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OUTspoken: Get a taste of Perth’s queer poetry showcase

OUTspoken: Get a taste of Perth’s queer poetry showcase

LGBTIQA+ history has a rich rollcall of outspoken poets, individuals who tackled love, language, society, culture and education in revolutionary ways. Such luminaries and icons include Sappho, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Allen Ginsberg and Carol Anne Duffy; but these icons all started out as nervous, emerging poets, uncertain of their words, let alone their future […]

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OUTspoken: Local queer talent at Perth Poetry Festival

OUTspoken: Local queer talent at Perth Poetry Festival

OUTspoken is returning for a second edition for this year’s Perth Poetry Festival, celebrating incredible local queer talent. Ten authors will be reading at the event, including PFF 2016 feature poets Alex Biddle and Jakob Boyd (pictured), Ben Marchant, Luka Buchanan, Kai Schweizer, Jesse Oliver and MC Scott-Patrick Mitchell. All are welcome to try their […]

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OUTspoken at the Perth Poetry Festival

OUTspoken at the Perth Poetry Festival

The 2015 Perth Poetry Festival is on this weekend including artists from around Australia and South East Asia. The four day festival at the Northbridge Piazza Community Centre will feature poetry slams, workshops, readings and discussion circles. This year marks the first year that OUTspoken, a queer Perth performance poetry group, will be attending the […]

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