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Summer Slam 2024 – Heat 2 featuring Mixed Bag collaboration!

04/01/2024

Sarah’s Sister’s Sustainable Cafe
117 Semaphore Road, Semaphore, SA 5019

Friday 19 January 2024
Doors and sign-up from 6:30pm for 7:00pm start

$10 entry at trybooking or at the door for both audience and competitors.

Slam it into 2024! Spoken Word SA’s annual Summer Slam is back. In a friendly, low stakes – but high fun – competition, poets will bring their words and voices to stages around Adelaide. The top three scoring poets from each heat will make it to the final… along with two “wild card” entrants! Our wild cards will be stand-out performers from any heat that … ... Read more ...

Summer Slam 2024 – Heat 1

28/12/2023

State Library of South Australia
cnr North Terrace and Kintore Avenue, Adelaide SA 5000

Saturday 13 January 2024
Doors and sign-up from 6:30pm for 7:00pm start

$10 entry at trybooking or at the door for both audience and competitors.

Watch Katherine Sortini’s winning performance in the 2023 Australian Poetry Slam SA Final

13/11/2023

Katherine Sortini, winner South Australian Poetry Slam 2023 performing at the State Final Goodwood Theatre, Goodwood 30th September 2023.

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Feast Poet-in-Residence Jacinta Way presents “Sonder” at City Library

30/10/2023

The poetry fun never stops here in Adelaide, and during November as part of Feast Festival, Adelaide City Libraries is hosting a unique poet in residence experience!

Feast Poet-in-Residence Jacinta Way presents “Sonder”.

Have you ever looked at a stranger on a bus and wondered what they were thinking, where they grew up and when they stopped believing in the tooth fairy? Join local theatre-maker and poet, Jacinta Way, in a one-on-one guided conversation with a complete stranger. Ask the questions you’ve always wanted to ask in a safe space and finish your meeting by creating a … ... Read more ...

Be Natural Poetry Slam – poetry comes to the Nature Festival

15/10/2023

winner – Radhe Krishna

runner up – River Hill

third – Tracey O’Callaghan

Henry Davis

Kerryn Tredrea

David Cronin

Conor Brown

Ginny Thorne

Emma Collins

Tim O’Laughlin

Jill Wherry

Luke Baker

Beth Baillie

Drew Cuffley

guest – Matthew Pankhurst

audience

MC Kami

The “Nature Festival – Be Natural Poetry Slam” brought out a fine group of poets, including some excellent new faces, for a fabulous night of nature-inspired poetry. Guest poet Matthew Pankhurst entertained us with hedgehogs, mice and other denizens of the wild. Congratulations to winner Radhe Krishna, runner-up River Hill, and third-place Tracey O’Callaghan.… ... Read more ...

Nature Festival 2023 – Be Natural Poetry Slam

06/10/2023

Saturday 14 October 2023
Poets sign up from 6.30pm, slam commences at 7pm.

Dymocks Adelaide
Regent Theatre Level 1, Shop 45 101/107 Rundle Mall, Adelaide

$10 at Humanitix

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Now in its fourth year, the ‘Be Natural’ Poetry Slam is an all ages event with the broad theme of nature and what it means to you giving the participants the opportunity to stretch their creative ‘limbs’ and think about what nature and the natural world does mean to them. The rules are simple – one poem, two minutes maximum, no props, no costumes, no … ... Read more ...

SA Final of the 2023 Australian Poetry Slam – we have our winners!

02/10/2023

finalists

winner – Katherine Sortini

runner up – Cayley Ferguson

Arantza Garcia

Tim O’Loughlin

Carissa Fischer

Drew Cuffley

Matthew Pankhurst

Melinda Gaughwin

Chris Battistuzzi

Alex Vansilalom

guests – Rainey & Chris Jaksa

Sacrifice – Tracey O’Callaghan

MC Sarah Jane Justice pulls a name from the hat

flowers for Sarah

timekeeper / scorekeeper – Kami

audience at Goodwood Theatre

The 2023 SA State Final of the Australian Poetry Slam was top-shelf quality from start to finish. Congratulations and big cheers to winner Katherine Sortini, runner-up Cayley Ferguson, finalists Alex Vansilalom, Matthew Pankhurst, Tim O’Loughlin, Chris Battistuzzi, Arantza Garcia, Drew Cuffley, … ... Read more ...

Poet in Residence – Unexpected Poetry Application

27/09/2023

Presented by Poet in Residence – Carissa Fischer (they/them)

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

This is a free event but you need to book your place:

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Are you tired of what poetry “should” look like? Bored of reading works from another T.S Elliot wannabe? Does the slam scene from 21 Jump Street hit a little too close to home? Look, poetry is a subject that we all study and then forget in school, but that’s because we’re only taught one version. Poetry goes beyond this … ... Read more ...

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

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