Saturday 10 August 2024
Doors open for sign-up at 6:30pm.
Slam starts at 7:00pm
Port Adelaide Library
2-4 Church Street, Port Adelaide, SA 5015.
$10 to compete or join the audience.
Click here to book at trybooking.
We write revolutions! Over 1000 writers release wild words on audiences across Australia. Poets break free from their notebook cages landing on a stage near you. Australian Poetry Slam 2024 (APS ’24) invites you to cheer, snap, hold-up scorecards in this nation-wide celebration of spoken-wordsmiths. APS ’24 is about unleashing your thoughts; launching mini-revolutions, like a chorus of kingfishers on a mission. Writers let fly. Alight upon the mic for two minutes. Shout, call out, even softly warble your fresh lit. Crowds will flock with cheers and hoots. Judges, chosen from the audience, will send two poetic messengers from each heat on to the South Australia State Final! Two State Finalists will then head off to the National Final at Sydney Opera House on 13th October 2024.
Are you the next APS Champion? Win a prize worth $20,000, including publication and gigs from Byron to Bali and beyond.
Poets must perform in their state or territory of usual residence. You must perform original new work. You will have 2 minutes to perform a single poem with no props or musical accompaniment. Read the full APS ‘24 rules here: www.australianpoetryslam.com/rules.
Click here to read the rules as applied to the SA Heats and Final.
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Our guest performer for Heat 2 is Cayley Ferguson!
Cayley first performed spoken word poetry at 15 at Spoken Word SA’s Summer Slam, and she enjoys examining the conflict between personal desires and the expectations of society. She often writes in response to inspiration from literature, myth and story. Cayley’s poetry evokes strong imagery through extended metaphor and she loves a good internal rhyme. Cayley has been engaging with the community of spoken word poets through Spoken Word SA over the past three years, and this journey led to her performing as a State finalist at the Sydney Opera House in last year’s national final of the Australian Poetry Slam, which was an incredible experience.