Spoken Word

A cup of tea and chat with acclaimed artist, Amy Bodossian. Love, sex and meditation. What it means to be vulnerable in the eyes of a crowd. And the importance of water. If ever wonder about these and many other things, don't worry, Amy has it covered.www. AmyBodossian.com** This program contains some course language **

Chris Wallace-Crabbe talks about his life in poetry and reads from his new book, Rondo.

David Stavanger phone Interview

John Englezos is a freelance photographer, a spoken word poet and Melbourne’s 2015 Poetry Slam Champion. He was part of the first Australian team representing at the National Poetry Slam Finals in Denver Colorado, 2017.His first book "If The World Were Upside Down" centres around notions of Hope, Identity and Wonder. He has mentored and run workshops for creative people in the fields of live perfo...

Rhiann Isaacs is an Afro-Guyanese poet whose pieces centre around identity, Pan-African issues and mental health. Rhiann joined us in the studio ahead of her appearance at the Feminist Climate Justice Poetry Night at Open Studio on 14th March, an event held in solidarity with the March 15th Golbal Climate Action strike and to celebrate feminism and climate justice. Rhiann shares some of her powerf...

Anne M Carson reads from her new book, Two Green Parrots. To be launched in April. Interview by Di Cousens.

Live recordings of Paul Škec at The Night Heron (Part II), and Tariro Mavondo at The Sloth Bar. Recorded and presented by George O'Hara. Photograph of Paul by Michael Reynolds.

Tune in to 3CR 855AM Thursday morning 9am to hear Koraly Dimitriadis in conversation with Carmen Main. Koraly will be reading from and discussing her latest book of poetry, "Just give me the pills", and delving into topics such as feminism, family and self belief. It was a joy to have her in the studio- a real treat awaits- her poetry and words simply need to be heard. To find out more about Koral...

It's Valentine's Day, so what better excuse to listen to some love poetry and shoot the breeze about romance? This week's guest is Blayke Percival, winner of the 2018 Sydney Road Writer's Cup. Blayke shares some fiery love poetry and ruminations about that ultimate human mystery!

Amanda Anastasi reviews two new books of poetry - The Open Book by David Malouf and Milk Teeth by Rae White. Interviewed by Di Cousens.

This programme features the poetry of long time 3CR stalwart, the late Lisa Bellear. Jen Jewel Brown has recently edited a beautiful anthology of Lisa's poetry for University of Western Australia Publishing. For twenty years, Lisa presented Not Another Koori Show on 3CR before her untimely death. She was not only a poet and broadcaster, but also an academic, social worker, photographer, theatre pr...

Jeltje Fanoy and Paul Skec live at the Night Heron

Hear Eric Beach, recorded live at the Dan O’Connell! Eric Beach was born in New Zealand in 1947, and moved to Australia in 1972. He is widely respected in the Australian poetry community, publishing several collections throughout the 70s, and in 1977 was co-founder of the Melbourne Poets Union. His 1996, Weeping for Lost Babylon, received critical acclaim, and won the Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize an...

On this week's show, we chat to Nour Abouzeid about the special exhibition currently running at the Immigration Museum, Kahlil Gibran: The Garden of The Prophet. Nour performs some of his own and Gibran's work, and discusses the various influences Gibran has had on himself and his writing. In the second half of the show, poet and songwriter, Alice Night, performs some pieces from her debut book of...

Gender Euphoria is a new show which will be performed as part of Midsumma for one night only on 24 January at the Arts Centre. Mama Alto and Fury talk to Di Cousens about the creation of the show and Fury shares some spoken word pieces. The show celebrates the trans experience.

Excerpts from a tribute gig to the great American poet Allen Ginsberg, presented at Hares and Hyenas Bookshop, Fitzroy, in 2017.

Poet, spoken word performer, and author of Ramblings of a Unique Mind, Astrid Mbani, is our guest this week, sharing some of her work, and chatting about men and women, the legacy of slavery, relationships and emotional language, masculinity and raising boys. Growing up granddaughter of a pastor, and daughter of an activist in the era of Apartheid in South Africa, Astrid discusses her own spiritua...

Emily recites her apology to all the women in the world - a 10 minute poetical tour de force - and other materials written for the Women Of Letters series.

On this week's show, we chat with street poet, Angelina Stanton, a very familiar face on the streets of Melbourne's CBD, stationed with her trusty typewriter and tapping out poetry "while you wait". Angelina shares some of her own work, reflects on her unique job, and why the typewriter is "an honest machine".Also in the program, multi-disciplinary artist, ReVerse Butcher, talks about her new work...

In this last interview, recorded in September 2018, Judith Rodriguez discusses her most recent anthology, The Feather Boy and Other Poems (Puncher and Wattnam). Interviewed by Di Cousens.

Daniel Hutley is from Essex in the UK, and has been a regular on Melbourne’s open mics for the last two years. His poetry explores distance and fragmenting relationships. He came second place in the June Shenfield poetry award and in the John Shaw Nielson poetry award. This year he’s had short stories published in Gargouille magazine and the Visible Ink Anthology. Tune in to hear him in conversati...

In this last interview, recorded in September 2018, Australian poet Judith Rodriguez talks about and reads from her most recent anthology, The Feather Boy and Other Poems. Interviewed by Di Cousens.

Felix Nobis LIVE @ The Night Heron

Loran Steinberg is featured in a regrettably rare extended set of her poetry. In it, she reveals herself to be a sensitive and quirky poet of highly diverse means. There are long stream of consciousness episodes, short biting word quips, and other stuff in between. Ela and Santo put her under scrutiny in their interview. Loran comes out of it all gliding confidently, talking not only about her wri...

On this week's show, Amit Dahiyabadshah is our special guest, visiting from India to share his resonant poetry and discuss some of the things he has learned from being a working poet for 25 years. Amit has traveled the world and been awarded on several continents for his poetic works. He is founder of Delhi Poetree, dedicated to the elevation of poetry as an art form. Also on the programme, Chalis...