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
Young Poets Festival Gig ( 4 No.) in September Thanks to Veronica Lake and WA Poets Inc
Perth Poetry Festival Gig ( 6 No.) in September (Thanks to WA Poets Inc)
Grand Final Special Thank you to Elio Novello
Brushstrokes 2 Launch ( 8 No.) in November Thanks to WA Poets Inc, the Spencer family & Allan Padgett
Blak Ink Poetry Competition ( 6 No.) in December (Thanks to WA Poets Inc)
Overall we had 5 book Launches,
Recoil-12 already mentioned + Precis (Mardi May) Constellations (Deanne Leber) Slings & Arrows 4 & 5 (Glen Phillips)
Our 4 Mega Open-mike events in January, April, May & October, where everyone is a feature.
Thanks to Elio Novello, Christine Della Vedova, Leonard James and Coral Carter for MC-ing throughout the year
Many thanks to:
Allan Boyd (the antipoet) for website architecture and paying for our domain name
the Underlords, especially ·
Neil J BRiLO Pattinson for moral guidance, and counsel ·
Coral Carter, our paparazza, Recoil editor, and counsel ·
Leonard James for counsel, talent scouting, feature bookings ·
Elio Novello for general organisation
Special special thanks to Ben Hoare on the sound desk and helping us with Moon Zoom, and to the Moon Café for use of the backroom and providing us with this space.
An extra special thank you to Clancy Travers for use of his Zoom Q8 camera.
Highlights for the year were: COVID-19 - how people continued to cope with it, suffered with it
Our international and interstate audience and supporters, thank you very very much
WA folk who supported us at the Moon and thru Zoom, thank you very very much as well
Features from WA, Vic, Tas, NSW, ACT, Finland, Nepal, UK, Singapore, Zambia, France
Apologies to those and places we have missed
We are taking a 5-week break.
We will be back in 2022 at the Moon Café, 323 William St, Northbridge and on ZOOM. A great place to be on a Saturday afternoon 2pm-4pm WST.
2022 start back with:
Sunday 9-Jan-22 Covid permitting
Sunday Lunch 12noon – no poetry, at Red Chilli Sichuan Restaurant, 191 James St, Northbridge
RSVP perthpoetryclub@gmail.com or Elio on 0417 345 863, so we can confirm numbers with restaurant
Saturday
15-Jan-22 First gig back Peter Jeffery + Sonya Frossine + open-mike
22-Jan-22 Ben Mason+ open-mike
29-Jan-22 Mega Open-mike event, where everyone is a feature (5 minutes max. for each open-miker) …
All with open-mike, not to be missed …