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Perth Poetry Club has wonderful poet and writer Louise Helfgott plus open-mike
this Saturday 27th April, 2pm-4pm, at The Moon Café and on Zoom.
Louise Helfgott is an award-winning writer with a PhD in Creative Writing from Edith Cowan University. She has had an extensive body of work published and plays produced. Her book, Thistledown Seed, which was published by Brandl and Schlesinger in 2022, was shortlisted in the WA Premier’s Book Awards for Book of the Year, 2023, and shortlisted in the Dorothy Hewett Awards for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2018.
Recent achievements include Light in her Eye which won the Todhunter Literary Award in 2014 and performed at the Perth Fringe Festival in 2018. Her play Potchnagoola, based on the mentoring relationship between the West Australian writer, Katharine Susannah Prichard and her concert pianist brother, David Helfgott, was commissioned and performed for the fiftieth anniversary commemoration of Prichard’s death in 2019. Frames, written as part of her PhD in Creative Writing, was short-listed in the national Playwriting Australia competition and produced by Class Act Theatre for a three-week season at the Subiaco Arts Centre in 2014. She won the Magdalena Prize for Feminist Research. Other credits include The Bridge (Mandurah Little Theatre, 2006) which was a finalist in New Musicals Australia in 2011 and A Closer Sky (Mandurah Little Theatre, 2004) which was nominated for an AWGIE award in 2005.
Her poetry anthology Can You Hold the Sun? was published by FreeXpresSion (2004). Louise is a member of FAWWA and is on the Australian Writers Guild Committee for WA. She also works part-time as a counsellor and as a music teacher and has been the co-coordinator of the Koolbardies Talking group which is a meeting place for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women.
Join us to celebrate poetry at The Moon from the back room, and on Zoom.
Saturday, 27th April 2024, 2pm to 4pm Perth Aus WST (GMT+8hrs).
Louise Helfgott + open-mike,
at The Moon Café, 323 William Street, Northbridge, and on Zoom
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84254037443
A great space to be on a Saturday afternoon at The Moon and on Zoom.
In weeks to come, we have:
27-Apr-24
Louise Helfgott + open-mike
4-May-24
Out of this World Poetry + open-mike
Klingon, Vogon & Azgoth poetry, Paul Neil Milne Johnstone & William McGonagall, read by Wendy Beach, Mar Bucknell, Elio Novello & Ananda Barton.
Wendy and Mar will read in Klingon and Vogon respectively.
We will also read a Hominid horoscope, from Almost Down To Earth by Kennedy Trengrove.
Open-mike as usual, and open-mikers are encouraged to join in the fun.
A gig not to be missed. May the Fourth be with You!! We may add Tolkien in as well…
11-May-24
Kathleen Dzubiel + Dick Alderson + open-mike
18-May-24
Van Su Yun (Singapore) reading from her Yin Yang + open-mike
25-May-24
Helen Hagemann & her new book “Bounty: Prose Poetry” + open-mike
… All with open-mike, not to be missed …