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 […]
Local artist and award-winning poet Scott-Patrick Mitchell is launching his latest chapbook ‘Inner Pity Poems’ tomorrow night at Paper Mountain. Mitchell has made a name for himself on the poetry scene as Senior Poetry Editor for The Poets Without Limits Magazine, and his recent marathon 24-Hour Performance Poem at Newcastle’s Crack Theatre Festival. Inspired by […]
Here’s our challenge, create a poem of your own by using the words and pictures in this issue of OUTinPerth. Cut it up, tear it up, find the letters and words that you need and then stick them into place like a classic ransom note, just like Graeme’s ode to Ricki-Lee at the top of the […]
Poetry is a peculiar beast. Simultaneously intelligent, difficult, raw, emotional and insightful, it is the bane of most people who had to struggle through it in high school. But those same people probably found some comfort in writing poetry during adolescence, such is the crafts charm. And while said poetry may have never measured up […]
Perth poet Scott-Patrick Mitchell, winner of the Creatix Poetry Award, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to support a new experimental performance at Newcastle’s Crack Theatre Festival. Mitchell, who had submitted his poem to Creatix for publishing, did not realise he was entering his work for a prestigious award – and was surprised to discover he […]
Scott-Patrick Mitchell has signed himself up for a challenge. The performance poet is heading to Crack Theatre Festival in Newcastle in early October where he’s agreed to perform a 24 hour long improvisational work. While this will be Mitchell’s longest ever live performance he’s not sure what his current record is. “I remember back when […]
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 […]