell, Ananda Barton
reading Klingon, Vogon & Azgoth, Paul Neil Milne Johnstone & William McGonagall
Rhythm of Vietnam Thank you to Lee Lam, Mai Vo, Emma Ma, Hong T Jackson
Perth Poetry Festival Gig (3No.) in August - Paul Kohn, Alicia Sometimes, Gabriel Everall
Overall we had 4 Book/Zine launches
Ying Yang (Su Yun Van)
Little Sister, Tiny Brother (Christine Della Vedova & Mar Bucknell)
black sheep poems (Mike Pedrana)
Brushstrokes 5 (WA Poets Inc & the Spencer Family)
A website launch
Launch by Wendy Beach of on-line Wild Whispers Poetry Magazine, for short poems five lines or less
3 x Mega Open-mike events in February, April, September
Many thanks to:
Allan Boyd (the antipoet) for website architecture and paying for our domain name
the Underlords, especially
· Neil J BRiLO Pattinson for organising, moral guidance, logistics, talent scouting and counsel
· Coral Carter, our paparazza and counsel for organising, talent scouting
· Leonard James for talent scouting, logistics, feature bookings/look-out, and looking after PPC Community page
· Elio Novello for general organisation
Special thanks to Ben Hoare on the sound desk and Zoom interface, and
the Moon Café for use of the backroom and providing us with this space.
A full year of changed ownership and the last quarter has seen weekly changes to the backroom.
A special thank you to Clancy Travers for use of the Zoom Q8 camera
Thank you to Mar Bucknell, Jonathan Mustard & Danny Gunzburg for doing occasional sound as well.
Highlights were:
International and interstate audience and supporters, thank you very very much
WA folk who supported us either thru Zoom or at the Moon - our audience and open-mikers, thank you very very much
Features from Sweden, USA, Eire, NZ (Aotearoa), Malaysia, Singapore, UK
Interstaters - SA, Victoria
Poetry and Interview with Tim Kinsella - thank you to Writing WA, WA Poets, Scott-Patrick Mitchell
Apologies to those folk and places we have missed.
Again thank you to everyone.