Spoken Word

Sandy Jeffs' memoir, Flying With Paper Wings, Reflections on Living With Madness, has been recently reissued in a revised edition. Sandy talks about her experience of schizophrenia and the healing power of poetry. Part 2 of 2.

Sandy Jeffs' memoir, Flying With Paper Wings, Reflections on Living With Madness, has been recently reissued in a revised edition. Sandy talks about her experience of schizophrenia and the healing power of poetry. Part 1 of 2.

Jarad Bruinstroop's debut poetry collection, Reliefs (UQP, 2023) won the Wesley MichelWright Prize, the Five Islands Poetry Prize, the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, and wasshortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award.He is the recipient of the Val Vallis Award, the Queensland Writers Fellowship, and the Fryer Library Creative Writing Fellowship.His work has appeared in The Best of Australian Poems, Meanjin, Overland, HEAT, Island,Westerly and elsewhere including at the Queensland Art Gallery, QUT Art Museum, andGeorge Paton Gallery.He holds a PhD in Creative Writing from QUT where he now teaches.He is currently at work on a short story collection. Photo: Torrey AtkinProduction & Interview: Tina Giannoukos

‘to write of skin is to discredit the self'- from Home's Duplex by Lesh Karan In this episode of 3CR's Spoken Word show which aired on Thursday 17 April 2025, you will hear poet Lesh Karan talk about studying poetry, assemblage, movement and lineages.Lesh Karan is an emerging poet of Indo-Fijian descent based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her work has been published in Meanjin, Overland, Griffith Review, Cordite, Island, Rabbit, Strange Horizons (USA), and Best of Australian Poems (2022, 2023). She won the 2023 Liquid Amber Poetry Prize, was shortlisted for the Judith Wright and South Coast Writers Centre poetry prizes, and received an honourable mention in the 2024 Red Room Emerging Poets in Residence program. Lesh holds a Master of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing from the University of Melbourne.Poems written and performed by Lesh Karan in this episode:Twenty-one+ answers to your questionHome's DuplexRed Writing Hood NoteSpoken word and poetry come from the heart and touch on all the topics peculiar to the human condition. As such there may be content in this show that could cause distress. Please practice self-care when listening and seek help if you need it. CreditsRecorded, produced and edited by Indrani Perera.Thank you to Lesh Karan for sharing her poetry and to you for listening! 

Marion May Campbell's novels include Lines of Flight (1985), Not Being Miriam (1989), Prowler (1999), Shadow Thief (2006), and konkretion (2013).She has also published the cross-genre collection Fragments from a Paper Witch (Salt, 2008), an experimental memoir The Man on the Mantelpiece (UWA Publishing, 2018), the poetry collections third body (Whitmore Press 2018) and languish (Upswell 2022).Her novels Lines of Flight (1985) and Not Being Miriam (1989) were shortlisted andcommended for major Australian awards and twice for the Canada-Australia Literary Prize;Not being Miriam won WA Week Literary Awards for Prose Fiction (1989), the libretto DrMemory in the Dream Home shared the Patricia Hackett Prize (1992) and Fragments from aPaper Witch was a finalist for the Innovation Category of the South Australian Festival Literary Awards (2010).She has been recipient of nine writer's and residency grants and won the Senses of Cinema Prize for the best essay in 2021 and the joanne burns micro-fiction prize for 2022. Production & Interview: Tina Giannoukos

‘sink beneath the surface into myriad voices speaking in stone'- from On Danggu by Nandi Chinna In this episode of 3CR's Spoken Word show which aired on Thursday 20 March 2025, you will hear poet Nandi Chinna talk about the eco-poetics of wild rivers, listening and reciprocal relationships. Nandi Chinna works as a research consultant, educator, and poet. She is based on unceded Aboriginal land in Boorloo (Perth) and Bunuba lands in Fitzroy Crossing, WA. Her poetry has its genesis in a strong determination to craft creative works and poetry as a response to the ecologies and layers of history attached to particular places.Nandi is the author of four poetry collections.  The Future Keepers (Fremantle Press) was shortlisted for the Prime Ministers Literary Award in 2020 and was highly commended in the Victorian Premiers Prize 2019. Nandi was awarded the 2021 Western Australian Premiers Writing Fellowship. Her most recent collection, a collaboration with Niykina Elder Professor Anne Poelina, Tossed up by the beak of a Cormorant, poems of the Martuwarra River, was published by Fremantle Press in 2024. Poems written and performed by Nandi Chinna in this episode:On DangguReciprocal GiftsAt Yirramalay Spring NoteSpoken word and poetry come from the heart and touch on all the topics peculiar to the human condition. As such there may be content in this show that could cause distress. Please practice self-care when listening and seek help if you need it. CreditsRecorded and produced by Indrani Perera.Thank you to Nandi Chinna for sharing her poetry and to you for listening! 

Sandy Jeffs on Out of the Madhouse is an encore broadcast. Sandy talks about the book she co-wrote with Margaret Legatt, Out of the Madhouse, From Asylum to Caring Community. The book contains both history and poetry and is written from an insider perspective. Interviewed by Di Cousens.

Gad Ben-Meir was born in Baghdad in 1931. He has published two collections of poetry in classical Arabic, Nightingales of Intimacy (2004) and Dialogue of the Hearts (2008), and one collection in the Egyptian dialect, Ya Manal Ya Manali (2004). After more than fifty years of living in England and Australia, his first collection of poetry in English, Siren of the Heart (2020), celebrates his appreciation and insight into love and friendship and their repercussions.Siren of the Heart (Westphalia Press, 2020) is available here: https://www.amazon.com.au/Siren-Heart-Gad-Ben-Meir-ebook/dp/B0856WWRML/r...(link is external) Production & Interview : Dr Tina Giannoukos

‘If my childhood were a thread it would connect all the vibrant colours into a phulkari and remind me to be proud of my parivaar, my family.'- from Pardes by Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa In this episode of 3CR's Spoken Word show which aired on Thursday 20 March 2025, you will hear multiform artist Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa talk about racism, representation in the arts and her debut novel. Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa OAM is a writer, performer, producer and cultural leader based in Boorloo. Her work as a multi-form artist for the last decade has been recognised at the Performing Arts WA Awards, Mona Brand Writing Awards, WA Multicultural Awards and Australian Sikh Awards. Her passion for storytelling began as a finalist in the Australian Poetry Slam in 2014, semi-finalist on Australia's Got Talent in 2016 and winner of The Moth GrandSLAM in 2019.Sukhjit has supported Missy Higgins and L-FRESH the Lion on their national tours in 2016 and 201717 and and her debut hip-hop single ‘Collectables' is now streaming on global music platforms. Sukhjit was selected to participate in a Broadway producing program with Theatre Producers of Colour in New York (2023). She is currently producing ‘A Hairy Tale', a documentary exploring female body hair.Her debut novel Fully Sikh: hot chips and turmeric stains (Upswell Publishing) is available now. Poems written and performed by Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa in this episode:To Advance Australia FairPardesCollectibles (song) NoteSpoken word and poetry come from the heart and touch on all the topics peculiar to the human condition. As such there may be content in this show that could cause distress. Please practice self-care when listening and seek help if you need it. CreditsRecorded and produced by Indrani Perera.Thank you to Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa for sharing her poetry and to you for listening!

Eileen Chong has just released a new book of poetry, 'We Speak of Flowers', published by the University of Queensland Press. Interviewed by Di Cousens. Photo by Travis De Vries.

Gad Ben-Meir was born in Baghdad in 1931. He has published two collections of poetry in classical Arabic, Nightingales of Intimacy (2004) and Dialogue of the Hearts (2008), and one collection in the Egyptian dialect, Ya Manal Ya Manali (2004). After more than fifty years of living in England and Australia, his first collection of poetry in English, Siren of the Heart (2020), celebrates his appreciation and insight into love and friendship and their repercussions.Siren of the Heart (Westphalia Press, 2020) is available here: https://www.amazon.com.au/Siren-Heart-Gad-Ben-Meir-ebook/dp/B0856WWRML/ref=sr_1_1?crid=G82NLKOKFED4&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.XTit7GyiBonakd9IP-0qzg.hncETW4Zp-Auhk_gmcOWLIYrRmgtNRoSMDQpf_dJEt8&dib_tag=se&keywords=gad+ben-meir&qid=1740543655&s=books&sprefix=%2Cstripbooks%2C2212&sr=1-1 Production & Interview : Dr Tina Giannoukos   

‘Peace is the true flavour.'- from Shaah for Healing by Mohamed Sudi In this episode of 3CR's Spoken Word show which aired on Thursday 20 February 2025, you will hear poet Mohamed Sudi talk about shaah (tea), healing and hope as well as some of the secret projects he has been working on. Mohamed Sudi is a Somali refugee, poet, and calligrapher. He is a member of the Calligraphy Society Victoria, and a 2024 Australian Poetry Slam State Finalist. His multilingual storytelling brings words to life both vocally and visually, blending spoken word poetry with Arabic calligraphy. Through vivid and immersive storytelling, Mohamed takes audiences on a deeply personal journey—from the joyful games of his Mogadishu childhood and his love for Arabic calligraphy to the harsh realities of war under Siad Barre's military regime, which uprooted his family from Somalia. Set against a backdrop of displacement and renewal, Mohamed's deeply moving storytelling bridges memories and dreams, offering audiences a profound exploration of survival, identity, and the unbreakable human spirit. Poems written and performed by Mohamed Sudi in this episode:Somalia AustraliaShaah for Healing (mono stitch)Hooyo (Mother) NoteSpoken word and poetry come from the heart and touch on all the topics peculiar to the human condition. As such there may be content in this show that could cause distress. Please practice self-care when listening and seek help if you need it. CreditsRecorded and produced by Indrani Perera.Thank you to Mohamed Sudi for sharing his poetry and to you for listening! 

Michael Reynolds ran the spoken word gig, Passionate Tongues for 25 years. He reflects back on the history of the gig, poetry in Brunswick and the many poets who were a part of the scene. Interviewed by Di Cousens. Part 2 of two parts.

Michael Reynolds ran the spoken word gig, Passionate Tongues for 25 years. He reflects back on the history of the gig, poetry in Brunswick and the many poets who were a part of the scene. Interviewed by Di Cousens. Part 1 of two parts.

Michael Reynolds has run the Passionate Tongues spoken word poetry gig for 25 years. Now, as he winds up the gig, he reflects on the highlights of this very long run. Interviewed by Di Cousens. Part 1.

Alicia Sometimes is a poet and broadcaster passionate about art and science. She has performed her poetry at many venues, festivals and events around the world. Her poems have been in Best Australian Science Writing, Best Australian Poems, Meanjin, Westerly and many more. Alicia is director/co-writer of the art/science planetarium shows, Elemental and Particle/Wave. In 2023 she received ANAT's Synapse Artist Residency and co-created an art installation for Science Gallery Melbourne's exhibition, Dark Matters. Her new poetry book, Stellar Atmospheres, is out via Cordite Books. She is passionate about art-science projects.www.aliciasometimes.com(link is external) Production and Interview: Tina Giannoukos

‘Let me burrow through the earth and come back with a diamond'- from a prayer to the teachings by AJ D'Costa In this episode of 3CR's Spoken Word show which aired on Thursday 19th December 2024, you will hear poet AJ D'Costa talk about separateness, belonging, the sacred ordinary and the diaspora. AJ D'Costa is a poet, artist & mental health practitioner of Goan-Indian heritage. She works at the intersection of creativity and contemplative practice, performing spoken word, leading community poetry bushwalks and running a private counselling practice. AJ has been part of the Brown Women Poetry showcase in Melbourne, Sonic Poetry Festival and Red Room Poetry's Poetry Month 2024 calendar. Her work has been published by the Australian Poetry Journal, Tree Paper Gallery, We Are Explorers & New Internationalist, and she talks about creative process on the Spotify podcast Beneath The Words. She currently works from the unceeded lands of the Kulin nation. Find her @ajdcosta.creative. Poems written and performed by AJ D'Costa in this episode:subterranean riversthese are the storms that we knowa prayer to the teachingserasure NoteSpoken word and poetry come from the heart and touch on all the topics peculiar to the human condition. As such there may be content in this show that could cause distress. Please practice self-care when listening and seek help if you need it. CreditsRecorded and produced by Indrani Perera.Thank you to AJ D'Costa for sharing her poetry and to you for listening! 

Poet Robyn Rowland talks to Di Cousens about her new book, Steep Curve.

Stuart Barnes is the author of Like to the Lark (Upswell Publishing, 2023), awarded the 2023 Wesley Michel Wright Prize in Poetry, shortlisted for the 2024 ALS Gold Medal and highly commended in the 2024 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, and of Glasshouses (UQP, 2016), awarded the 2015 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, commended in the 2016 Anne Elder Award and shortlisted for the 2017 Mary Gilmore Award. Stuart, Nigel Featherstone, Melinda Smith and CJ Bowerbird are Hell Herons, a spokenword+music collective whose debut album, The Wreck Event, is out now at Bandcamp and on all major streaming platforms. www.stuartabarnes.com www.hellherons.com  Like to the Lark is available here: https://upswellpublishing.com/product/like-to-the-larkGlasshouses is available here: https://www.uqp.com.au/books/glasshouses    Production and Interview: Tina Giannoukos

‘My inner child is playing with matches and I've brought marshmallows'- from An Ode to my Little Firebrand by Anke In this episode of 3CR's Spoken Word show aired on Thursday 21 November 2024, you will hear Anke talk about righteous anger, injustice and the need for a new kind of superhero. If you are unsure how to pronounce Anke's name, it rhymes with the German word for thank you – ‘Danke'. Born in Germany and raised in Adelaide Australia, anke illustrates stories, poems, and events using sand and an ‘old-school' overhead projector. She also writes poetry and song lyrics for her garage folk band Awkward Strangers. She has worked throughout Australia as a performer, facilitator and artist, including with the award-winning multi-arts company Crossroad Arts, in Mackay, Queensland. Her sand work has illustrated spoken word poetry events in Melbourne, a 24-hour Speak Out event in Federation Square, and she runs Perc.U.lations, a monthly poetry event in Dandenong. This year two of her pieces featured in the Emerging Writers Festival 2024 Wall of Echo. Poems written and performed by Anke in this episode:Captain KindnessAn Ode to my Little FirebrandLines and Bridles NoteSpoken word and poetry come from the heart and touch on all the topics peculiar to the human condition. As such there may be content in this show that could cause distress. Please practice self-care when listening and seek help if you need it. CreditsRecorded and produced by Indrani Perera.Picture: Brendan Bonsack.Thank you to Anke for sharing her poetry and to you for listening! 

Madeleine Dale talks to Di Cousens about her new book of poetry, Portraits of Drowning, published by the University of Queensland Press.

Kent MacCarter is a poet and editor. His publishing career began at University of Chicago Press in 2000; since then, he has worked with educational publishers. He is  the managing editor of Cordite Poetry Review and publisher of Cordite Books. His writing has been published widely and includes four poetry collections: In the Hungry Middle of Here (Transit Lounge, 2009), Sputnik's Cousin (Transit Lounge, 2014), California Sweet (Five Islands Press, 2018) and Fat Chance: Journalism Poems (Upswell, 2024).Sputnik's Cousin can be purchased here: https://transitlounge.com.au/shop/sputniks-cousin/Fat Chance: Journalism Poems can be purchased here: https://upswellpublishing.com/product/fat-chance Picture: Tim GreyProduction and Interview: Tina Giannoukos

In this episode from 3CR's Spoken Word show, you will hear an interview by Indrani Perera with poet Vasilka Pateras recorded on Thursday 10th October 2024.Vasilka Pateras lives in Naarm/Melbourne, and is an Australian-Macedonian writer whose poetry, reviews and articles have been published both nationally and internationally including Cordite, Mascara Literary Review, and Hecate. She has co-authored Thread - a chapbook of poems (self-published 2021).~Poems written and performed by Vasilka Pateras in this episode:PrazninaOn the shoulders of grandmothersGoot Tranink~Spoken word and poetry come from the heart and touch on all the topics peculiar to the human condition. As such there may be content in this show that could cause distress. Please practice self-care when listening and seek help if you need it.~Recorded and prodcued by Indrani Perera.Thank you to Vasilka Pateras for sharing her poetry and to you for listening! 

This is the second interview with Jeanine Leane about her book of poetry, Gawimarra Gathering.

Sandy Jeffs was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1976 when it was considered something from which you could not recover. In the 1980s, she was among the first wave of people who started speaking publicly about living with a mental illness. Much of her writing has been about her struggle with schizophrenia. Sandy has published eight volumes of poetry. Sandy co-authored with Margaret Leggatt, Out of the Madhouse: From Asylums to Caring Community?, published in 2020. In 2021, her musings on the pandemic were published in The Poetics of a Plague: A Haiku Diary. Sandy's memoir Flying with Paper Wings: Reflections on Living with Madness was republished in March 2024 by Spinifex Press. Her memoir, Flying With Paper Wings: Reflections on Living with Madness, is available here: https://www.spinifexpress.com.au/shop/p/9781925950946  Production and Interview: Tina Giannoukos 

This is a podcast episode of the 3CR Spoken Word show with host Indrani Perera. In this episode you will hear an interview with poet and spoken word artist, Jude Chrisan recorded on Sunday 15 September 2024.Jude Chrisan is a boy learning how to be alive. He's a passionate connecter, poet, and professional cry baby. Most importantly of all, Jude is a searcher for the beauty in the pain, in the mundane; he's searching for the green in the grey. He's also a huge fan of hugs!Poems written and performed by Jude Chrisan in this episode:The TradesmanReflectionsJust Being NiceSequoiaThank you to Jude for sharing his poetry and to you for listening!

This episode of 3CR Spoken Word is an interview with Laura Fisher and Eddy Burger. They talk about absurdist poetry, collaboration, and Laura's play "Why Not Believe In Everything".Laura Fisher is an energetic poet, and performer who is well known on the Melbourne Spoken word scene for convening Radio Laria Poetry and MCing Girls on Key.  Through both these poetry nights, Laura has been a keen advocate and promoter for women poets.  She has been the feature poet for various Melbourne spoken word gigs and at Dramatis Personae she was even known to channel the ghost of Emily Bronte. Eddy Burger is a writer of funny and experimental poetry, fiction, and plays. His work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies as well chapbooks by the MPU and Small Change Press and in his own self-published zines. Eddy is an anti-realist, literary radical and champion of the imagination, often concerned with challenging norms and promoting difference.

This is the first interview with Jeanine Leane about her book of poetry, Gawimarra Gathering.

A live recording of selected performances from Rochford Street Review's launch of their print magazine P76 Issue.9 (Sonic Edition). Performed at the Bergy Bandroom in Brunswick as part of the Sonic Poetry Festival 2024.Includes readings by:Jeanine Leane (After the Silence the Echo)Alex Skovron (Trigger Logic)Nadia Niaz (Motia, Djinn Hunter)Alison J. Barton (One Hand, Buried Light)Peter Bakowski (On Suvarov Atoll)Amanda Anastasi (The Missing)Ali Alizadeh (Murrumbeena)To learn more about the issue and purchase a copy:https://rochford-pressbookshop.square.site/product/p76-no-9-poetries-of-place-displacement-diaspora-odyssey

Alicia Sometimes is a poet and broadcaster passionate about art and science. She has performed her poetry at many venues, festivals and events around the world. Her poems have been in Best Australian Science Writing, Best Australian Poems, Meanjin, Westerly and many more. Alicia is director/co-writer of the art/science planetarium shows, Elemental and Particle/Wave. In 2023 she received ANAT's Synapse Artist Residency and co-created an art installation for Science Gallery Melbourne's exhibition, Dark Matters. Her new poetry book, Stellar Atmospheres, is out via Cordite Books. She is passionate about art-science projects.www.aliciasometimes.com Production and Interview: Tina Giannoukos

Waffle Irongirl interviews Nadia Rhook.  Nadia is a non-Indigenous historian, poet, and educator, and the author of two history-themed poetry collections: boots (UWA Publishing) and Second Fleet Baby (Fremantle Press).

This is a podcast episode of the 3CR Spoken Word show with host Indrani Perera, recorded on 21 July 2024.In this episode Alison J Barton, talks about her forthcoming debut poetry collection, Not Telling, colonisation, German missionaries and psychoanalytic theory. This recording has a trigger warning for colonisation, death and grief.Alison J Barton is a Wiradjuri poet whose work appears in Australian and international journals and anthologies such as Meanjin, Cordite, Westerly, Mascara Literary Review, Australian Poetry Journal, Blackbox Manifold and many more. In 2023, she was the inaugural winner of the University of Cambridge First Nations Writer-in-Residence Fellowships. She has been the recipient of several fellowships with Varuna House and the winner of a number of international writing residencies. Alison's poetry appeared in the Best of Australian Poems 2022 and 2023, and has been recognised in numerous prizes. She appeared in podcasts for The Guilty Feminist and Poetry Says. Her first full-length collection of poetry, Not Telling, will be out with Puncher & Wattmann next month. Poems written and performed by Alison J Barton in this episode:Buried LightBirth DressDreams for the MillSeasonsTinctureFeather DressThank you to Alison J Barton for sharing her poetry and to you for listening! 

Judith Bishop talks to Di Cousens about her new book, Circadia. Published by the University of Queensland Press.

Tom Petsinis is a novelist, playwright, and poet. He was born in Macedonia, Greece, and immigrated to Australia as a child. He lives in Melbourne and works as a mathematics co-ordinator at Deakin University. He has published several collections of poetry, including Sonnets: Offerings from Mount Athos, My Father's Tools, Steles, Isolation, and Four Quarters, which won the Wesley Michel Wright Poetry Prize. His play The Drought was short-listed for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and won the Wal Cherry Award. His novels include The Twelfth Dialogue and The French Mathematician, nominated for both the New South Wales and South Australian Premier's Award. His recent novels are Fitzroy Raw and Fog. The Australia Council for the Arts has awarded him a Writers' Fellowship and a Residency at the B.R. Whiting Library in Rome. He also been a Creative Fellow at the State Library of Victoria and a writer-in-residence in Lavigny, Switzerland. Tom's work has been translated into several languages. His latest collection of poetry is Zero's Whisper and his latest play is Zorba's Last Dance.Dimitrios Koutsoukos is an actor with a diverse range of credits. Television and film credits include Kick, Neighbours, Noah's Ark, and Crackerjack. He has appeared in numerous short films, including Bulk Bill (VCA), Apply Yourself  (Art of the State) and Short Change (48 Hour Film Fest Award Winner). Beyond film and television, Dimitrios has performed in theatre productions such as The Greeks (La Mama Collaborations) and Heart Thy Neighbour (Melbourne International Comedy Festival). His training includes The Film Space, St. Kilda Acting Company, and Tony Nikolakopoulos' Kali Techni Theatre Company. He has served as the Co-Artistic Director of the Greek Australian Short Film Festival (GASFF).  Here, he reads extracts from Tom Petsinis's new play, Zorba's Last Dance, and also joins Tom Petsinis in reading poems from Zero's Whisper.Tom Petsinis's work is available here: https://scholarly.info/?s=Tom+Petsinis&post_type=productProduction and Interview: Tina Giannoukos  

This is a podcast episode of the 3CR Spoken Word show with host Indrani Perera. In this episode you will hear an interview with poet and spoken word artist, Aloma Davis, recorded on 23rd June 2024.Aloma Davis's poetry is concerned with social justice, beauty and kindness.  Despite her best efforts, birds frequently fly into her poems.  In 2022, she was a national finalist in the Australian Poetry Slam; in 2023, one of her poems was selected to be part of the International Human Rights Art Festival in New York; and in 2024, she received a Red Room Poetry Fellowship.  She divides her time between living in Melbourne, Australia, and living in her head, where she has a library with one of those sliding ladders, Haast's eagle as a pet, and work-life balance.*This recording has a trigger warning around death and grief. Please practice self care and if you need to speak to someone, call Lifeline on 13 11 14.Poems written and performed by Aloma Davis in this episode:TideLittle KiteWorth ItLast Flight*Thank you to Aloma Davis for sharing her poetry and to you for listening! 

Australian poet, Kevin Brophy, talks to Di Cousens about writing poetry in Melbourne and overseas and his upcoming book, An Inventory of Longing, to be published by Whitmore Press.

Jennifer Mackenzie is a poet and critic. She has published two books which focus on Indonesia, Borobudur and Navigable Ink (both with Transit Lounge), and is working on a third. She is a member of the management committee of Australian Pacific Writers and Translators (APWT), and is co-editor of the Australian edition of the international, Nepalese-based, Pratik, a magazine of contemporary writing. Jennifer's appearance at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, where the Australian edition of Pratik was launched, was courtesy of Creative Australia and APWT.Here she talks about curating along with her fellow editors Australian poetry for Pratik in conjunction with APWT. The Australian edition of the magazine, Fire and Rain, was launched in Ubud in 2023 and in Melbourne in 2024. The edition includes a collaboration with Red Room Poetry to highlight the work of First Nations authors.The Australian edition of Pratik is available here: https://www.amazon.com/Pratik-Fire-Special-Australian-Issue/dp/B0CK8MSDBN/ref=sr_1_106?crid=S1ZPIKBXO46L&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ITPjoAiRveNdwx52uUDQbdyCFAa1A4TYwfySydUQbIVeHH6e7KEh6bZt-aybCMQQcmhsnbj4rE4D80ZY9pEWTw8ZtGPF9JAIUa7T8iIzjv99pj9yYaZkBwIKGKm49lpQ6eXSIuwtZcB_3F78crdBAj3Z3tN5poitSoOSxT29GBs.QxE7mlnbVjsaDwTP7Z0RyAWZiZGHsHYERYTbf9UvceY&dib_tag=se&keywords=Nirala%20Publications&qid=1719129788&s=books&sprefix=nirala%20publications%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C596&sr=1-106&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR21iPnG0255IPM07kSGn-4_U1f--VTQBCs3UfcynFd9DkwN8YQfccmkgJk_aem_KkwHEbCZOZW6x2S8sOr1tg  Production and Interview: Tina Giannoukos                Photo: Gay LynchProduction and Interview: Tian Giannoukos

This is a podcast episode of the 3CR Spoken Word show with host Indrani Perera. In this episode you will hear poets performing their poetry on the open mic at Littlefoot & Company with hosts Eden and Josh Carell.Poems for this show were recorded live at Bunjil Place in Narre Warren on Thursday 16th May 2024. Please note there is a trigger warning for this show for stalking and domestic violence. Poems included in the show:Don't forget to be grateful by CathyWe Contain Multitudes by ChloeSoulmates by SteveMaybe She Was Only a Lover by LionelLost in Time IndianaI didn't think we'd see how it ended ConnorWolves by Jen (trigger warning: stalking & domestic violence)Georgia by CaiSMT by JudeAn Ode to My Car by JordanThese Sleepless Nights by PoenSongbird by Aloma If you need to speak to someone about stalking or domestic violence after hearing Jen's poem, Wolves, call 1800 RESPECT on 1800 737 732. Calls are free and confidential. During June, 3CR is raising funds to stay on the air. YOUR support during our Radiothon keeps the station radical and enables us to give voice to hundreds of people and issues for another year. And remember, it's tax deductible.To contribute in the month of June go to:https://givenow.com.au/cr/3crspokenword  Thank you to Eden and Josh Carell of Littlefoot & Co for their fabulous event, Erica Sandison and Luke Dismay at Bunjil Place for assistance with the recording, all the poets for their poems and the audience for supporting spoken word. Show LinksLittlefoot & Co https://www.facebook.com/liitlefootandcompany/Bunjil Place, Narre Warren https://www.bunjilplace.com.au/eventsSonic Poetry Festival https://sonicpoetryfestival.com/eoiRed Room Poetry Month https://redroompoetry.org/projects/poetry-month/ 

Podcast episode of the 3CR 2024 RADIOTHON LIVE show.  In this episode, Waffle Irongirl and 3CR Spoken Word's new host Indrani Perera play listener contributions. YOUR support during Radiothon keeps the station radical and enables us to give voice to hundreds of people and issues for another year. And remember, it's tax deductible.To contribute in the month of June go to:https://givenow.com.au/cr/3crspokenwordThe poems included were:“Notes from the Diaspora” by Indrani Perera“The Profoundness of the Ordinary” by Farah Beaini“If There is a Butterfly that Drinks Tears” by Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon“Game Girl” by Caz Masel“Dress Me Up” by Beth Spencer“Boy” by Tim Loveday“Text Full of Flowers” by Lily Thomson“Bentbranch” by Ian Gostelow“Balance” by Wendy Beach“Do I” by Christine Lining BulandusThank you all contributors and Brendan Bonsack for tech assistance.

Finding My Feet is a new anthology from the Melbourne Poets Union. Poetry read by actor and poet, Ezra Bix, and Spoken Word producer, Di Cousens.

Philip Salom began publishing in 1980 and since then has written fifteen books of poetry and six novels. His book Sky Poems won the British Airways Commonwealth Poetry Prize in London for the overall Best Book of Poetry in the British Commonwealth and his first book The Silent Piano won the earlier Commonwealth Poetry Prize for Best First Book. He has published two collections of poetry written through heteronyms. The Keeper of Fish and Keeping Carter feature strongly lyric author-characters Alan Fish and M A Carter respectively and these two books complete the poetry trilogy begun with Keepers (2010). Keepers is a hybrid verse-novel set in a Creative Arts School. Salom's poetry collection The Well Mouth features poems, voices, portraits and an underlying narrative in prose. The Well Mouth was named a Sydney Morning Herald Book of the Year and an Adelaide Review Book of the Year.In 2015, Salom's poetry collection Alterworld completed the trllogy made up of Sky Poems, The Well Mouth and new work – Alterworld. His collection Hologrammatical was published in 2023. His highly acclaimed novels Waiting, The Returns and The Fifth Season have been listed for awards including the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2017, 2020 and 2021. His earlier novel Toccata and Rain was shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal and the WA Premiers Prize for Fiction, and Playback won the WA Premiers Prize for Fiction. In 2003, he was recognised with the Christopher Brennan Prize which is Australia's most prestigious lifetime award for poets – for "poetry of sustained quality and distinction".His poetry collection Hologrammatical can be purchased here: https://puncherandwattmann.com/product/hologrammatical-poems-2012-2022/(link is external)His novel Sweeney and the Bicycles can be purchased here: https://transitlounge.com.au/shop/sweeney-and-the-bicycles/(link is external)Production and Interview: Dr Tina GiannoukosPicture: Meredith Kidby

Philip Salom began publishing in 1980 and since then has written fifteen books of poetry and six novels. His book Sky Poems won the British Airways Commonwealth Poetry Prize in London for the overall Best Book of Poetry in the British Commonwealth and his first book The Silent Piano won the earlier Commonwealth Poetry Prize for Best First Book. He has published two collections of poetry written through heteronyms. The Keeper of Fish and Keeping Carter feature strongly lyric author-characters Alan Fish and M A Carter respectively and these two books complete the poetry trilogy begun with Keepers (2010). Keepers is a hybrid verse-novel set in a Creative Arts School. Salom's poetyry collection The Well Mouth feature poems, voices, portraits and an underlying narrative in prose. The Well Mouth was named a Sydney Morning Herald Book of the Year and an Adelaide Review Book of the Year.In 2015, Salom's poetry collection Alterworld completed the trllogy made up of Sky Poems, The Well Mouth and new work – Alterworld. His collection Hologrammatical was published in 2023. His highly acclaimed novels Waiting, The Returns and The Fifth Season have been listed for awards including the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2017, 2020 and 2021. His earlier novel Toccata and Rain was shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal and the WA Premiers Prize for Fiction, and Playback won the WA Premiers Prize for Fiction. In 2003, he was recognised with the Christopher Brennan Prize which is Australia's most prestigious lifetime award for poets – for "poetry of sustained quality and distinction".His poetry collection Hologrammatical can be purchased here: https://puncherandwattmann.com/product/hologrammatical-poems-2012-2022/His novel Sweeney and the Bicycles can be purchased here: https://transitlounge.com.au/shop/sweeney-and-the-bicycles/ Production and Interview: Dr Tina Giannoukos Picture: Meredith Kidby 

Finding My Feet is a new anthology from Melbourne Poets Union. Poetry read by Ezra Bix and Di Cousens. Produced by Di Cousens.

Dan Hogan (they/them) is a working-class writer originally from San Remo, NSW, Australia (Awabakal and Darkinjung Country) and is currently based on  Gadigal Country (Sydney).Dan's debut full-length poetry collection Secret Third Thing won the 2022-2023 Five Islands Prize for a first book of poetry and was released by Cordite Books in 2023, and can be purchased here. In their spare time, Dan runs small DIY publisher Subbed In.Dan's poetry has also been recognised by the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, Judith Wright Poetry prize and Val Vallis Award, among others.Spanning poetry, non-fiction and fiction, Dan's writing has appeared in Meanjin, Overland, Going Down Swinging, Jacobin, Southerly, Cordite, The Suburban Review, The Guardian, Crikey, Scum Mag, Rabbit, Sydney Morning Herald, ABC, The Lifted Brow and Voiceworks, among others. Their work has been anthologised in books such as Nothing to Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia (Allen & Unwin, 2022) and Groundswell (Overland, 2022). More of their work can be found at https://www.2dan2hogan.com/ Production and Interview: Tina Giannoukos  

In this episode, Palestinian-Australian activist, musician and intellectual Yousef Alreemawi and Lebanese-Australian writer and poet Farah Beaini have a beautiful dialogue about the poetry and life of famed Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.To learn more about the Averroes Project:https://www.facebook.com/averroesarabcentre

  On this episode, you'll be listening to an interview with Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon. (D-Napoleon) is a poet, songwriter and educator from Walyalup/Fremantle, Western Australia. ​She is the winner of both the Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize and Katharine Susannah Prichard Poetry Prize, shortlistee for the Peter Porter Poetry Prize and a two-time finalist for the Penelope Niven Prize in Creative Nonfiction. Her debut book of poetry, First Blood, was published by Ginninderra Press in 2019. Today we are speaking to her about her second book of poetry, “ If There is a Butterfly That Drinks Tears”, which is out now via Gazebo Book's poetry imprint, Life Before Man Books.https://www.nataliedamjanovichnapoleon.net/https://gazebobooks.com.au/product/if-there-is-a-butterfly-that-drinks-tears

David Brooks talks to Di Cousens about his 50 years in poetry and his new book, The Other Side of Daylight. Published by University of Queensland Press.

Ray Liversidge's latest book is …of a sudden published in 2023 by Ginninderra Press. His other books are: Oradour-sur-Glane published in 2017 by Littlefox Press. A French/English version of the book was published in 2019. no suspicious circumstances: portraits of poets (dead); The Barrier Range; The Divorce Papers; and Obeying the Call. He also appeared with two other poets in the first issue of Triptych Poets. His verse novel The Barrier Range was adapted for stage and performed as Seeking Fabled Waters at the 2010 Melbourne Writers Festival. In that year he also won the Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize and was recommended in the Rosemary Dobson Prize. His poetry has appeared in over 100 journals and anthologies in Australia, the US, Canada, the UK, Scotland, Ireland and Spain. See www.poetray.wordpress.com His latest collection, of a sudden, can be purchased here: https://www.ginninderrapress.com.au/store.php?product/page/2829/Ray+Liversidge+%2F+...of+a+sudden Production and Interview: Dr Tina Giannoukos

In today's show, we play a recording of Castlemaine poet, Rachael Wenona Guy reading live at Chamber Poets on 9 March . At the very end, there may be a special treat by the resident band Black Forest Smoke.To purchase Rachael's collection "The Hungry Air" go to: https://walleahpress.com.au/bookshop/product/guy-rachael-poetry-the-hungry-air/To find out more about Chamber Poets, find their facebook group here:https://www.facebook.com/groups/160882430777282

Di Cousens talks to Wiradjuri poet, Jeanine Leane, about her new book, Gawimarra Gathering. This is the second part in a two part series.