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Perth Poetry Club this Saturday 3rd October 2026, 2pm-4pm, has wonderful poets
Phoebe Brown Roberts & Adnan Al-Sayegh (Iraq-UK) + open-mike
at The Moon Café, 323 William Street Northbridge & on ZOOM.
I was a Phoebe by Emily Dickinson
I was a Phoebe – nothing more –
A Phoebe – nothing less –
The little note that others dropt
I fitted into place –
I dwelt too low that any seek –
Too shy, that any blame –
A Phoebe makes a little print
Upon the Floors of Fame –
Phoebe Brown Roberts has been many women and never the same woman twice. Her poetics dance between fallible memory and embodied agency, asking: who do we become when we remember who we are? Raised in California on stolen Ohlone land, Phoebe lives on unceded Wadandi Boodja and hosts 'The Bridge' on Radio Margaret River, a show platforming musicians, poets, and storytellers.
Adnan Al-Sayegh was born in al-Kufa, a city on the banks of the Euphrates in Iraq in 1955 and is one of the most original voices of his generation of poets. His poetry, crafted with elegance, and sharp as an arrowhead, carries an intense passion for freedom, love and beauty; also denounces the devastation of wars and the horrors of dictatorship.
Adnan has published fourteen collections of poetry, including the 550-page Uruk's Anthem (Beirut 1996), the 1380-page The Dice Of The Text (Beirut & Baghdad 2022) and short poems Glimmerings… Of You/strong> (London, Baghdad 2024), Cadences… Of You (London, Baghdad 2026).
He left his homeland in 1993, lived in Amman, and Beirut then in 1996 took refuge in Sweden.. Since 2004 he has been living in exile in London. His poems have been researched by PhD [12] and Masters [45] students in multiple Iraqi, Arabic and international universities.
He has received several international awards; among them, The Hellman-Hammet International Poetry Award (New York 1996), The Rotterdam International Poetry Award (1997) and The Swedish Writers Association Award (2005), and has been invited to read his poems in many festivals across the world. More than 20 books of translations of his poetry have been published in different languages, including Swedish, English, Dutch, Spanish, French, Russian, Farsi and others.
Adnan believes in combining poetry with creative arts such as painting, theatre, cinema, music and others.
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Join us to celebrate poetry
Phoebe Brown Roberts & Adnan Al-Sayegh (Iraq-UK) + open-mike
2pm-4pm this Saturday 3rd October 2026
at The Moon Café, 323 William Street, Northbridge & on ZOOM
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84254037443
The backroom of The Moon is properly air-conditioned, and it is a great space to be wherever you are on a Saturday afternoon 2pm-4pm WST, because in weeks to come, we have:
3-Oct-26
Phoebe Brown Roberts & Adnan Al-Sayegh (Iraq-UK) + open-mike
10-Oct-26
Sia Kozlowski + TBA + open-mike
17-Oct-26
Still Water anthology launch, editor Ross Jackson + open-mike
24-Oct-26
Don Smith + open-mike (No Zoom on 24th Oct)
… All with open mike, not to be missed …