Australian Poetry Slam 2025 – SA Heat 1 – Woodcroft Library

Friday 1 August 2025
Doors open and poet sign-up 6:30pm for 7:00pm start.

Woodcroft Library
175 Bains Road, Morphett Vale, SA 5162

$15 for audience and competitors via TryBooking or at the door
Click here to book at TryBooking

This heat is proud to be part of WordFest Onkaparinga 2025.

Who will become our next Australian Poetry Slam Champion as audiences vote in events around the country? The prize? They tour Australasia sharing their creative thoughts and inspiring people everywhere to speak their own poetry.

Poets: share an original poem for two minutes on the mic.

Audience: … ... Read more ...

Poetry Slam Workshop – Port Adelaide

Saturday 19 July 2025
10:00am – 1:00pm

Port Adelaide Library Community Room
2-4 Church Street, Port Adelaide, SA 5015

$15
Click here to book at trybooking

With the 2025 National Poetry Slam competition kicking off in August, it’s a great time to select a poem and begin practicing your performance. 
To get you warmed up, Spoken Word SA and Port Adelaide Enfield Libraries are pleased to announce that we will be running a Slam Poetry Workshop in the lead up to the heats.

Join one of Spoken Word SA’s talented team members for a chance to explore slam poetry, … ... Read more ...

Poetry Slam Workshop – Woodcroft

Sunday 20 July 2025
1:00pm – 4:00pm

Woodcroft Library
175 Bains Rd, Morphett Vale, SA 5162

$15
Click here to book at trybooking

With the 2025 National Poetry Slam competition kicking off in August, it’s a great time to select a poem and begin practicing your performance. 
To get you warmed up, Spoken Word SA and Woodcroft Library are pleased to announce that we will be running a Slam Poetry Workshop in the lead up to the heats.

Join one of Spoken Word SA’s talented team members for a chance to explore slam poetry, follow a series of prompts to … ... Read more ...

SA Heats for the 2025 Australian Poetry Slam

Get ready for the South Australian heats for the 2025 Australian Poetry Slam!

Two poets chosen by the audience at each of our five South Australian heats will head to the SA Final at Goodwood Theatre in September. Our SA Final winner and runner-up will be off to the Nationals at the Sydney Opera House!

Who will become our next Australian Poetry Slam Champion as audiences vote in events around the country? The prize? They tour Australasia sharing their creative thoughts and inspiring people everywhere to speak their own poetry. 

Poets: share an original poem for two minutes on … ... Read more ...

Micropoetry Workshops with Adelaide City Library Poet-In-Residence, Kathryn Reece

Sunday, 29 June 2025
1:00pm – 3:00pm

Thursday, 3 July 2025
1:00pm – 3:00pm

Saturday, 12 July 2025
10:30am – 12:30pm

Adelaide City Library
3 Rundle Place, 77-91 Rundle Mall, Adelaide, SA 5000

Sessions are FREE but BOOKINGS REQUIRED.
Click here or at the link below.

You don’t want to miss out on this chance to explore short form poetry at these FREE workshops, delivered as part of Kathryn Reese’s poetry residency at Adelaide City Libraries!

Your world in one breath. Join local poet Kathryn Reese for these generative poetry workshops. Kathryn will introduce short forms such as haiku, … ... Read more ...

Hot night, hot poetry for the 2025 Summer Slam!

  • Winner TJ and runner-up Murphy
  • Winner: TJ
  • Runner-up: Murphy
  • Round 2 poets
  • Kash
  • Paul Kohn
  • Ben Admas
  • Ed Moran
  • Helium Liu
  • Brooklyn Saliba
  • John Willison
  • Tim O’Loughlin
  • Poet Anet Swain
  • Aaron Woolford
  • Amy
  • Sacrifice: Matthew Pankhurst
  • Guest: Mei Szetu
  • Emcee: Sarah-Jane Justice

What a fabulous 2025 Summer Slam! Hot poetry, cool venue, 15 poets on the stage, top shelf guest performer, a large enthusiastic audience, great prizes, and we had a slam-off!!

After two rounds of high quality poetry, including a slam-off for the final spot in Round 2, congratulations to winner, TJ, and runner-up, Murphy.

Big thanks … ... Read more ...

Mika Friebel

We were shocked and saddened to hear of the sudden death of Mika Friebel in the Northern Territory recently. She was a star of the Adelaide spoken word scene, having been an Australian Poetry Slam S.A. state finalist in 2017 and 2019, Summer Slam winner 2019 and finalist in 2018. So much talent lost.

A GoFundMe has been created to help assist family for costs involving her funeral and travel.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/mika-friebel

“Beautiful Mika, the sunshine on a cloudy day. The bright star who lit up the night sky. For those who had the pleasure of meeting Mika, you’d know just … ... Read more ...

Runner-up, SA Final of the 2024 Australian Poetry Slam – Matcho

Watch this fabulous performance by Matcho that was runner-up in the SA State Final of 2024 Australian Poetry Slam at Goodwood Theatre & Studios and sent him off to the Sydney Opera House to compete in the National Finals.

Congratulations to Matcho and all the other finalists.

Video recorded by Daniel Kennedy. Edit / titles & credits animations / original music by Ian Gibbins.