Spoken Word SA Youth Week 2026 Showcase – Guest line-up revealed

Friday 17th April 2026
5:30pm – 6:30pm

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

FREE
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Adelaide has a vibrant spoken word community, with boundless amounts of talent. Get ready to be awed by some of this city’s young rising stars in Spoken Word SA Youth Week Showcase, held in partnership with Adelaide City Libraries. Four poets, all under the age of 25, will be sharing their original words and performances. Their voices represent a bright future, and their work will leave you inspired.

LEVI YOUNG

Levi Young (he/him) is a 21 year old visual artist, writer and emerging poet entering the underground realms of the Adelaide spoken word scene. He sees his downbeat poetry as a form of psychogeography, documenting and unpacking the absurd spectacle of world affairs and the intimate and atmospheric qualities of what it means to grow up in suburban Adelaide in the 21st century via the powerful medium of spoken word.

(original image by Jazz Fechner Lante)

MURPHY

An absolute lightweight, devout non-believer, and the most hopeless romantic you’ve ever met, Murphy is a young poet new to both Adelaide and its poetry scene. As a queer oddball running from the confines of rural Queensland, they have featured in FEAST festival events and was runner-up at the 2025 Summer Slam. Murphy uses their writing to understand everything they have been and will become. In other words: they have absolutely no clue who they are, what they are doing, or how to live in this strange little world. Maybe with enough poetic musings they’ll figure it out.

SOLAR

After making it to the final in both the Spring and Summer Poetry Slams, Solar (stage name) is eagerly anticipating every upcoming competition. We are just as eager to follow their journey! Solar’s poetry is rich with metaphors and self-discovery.

TJ

TJ (he/him) is a 21-year-old queer trans man living in the southern suburbs of Adelaide, on unceded Kaurna land. His poetry is a conversational expression of thoughts about the world, queer identity, his Icelandic-Australian background and the human body. He was a SA Slam finalist in 2025, coming runner up and progressing to the National finals, performing at the Sydney Opera house in October 2025. He has performed at a poetry event put on for Gawler Fringe, featured in a Feast Festival queer poetry showcase and performed at a Fringe event put on by Ellipsis poetry.

Presented in Partnership with Spoken Word SA and Adelaide City Libraries.

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