Tell it Like it Is: Pop!

Hello me dears. I'm going to be one of the feature poets at the super-awesome-fun-times gig that's coming up this friday at Footscray Community Art Centre. Come along for some good ol fashioned poeting.

Pop! Facebook event

Here's the blurb:

Footscray Community Art Centre present a Tell It Like It Is special event: Pop!
Hosted by Rhys Rodgers, featuring performances by ten of Melbourne's finest spoken word super stars, & live interactive installations by Awkward/Amazing.

Come watch ten of Melbourne's premier poets cover their favorite pop songs.

Gaga, Madonna, the Beatles and the Backstreet Boys, watch out.

These word smiths are not afraid to inject irony and subvert meanings.
Whether you are a lover of pop music or prose, you are guaranteed a hilarious evening of entertainment.

Tell it Like it Is
Friday 27 May
The Basement Lounge
7pm
Tickets at the door $10 (cash only)

Wagga Bus Shelter Poetry Contest

Super news today! I've been selected to have one of my poems placed on bus stops around Wagga Wagga. Booranga Writers' Centre and Wagga City Council have come together to start up a public poetry project with poems that respond to or reflect the local environment. Wagga is my hometown, so it's great to have some of my stuff return to the old place.

The eight poems that have been chosen are:

‘Bifocal’ – Lachlan Brown
Untitled – Heather Shaw (who is utterly wonderful)
Silage – Diana Harley
Wollundry Lagoon – David Gilbey
Neenish Tart – David Prater
Folding The Leader – Laura Smith
Flood, 1974 – Susan Hawthorne
Hairy Panic – Claire Baker

Stillcraic

Wonderful Jennifer Compton has chosen one of my poems to be included in her Tuesday Poem series on her blog, Stillcraic. I'm gobsmacked and flattered that Jennifer remembered my poem after hearing it read in Boxhill a year or so ago, and even more flattered that she would publish it. Several people gave lovely responses. It was touching.

Take a look at it here.