Spoken Word

Santo Cazzati plays excerpts from the latest Voiceprints CD, No 15 in the series put out over the years by veteran avantgardist Sjaak de Jong. The pieces are experimental, being sometimes sound oriented, sometimes prone to disfigure conventional language, sometimes very abstract, sometimes ridiculous in their humour.

Rowena Molloy started reading at the ‘Left Bank’ in ’96 where she first met Melbourne Poets. She has sung in a couple of choirs.  Studied a BA at Deakin where she won the Media Competition in the Poetry Section, was printed in a couple of zines, as part of her uni course had her poems projected on a theatre wall at an A-list event while entertaining as a roaming performer and facilitated a live, o...

Witty, charming, thoughtful, insightful, unexpected - Krish Prasad is introduced to listeners by regular presenter Ela Fornalska.

Jennifer Harrison reads Images Reflections Gathering Tributes Andy Jackson reads from The Weight of The Glass live at The Dan Poetry longer extended version available at spokenword3cr.podbean.com Patrick Macgillicuddy Alexander (20 March 1940 – 21 September 2005) was an Irish-born poet who settled in Australia. Alexander was the son of Hugh Alexander, the Anglo-Irish mathematician famed for his wo...

Australian Poetry member Maxine Beneba Clarke is having a banner year, experiencing the kind of overnight success that really only comes after a decade of hard yards. Her debut short story collection, Foreign Soil, won the2013 Premier’s Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, and landed her a book deal with Hachette.

 Benjamin is currently working on some screenplays including one based on his novel Screwjob, a new poetry chapbook on things you don’t normally write poems about, some spoken word performances and various non-fiction projects. Benjamin Solah is a writer of truth, fiction and poetry, a spoken word artist and political activist. He grew up in the Western suburbs of Sydney, but now lives in Melbourn...

Ela Fornalska is joined by Audacious editor and convenor of the melbournespokenword.com website, Benjamin Solah, and 3CR Spoken Word co-founder Santo Cazzati. They talk about how new and younger poets access Melbourne's grassroots scene today and we hear tracks from the new Audacious CD, including poems by Amanda Anastasi, Anthony O'Sullivan and Kylie Supski.

n today's program Ela Fornalska's guest is Jeltje. A vast array of ground is covered, including influences, the migrant experience and being a migrant poet, politics and poetry, sound poetry and Jeltje's new collection 'Princes by night'.http://islandpress.tripod.com/ISLAND.htm- See more at: http://www.3cr.org.au/spoken-word/episode-201502260900/spoken-word-3cr-guest-poet-jeltje#sthash.7NnPkRnV.dp...

GIRLS ON KEY  – Girls on Key brings together the best up and coming female singer songwriters, giving them a platform and supporting young refugee women to learn music. bi-monthly residency  http://openstudio.net.au/event/girls-on-key/‘Open Studio in Northcote, Melbourne is one of those rare and intimate venues that finds a groovy niche and just keeps providing punters with a great night out based...

James Jackson, AKA The Beast AKA The Monster of Poetry is the last protégé of Shelton Lea and the original rock star poet. Encouraged by Shelton, James first read at the Dan in 2004 and first featured there the year after. Over the ensuing decade he has busted up slams, other poets and the expectations of many an incredulous audience. At the conclusion of 2007’s Monster of Poetry show for the Over...

Spoken Word has uncovered a wonderful new talent on the poetry scene, 18 year old Chalise Van Wyngaardt. Chalise moved to Melbourne this year specifically for its poetry scene and is a writing student of the revered Ania Walwicz at RMIT. Her delivery is forceful and passionate, her writing is highly informed and aware of long literary traditions, yet her spontaneous personality shines through at a...

http://nathancurnow.weebly.com/Nathan Curnow : poetAfter gaining qualifications in Community Development I worked in Drug and Alcohol and Crisis Housing for many years in Melbourne, where I quickly became numb and exhausted. I had been pursuing writing for a couple of years and so decided to commit further by quitting my job and enrolling in Creative Writing at Swinburne Tafe.  Following that I en...

Australian poet, Judith Rodriguez, has been teaching poetry at universities internationally and at the Council of Adult Education for fifty years. She brings to this program a global knowledge of poetic forms and history. This is Part 3 of a three part series. Rodriguez taught English at La Trobe University from 1969 until 1985. In 1986 she was  writer-in-residence at Rollins College, Florida, an...

Legendary spoken word artist from Fitzroy, Pi O, is featured in two longer pieces, one about a famous old Fitzroy musician, and the other about TV celebrity of yesteryear Graham Kennedy.

Anna Forsyth is a New-Zealand born writer and musician. For her day job, she writes and edits educational text books. Her first collection of poetry, A Tender Moment Between Strangers, was released in 2013 and her poems have appeared in several journals, including Landfall, FourW and n-Scribe. In 2012, she started Girls on Key, a bi-monthly music and poetry gig for women performers, raising funds...

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'The Year My Hair Fell Out' a factional account of that very first year working and living abroad. The book is set in Chuncheon and reveals the different and varied experiences one has when exposed to a foreign culture they know very little about.  http://www.amazon.com/The-Year-Hair-Fell-Out/dp/0992557704 When Australian Don Laridis turns 37 he realises that it's time for a 'real' change. He choo...

This is the second in a series of three programs on 20th century poetry in English. Rodriguez was born Judith Catherine Green in Perth and grew up in Brisbane. She was educated at Brisbane Girls Grammar School, and graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Arts. She then travelled to England, where she received a Master of Arts from Cambridge University in 1965, where she met...

A live recording from Open Studio with the poetry night, Girls on KeyBronwen Manger is a poet and spoken word artist, located in Box Hill. Bronwen performs her work at readings and events around Melbourne (often accompanied by her identical twin Emily Polites), and her poems have been published in various journals and magazines, including Best Australian Poems 2012, The Age, Going Down Swinging, T...

Anna Fern is a remarkable sound poet who stretches the physical possibilities of the human voice. In this programme she talks about some of the history of experimental sound poetry, with ample demonstrations of her own, and also talks about how such work is received by audiences. Anna refers to some of the improvisation groups she has performed with. And just to reveal her versatility, she even do...

Interview with Benjamin Solah about great website and CD launched recently by Melbourne Spoken Word peter davis presenter also thanks kind people who gave money to allow Spoken Word 3Cr to surpass its target for Radiothon

Australian poet, Judith Rodriguez, has been teaching poetry at universities internationally and at the Council of Adult Education for fifty years. She brings to this program a global knowledge of poetic forms and history. This is Part 1 of a three part series.

Yvette Stubbs is convenor of Cafe Arts in Warragul. She's published many poems and is known for great humour and lively poetry readings.---Yvette is described as the infamous mad woman of cloverlea who is one of the matriarchs of the poetry scene. She shepherds sheep, vascilates over vegies, and feasts on fajoas. At night she sits under a daya dah tree and surveys the domed sky, patting her half e...

Join Ela Fornalska and her guest Myron Lysenko for a special haiku focused programme. Ela and Myron discuss the appeal of haiku, talk about ‘rules’ and techniques and question whether writing haiku can make the world a better place. Listeners will also hear haiku of the original masters and some of Myron Lysenko’s original haiku and senryu. Musical experts by Leszek Możdżer (Tracks ‘Ex Ego’ and ‘I...

Scizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and anxiety are conditions that this weeks poets on Spoken Word live with and write about. Sound effects and music mixed in by Peter D.  http://www.daxcentre.org/collection/poetry-collection/