Readings, events and launches

 Melbourne Spoken Word Launch Second Melbourne Spoken Word and Poetry Festival Program

17-21 October 2019 Workshops now available.As the program for this year's Poetry on the Move festival takes shape, we  announce the availability of our very popular poetry workshop series. This year we have 4 workshops available, one from each of our...

Monday, 17 June 2019 from 18:30-19:30  Readings Carlton309 Lygon Street, Carlton, Victoria, Australia 3053 Over three evenings this Melbourne winter, we'll host nine poets. For our first winter reading we have:Emma Lew reading from her much-anticipated...

Monday 3 June - 7pm to 9pmMarianne Boruch & Mark Roberts$10 / $5 at the door. Open mic Marianne Boruch is a Fulbright Senior Scholar in UC’s International Poetry Studies Institute. Her work includes 10 poetry collections, the latest Eventually One...

Join us every Saturday afternoon 2pm - 4pm at the Moon Café, 323 William Street Northbridge WA to celebrate poetry with feature poets + open-mike at Perth Poetry Club. The month of June we have the following features…1-June-19Marion Whelligan +...

Write Off! the Katherine Writers’ Festival being run by the Katherine Region of Writers, in partnership with Katherine Regional Arts and with sponsorship from the NTWC, is fast approaching!

Express Media is delighted to present Making Tracks: a travelling pop-up workshop series and zine publication aimed at developing the work of young writers in Australia.

Thurs 20 June, from 6.30pm. Open mic soiree. Free admission. 77 Brighton St, Petersham (Sydney inner west) Poets at Petersham Bowlo.Details an evening of open mic presentations - mainly poetry, and also comedy, acoustic music and short stories/anecdotes....

In 2019, WestWords will be holding a poetry night on the last Thursday of every month at WestWords’ Centre for Writing commencing 30th May at 7pm. This series, convened by David Adès will showcase some of our most respected poets, starting with Richard...

Les Murray was one of Australia’s best loved poets. He wrote with grace and fireworks about country life, and, had a gift for exquisite language that moved through every register. After he passed away in April 2019, West Australian Poets Inc and the Centre...

TUESDAY 21 MAY, 20196pm to 8pm Poetry Workshop, hosted by Siobhan Hodge, is a safe and dynamic space where you can craft your poetry and offer feedback to other poets. It provides a collaborative opportunity to share your work-in-progress. It will be...

Sat 1 June 2019, 10:30 am – 12:00 pmPrice: FreeLocation: Minor Works Building, 22 Stamford Court, Adelaide, SA 5000Do you love language? Are you excited by the power of words? Poetry is everywhere: from the songs on the radio to the ads on TV.Join ART...

Sunday 26 May at 3pm at Better Read Than Dead, 265 King Street, Newtown Join editor and renowned poet Judith Beveridge, publisher Alan Wearne, together with Steve Darmody and Toby Davidson for the launch of poet Robert Harris's collection, The Gang of One:...

Experience the history of the Convent like never before at this world premiere performance of Andrew Aronowicz’s “The Abbotsford Mysteries’, based on Patricia Sykes' evocative book of poetry of the same name. This song cycle is an intensely intimate and...

176 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne EWF19 Program Launch: The Awkward Stage   Wheeler Centre | 15 May, 6.15pm The 2019 Emerging Writers’ Festival launches with a night of readings. What, exactly, is an ‘emerging’ writer? At what point do you come out of the...

Granville Town Hall 10 Carlton Street Granville, NSW 2142Friday 10 May, 7:00 pm UQP & Arab Theatre Studio invite you to the launch of The Lost Arabs by Omar Sakr Omar Sakr will be in conversation with Gomeroi poet Alison Whittaker and the event will...

Wednesday 22 May at 6pm at West Space Gallery, Level 1/225 Bourke St, Melbourne.

Classical ballerina to edgy poet: an unusual path in the artsLauranton Books invites you to Readings St Kilda for a glass of wine and a conversation between poet Jennifer Strauss and biographer Julia Hamer about the life and work of the Australian dancer...

This month a Sydney play will be performed entirely in verse! Written by award-winning playwright Felix Nobis, ‘Boy Out of the Country’ is a bush ballad for contemporary regional life, in vernacular verse reminiscent of the poetic tradition of Banjo Patterson.

You are invited to the launch of UNUSUAL WORK No.26 at 7:30pm Thursday 2 May.ENTRY: $10 + FREE COPY of magazine(SUBSCRIBERS FREE ENTRY)PERFORMANCES BY:Grant Alexander McCracken,Angelina Stanton, Lynkushka,Eddy Burger, Sean O’Callaghan,t h a l i a + Alan...