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Australian Poetry Slam 2024 – SA Heat 1 excites with nail-biting finish!

  • 2024 Heat 1 winners
  • Heat 1 winner Arantza Garcia
  • Heat 1 runner-up Ben Adams
  • Anna-Mei Szetu – slam-off runnerup
  • Guest Thom Sullivan
  • Shayla R
  • Apolo
  • Nicola Watson
  • Adam Paul B
  • Carel Trezise
  • Suze Hall
  • Conor Brown
  • Andrew Hook
  • Jenny Benham
  • John Willison
  • Annette Swain
  • River Hill
  • Matilda Menz
  • Will Manos
  • Emcee Sarah Jane Justice
  • Audience at SLSA

The SA Heats of the 2024 Australian Poetry Slam began in top form with Heat 1 at the State Library of South Australia. With 17 competitors, the large audience was treated to a fabulous and diverse display of quality spoken word poetry. The … ... Read more ...

Australian Poetry Slam 2024 – SA Heat 2, with guest feature artist Cayley Ferguson

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. … ... Read more ...

Australia Poetry Slam 2024 – SA Heat 1 guest feature artist: Thom Sullivan

Thom Sullivan is a writer, editor and reviewer of poetry. His debut book of poems, Carte Blanche (Vagabond Press), won the Noel Rowe Poetry Award and the Mary Gilmore Award for the best first book of poems published in Australia in 2019. His poems have been published in Australian Book Review, Australian Love Poems, Australian Poetry Anthology and The Best Australian Poems.

We’re all very keen to hear Thom’s words at the microphone in his heat one feature set. We’re also excited for the competition!

SA Heat 1
Saturday 3 August 2024
State Library of South Australia
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Australian Poetry Slam 2024 – SA Heat 1

Saturday 3 August 2024
Doors open for sign-up at 6:30pm.
Slam starts at 7:00pm

State Library of South Australia
cnr Kintore Avenue and North Terrace.

$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 … ... Read more ...

YOUR VOICE COULD CHANGE THE WORLD 

Slam poetry has been used to amplify the voices that need to be heard to enact change. From climate action, women’s rights, mental health advocacy, to preservation of First Nations culture, and everything in between. If everyone was listening to you, what would you want them to hear?

Hosted by SWSA and the State Library of South Australia, this series of three sessions in July will use the national competition’s rules and structure, allowing you to learn how to write, perform, and make people want to listen.

All sessions at
Hetzel Lecture Theatre, Institute Building, State Library of South Australia… ... Read more ...

A final farewell to Alison Paradoxx…

Australian Poetry Slam 2017 SA State Final at Goodwood Theatre. pic: Luxi

It is with great sadness that we share our final farewell to Alison Paradoxx (Bennett), who recently departed this physical world.

Guest performer in 2018 Australian Poetry Slam SA heats. pic: Lucinda Corin

Alison appeared on the local spoken word scene, apparently ready-made, with her powerful, challenging performances. From libraries, nightclubs and theatres to the Sydney Opera House itself we were graced with the magnificent words she crafted and performed. She was 2016 SA state winner and national finalist of the Australian Poetry Slam. She then developed her … ... Read more ...

Get ready for the SA Heats of the 2024 Australian Poetry Slam

We are excited to announce the dates and locations for the SA Heats of the 2024 Australian Poetry Slam. More details will be available soon. But in the meantime, start getting your best work ready to perform on stage!

Remember the key rules: you only have 2 minutes for one original poem with no props. It must be new work that you have not previously performed in a heat or final of the SA Poetry Slam. Full rules for 2024 also will be available soon.

All heats are in the evening.

Heat 1
Saturday 3 August 2024
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Soulful Home with City Library Poet in Residence Tikari Rigney

We are excited to announce the first Adelaide City Library Poet In Residence for 2024. Tikari Rigney is a non-binary Kaurna, Narungga and Ngarrindjeri visual artist, curator and poet. Working in a range of mediums from performance, illustration sculpture to writing. Their practice references their queer bodily experience, Aboriginality and the complexities of human connection.

“This residency is in response to environment, displacement, the feeling of home or lack thereof in your own body, with people around you, places and spaces. In response to what is going on in the world and in my own little world. The exhale of … ... Read more ...