Every year we lament the commercialisation of Valentines Day, all the while scrambling as we try to book a table at that hot new restaurant. Well, if you’re looking for something unique and out of the box this year – something that will wow your beau while showing how cultural you can be – look […]
How To Be Held Maddie Godfrey Burning Eye Books Poetry, at its most potent, lingers. How To Be Held by Perth poet Maddie Godfrey certainly lingers long after the initial reading. The words within brim: with potency; with bravery; with belonging. This is the kind of poetry we need right now: compassionate; inventive; inclusive; full […]
Above The Mealy-Mouthed Sea | The Blue Room Theatre | til Feb 3rd | ★ ★ ★ ★ Some people attend a Fringe show in the hopes of a good laugh. Others invariably seek out Fringe cringe, or shows that are awkward, either through intent or outright inability. Then there are those of us who look […]
Slam poetry is the competitive art of performance poetry. You could also say it’s the competitive art of being brave and authentic with yourself, of having the audacity to get up on a stage and allow an audience to judge your words, your poem. After all, there is certain amount courage required in revealing the […]
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 […]
Head down to the Centre for Stories tonight for a selection of queer writers performing their works with pride. Glitter, Rainbows, Love is presented by The Literary Youth Fest, KickstART Festival and is a part of National Youth Week WA. Local queer poets Maddie Godfrey and Kai Schweizer will be hosting the evening, which is open […]
Aristophanes, Kucka & L-FRESH The LION | Chevron Festival Gardens | ★ ★ ★ Friday night at the Chevron Festival Gardens saw an eclectic triple header with Sydney rapper L-FRESH The LION and local experimental-electronic favourite Kucka opening for Taiwanese internet star, Aristophanes. L-FRESH The LION was the highlight of the night. Despite playing to […]
If My Body Was A Poem | Paper Mountain | Until Jan 26 | ★ ★ ★ ★ If my body was a poem, it’d have all the vigour and verve of Maddie Godfrey’s debut Fringe World show, If My Body Was A Poem. In this bold work, Godfrey examines body shaming, body positivity, love, childhood, hope, despair, rape […]
The Perth poetry scene has been growing magnificently in the past 18 months, so much so we now have a crop of cool literary talent hitting the national and global scene. Maddie Godfrey is one of these rising stars. At just 21, Godfrey has been a finalist in the Australian Poetry Slam, won a swag […]
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 […]
