This Saturday 4th September 2pm-4pm we have wonderful poet Glen Phillips + SLINGS & ARROWS (Books 4 & 5) – Poetry for Performance + open-mike at the Moon Café and on Zoom.
Launching Book 4, Totally Cleaned Out, is Christine Della Vedova with Colin Young (Ed) - poems as well
Launching Book 5, OOPS!, is Daphne Milne with Allan Padgett (Ed) - poems as well
This Saturday 28th August 2pm-4pm we have two wonderful poets Julian Matthews (Malaysia) and Chris Palazzolo + open-mike at the Moon Café and on Zoom.
Julian Matthews is a former journalist from Malaysia who stumbled onto poetry by accident four years ago. That happy accident has turned into a rabid compulsion. He is still extricating himself from the crash. His poems are commentaries on the human condition that are mostly sad and depressing. You either need tissues or therapy. Welcome to his recovery.
This Saturday 21st August 2pm-4pm we have two wonderful poets Sunny Wignall and C.J. O’Harte + open-mike at the Moon Café and on Zoom.
This Saturday 14th August 2pm-4pm we have two wonderful poets Peter Ramm (NSW) and Yuyutsu Sharma (Nepal) + open-mike at the Moon Café and on Zoom.
This Saturday 7th August 2pm-4pm we have wonderful poet Mwelwa on CoS + open-mike at the Moon Café and on Zoom.
Mwelwa Chilombo also referred to as Mwelwa on CoS is a young creative thinker, story teller, performance poet, a song lyricist all wrapped up in a lawyer.
Born and bred in Kitwe city, Zambia, he is a lively and unique soul who believes that art is a celebration of the things that make us human. Our ability to create is the basis of all God’s gifts that enables us to form what we call Art.
This Saturday 31st July 2pm-4pm we have wonderful poet Allan Padgett + open-mike at the Moon Café and on Zoom.
This Saturday 24th July 2pm-4pm we have wonderful poet Deanne Leber + launch of her Constellations + open-mike at the Moon Café and on Zoom.
Launch speech by Dr Andrew Burke, also featuring retired Assoc Prof. Susan Ash (from ECU).
Deanne Leber is a writer, with poetry being her first love. She has worked on a collection of poems as part of her PhD project at Edith Cowan University.
This Saturday 17th July 2pm-4pm we have wonderful poet and songster Danny Gunzburg + open-mike at the Moon Café and on Zoom.
We are back at the Moon Café – no restrictions re Covid.
Danny Gunzburg (music, poems and song) …
This Saturday 10th July 2pm-4pm we have wonderful poets Andrew Burke + Andre de Bassendean + Andrew Shillam (NSW) + open-mike at the Moon Café and on Zoom.
We are back at the Moon Café - folk will have to QR code in or sign in, and people will have to wear a mask unless eating or drinking. You can QR table order or order at bar as normal. There is a limit of 2 per square metre which means no more than 50 in the back room, and we have operated like that for a good 6 months so no need to worry really.
This Saturday 3rd July 2pm-4pm we have wonderful poets Nathan Toy + Maurice Corlett (NSW) + open-mike on Zoom.
We will NOT be at the Moon Cafe.
Nathan Toy grew up in Brisbane City, moving to Western Australia when he was a teenager.
Nathan’s poetry comes from a place of pain, human pain, pain that we have either experienced already or will experience soon. Nathan hopes his poetry whispers softly to the still-sleeping darkness within you, and soothes it with a reminder: you are not alone.