Spoken Word

Madeleine Dale talks to Di Cousens about her new book of poetry, Portraits of Drowning, published by the University of Queensland Press.

Kent MacCarter is a poet and editor. His publishing career began at University of Chicago Press in 2000; since then, he has worked with educational publishers. He is  the managing editor of Cordite Poetry Review and publisher of Cordite Books. His writing has been published widely and includes four poetry collections: In the Hungry Middle of Here (Transit Lounge, 2009), Sputnik’s Cousin (Transit L...

In this episode of 3CR's Spoken Word show aired on Thursday 17th October, you will hear Vasilka Pateras talk about ideas of home, the intricacies of language and the experience of being a migrant daughter. Vasilka Pateras lives in Naarm/Melbourne, and is an Australian-Macedonian writer whose poetry, reviews and articles have been published both nationally and internationally including Cordite, Mas...

This is the second interview with Jeanine Leane about her book of poetry, Gawimarra Gathering.

Sandy Jeffs was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1976 when it was considered something from which you could not recover. In the 1980s, she was among the first wave of people who started speaking publicly about living with a mental illness. Much of her writing has been about her struggle with schizophrenia. Sandy has published eight volumes of poetry. Sandy co-authored with Margaret Leggatt, Out of...

In this episode of 3CR's Spoken Word show aired on Thursday 19 September 2024, you will hear an interview with poet and spoken word artist, Jude Chrisan. Jude Chrisan is a boy learning how to be alive. He’s a passionate connecter, poet, and professional cry baby. Most importantly of all, Jude is a searcher for the beauty in the pain, in the mundane; he’s searching for the green in the grey. He’s a...

This episode of 3CR Spoken Word is an interview with Laura Fisher and Eddy Burger. They talk about absurdist poetry, collaboration, and Laura's play "Why Not Believe In Everything".Laura Fisher is an energetic poet, and performer who is well known on the Melbourne Spoken word scene for convening Radio Laria Poetry and MCing Girls on Key.  Through both these poetry nights, Laura has been a keen adv...

This is the first interview with Jeanine Leane about her book of poetry, Gawimarra Gathering.

A live recording of selected performances from Rochford Street Review's launch of their print magazine P76 Issue.9 (Sonic Edition). Performed at the Bergy Bandroom in Brunswick as part of the Sonic Poetry Festival 2024.Includes readings by:Jeanine Leane (After the Silence the Echo)Alex Skovron (Trigger Logic)Nadia Niaz (Motia, Djinn Hunter)Alison J. Barton (One Hand, Buried Light)Peter Bakowski (O...

Alicia Sometimes is a poet and broadcaster passionate about art and science. She has performed her poetry at many venues, festivals and events around the world. Her poems have been in Best Australian Science Writing, Best Australian Poems, Meanjin, Westerly and many more. Alicia is director/co-writer of the art/science planetarium shows, Elemental and Particle/Wave. In 2023 she received ANAT’s Syn...

Waffle Irongirl interviews Nadia Rhook.  Nadia is a non-Indigenous historian, poet, and educator, and the author of two history-themed poetry collections: boots (UWA Publishing) and Second Fleet Baby (Fremantle Press).

In this episode of 3CR's Spoken Word show aired on Thursday 8 August 2024, you will hear Alison J Barton talk about her forthcoming debut poetry collection, Not Telling, colonisation, German missionaries and psychoanalytic theory. Alison J Barton is a Wiradjuri poet whose work appears in Australian and international journals and anthologies such as Meanjin, Cordite, Westerly, Mascara Literary Revi...

Judith Bishop talks to Di Cousens about her new book, Circadia. Published by the University of Queensland Press.

Tom Petsinis is a novelist, playwright, and poet. He was born in Macedonia, Greece, and immigrated to Australia as a child. He lives in Melbourne and works as a mathematics co-ordinator at Deakin University. He has published several collections of poetry, including Sonnets: Offerings from Mount Athos, My Father’s Tools, Steles, Isolation, and Four Quarters, which won the Wesley Michel Wright Poetr...

In this episode of 3CR's Spoken Word show aired on Thursday 18 July 2024, you will hear an interview with poet, Aloma Davis. Aloma Davis’s poetry is concerned with social justice, beauty and kindness.  Despite her best efforts, birds frequently fly into her poems.  In 2022, she was a national finalist in the Australian Poetry Slam; in 2023, one of her poems was selected to be part of the Internati...

Australian poet, Kevin Brophy, talks to Di Cousens about writing poetry in Melbourne and overseas and his upcoming book, An Inventory of Longing, to be published by Whitmore Press.

Jennifer Mackenzie is a poet and critic. She has published two books which focus on Indonesia, Borobudur and Navigable Ink (both with Transit Lounge), and is working on a third. She is a member of the management committee of Australian Pacific Writers and Translators (APWT), and is co-editor of the Australian edition of the international, Nepalese-based, Pratik, a magazine of contemporary writing....

This is a podcast episode of the 3CR Spoken Word show with host Indrani Perera. In this episode you will hear poets performing their poetry on the open mic at Littlefoot & Company with hosts Eden and Josh Carell. Poems for this show were recorded live at Bunjil Place in Narre Warren on Thursday 16th May 2024. Please note there is a trigger warning for this show for stalking and domestic violence. ...

Podcast episode of the 3CR 2024 RADIOTHON LIVE show.  In this episode, Waffle Irongirl and 3CR Spoken Word’s new host Indrani Perera play listener contributions. YOUR support during Radiothon keeps the station radical and enables us to give voice to hundreds of people and issues for another year. And remember, it’s tax deductible. To contribute in the month of June go to:https://givenow.com.au/cr/...

Finding My Feet is a new anthology from the Melbourne Poets Union. Poetry read by actor and poet, Ezra Bix, and Spoken Word producer, Di Cousens.

Philip Salom began publishing in 1980 and since then has written fifteen books of poetry and six novels. His book Sky Poems won the British Airways Commonwealth Poetry Prize in London for the overall Best Book of Poetry in the British Commonwealth and his first book The Silent Piano won the earlier Commonwealth Poetry Prize for Best First Book. He has published two collections of poetry written th...

Philip Salom began publishing in 1980 and since then has written fifteen books of poetry and six novels. His book Sky Poems won the British Airways Commonwealth Poetry Prize in London for the overall Best Book of Poetry in the British Commonwealth and his first book The Silent Piano won the earlier Commonwealth Poetry Prize for Best First Book. He has published two collections of poetry written th...

Finding My Feet is a new anthology from Melbourne Poets Union. Poetry read by Ezra Bix and Di Cousens. Produced by Di Cousens.

In this episode, Palestinian-Australian activist, musician and intellectual Yousef Alreemawi and Lebanese-Australian writer and poet Farah Beaini have a beautiful dialogue about the poetry and life of famed Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. To learn more about the Averroes Project:https://www.facebook.com/averroesarabcentre

  On this episode, you’ll be listening to an interview with Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon. (D-Napoleon) is a poet, songwriter and educator from Walyalup/Fremantle, Western Australia. ​She is the winner of both the Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize and Katharine Susannah Prichard Poetry Prize, shortlistee for the Peter Porter Poetry Prize and a two-time finalist for the Penelope Niven Prize in Creati...