Thank you everyone at Perth Poetry Club for 2021.
It certainly was a continuing year of poetry, COVID-19 and Zoom.
Thank you to our 1,900+ audience, 860 open-mikers, and 60 features during the year, who helped deliver over 2,200 poems
The 60 features do not include the following multiple features and ad hoc events we had:
Event Features
Recoil 12 Launch ( 11 No.) Thank you Coral Carter
This Saturday 11th December we have Kerry Mulholland and open-mike at Perth Poetry Club (End of Year gig), VIA ZOOM and at THE MOON CAFÉ.
Kerry Mulholland BIO
This Saturday 4th December we have WAPI’s & ANTaR WA’s Blak Ink Poetry Competition and open-mike at Perth Poetry Club, VIA ZOOM and at THE MOON CAFÉ.
The Blak Ink Poetry Competition is supported by ANTaR WA – its theme is Healing Country
The competition is open to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders living anywhere in Australia who have not yet published a collection of poetry.
This Saturday 27th November we have the wonderful poet SoulReserve and open-mike at Perth Poetry Club, VIA ZOOM and at THE MOON CAFÉ.
SoulReserve is an ardent writer and a wistful poet. Her poetry explores love and its tumultuousness, fantasy and zest in nature, and allegories that provoke thought and evoke tender feelings.
This Saturday 20th November we have the launch of Brushstrokes II, Ros Spencer Poetry Contest Anthology 2020-21 + open-mike at the Moon and on Zoom.
Launch speech by Allan Padgett, readings by Natalie D-Napoleon, Geoff Spencer (Jenny de Garis), Gary Colombo de Piazzi, SoulReserve, Coral Carter, Kevin Gillam, Damen O’Brien, and Laura Jan Shore, plus open-mike.
Brushstrokes II is an anthology of selected poems from entrants in the 2020 – 2021 Ros Spencer poetry contests.
This Saturday 13th November we have JR Grogan (NSW) + Matt Loeb (Canada, now Perth) + open-mike at the Moon and on Zoom.
John Robert Grogan (JR) is an Irish-Australian poet, who plays tradesperson by day and has been based in Sydney, Australia for sixteen years. Childhood in the Wicklow mountains in Ireland, time in the Mediterranean and his Australian wanderings, cultivated a curiosity and love for the natural world, and the connectivity of all things.
This Saturday 6th November we have Manveen Kohli + Sarah St Vincent Welch (ACT) + open-mike at the Moon and on Zoom.
Manveen Kohli BIO:
This Saturday 30th October we have Gayelene Carbis (Vic) + Claire Turton + open-mike at the Moon and on Zoom.
Gayelene Carbis is an Australian-Chinese-Cornish-Irish writer of poetry, prose and plays.
This Saturday 23rd October we have a Mega Open-mike event at the Moon and on Zoom.
Perth Poetry Club holds Mega Open-Mikes quarterly as an opportunity for every open-miker to be a feature with 5 minutes (maximum) of performance time.
Best to prepare your performance. Try something different, experimental. Edit and refresh your poems. Hone your performance skills.
Past events have been memorable for the quality of the poetry and performances.
This Saturday 16th October we have wonderful poet Daragh Byrne (NSW) + open-mike at the Moon Café and on Zoom.
Daragh Byrne is an Irish poet living and writing on Gadigal land (Sydney). He is widely published in journals and anthologies in Australia and Ireland, including Westerly, Crossways Literary Magazine, The Blue Nib, The Honest Ulsterman, Backstory and Live Encounters. He has won prizes or been commended in numerous competitions, recently being awarded Highly Commended in the Winchester Poetry Prize.