BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! WANTS YOU IN THE SMITHS ALTERNATIVE FOR POETRY SLAM!

That is correct, poetry slam! Which means you on the stage, in the audience, going to the bar, going to the toilet, yelling, cheering, heckling, waving your arms, demanding, not demanding, whatever, but all for poetry! Because this is the Poetry Slam!

And because BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is the poetry slam we have rules, 2 minutes on stage with no props no music and your original material, all for poetry! All for 1st Prizes! Yes, First Prizes!

And we have feature acts!

Tessa Rose
Tessa Rose is a poet and performance artist. She has performed her work for audiences at Queensland Poetry Festival, Noted Festival, Woodford Folk Festival, and various poetic events. Current projects include 24 Hour Gym with Pascalle Burton, and composing a series of Lynchian and Lynch-inspired found poetry. Her work has been featured at YouAreHere Festival 2014, published in Today, the voice you speak with may not be your own (Lavender Room), Cordite, and plastered across Canberra as part of ‘Bill Poetries 2016’. She lives in Sydney. 

Waffle Irongirl
Waffle Irongirl regularly sets out to write poetry in the venerable tradition of Blake and Whitman. But she keeps getting waylaid by strong opinions, her personal cultural context and a genuine fondness for the music of Cold Chisel. The fact she can’t resist the occasional slam just makes things worse. On-stage, she’s the poetical analogue of a heavy metal karaoke. Off-stage she’s vague and freshly introverted, so really, it isn’t you, it’s me.

And The Hadley Memorial Spots will this month be filled by Safeer Syed!

So join the Master of Conflict, the BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! CANBERRA NATIONAL PIANO MAN, The Score Adder, the MCs, the Sacrificial Poet and Andrew Galan for POETRY SLAM!

And remember, sign-up between 6:30pm and 7pm, Poetry Slam from 7pm! 1st Prizes and it is all over by 9:30pm! BE THERE!