Spoken Word

 Ela Fornalska is a poet, language teacher and emerging broadcaster. She had a hiatus from the Melbourne poetry world to live and work in Germany and complete post graduate study on her return. She is now back and a brand new member of the 3CR Spoken Word team of presenters. Ela has performed her work around Melbourne, as well as being published by various literary journals, some of which include...

Amy Bodossian, quirky, kinky, passionate, colourful, philosophical, spontaneous, unpredictable from one moment to the next, is captured in this studio appearance with Santo Cazzati. The most prosaic conversations between them somehow slip unobtrusively into fine art of the fringe variety. Amy reads her poems about chasing love, her childhood, chasing love, the life of an artist, chasing love, and....

Ela Fornalska’s first guest on Spoken Word is Elizabeth ‘Lish’ Skec. Her latest collection of poetry is Breath. Today we will be in conversation with Lish about her poetic life and hear some special selections from Breath which showcase her diversity as a poet.  Facebook page for Breath: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Breath/284331441740862Amazon page for Breath: http://www.amazon.com/dp/064691933...

Santo Cazzati from 3CR Spoken Word performs poetry by Paul Verlaine with musical selections by Gabriel Faure. Santo reads Verlaine in both French and English and mixes in the exquisite music of Faure.     Poet Paul Verlaine Paul-Marie Verlaine was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and Fre...

Jennifer Harrison reads her tender and exquisitely written poetry. She writes both with simplicity akin to childlike observation/ curiosity of details, then shifts to depth of poetic theory in her reflections upon art, nature and any subject she chooses she explores fully until its essence is distilled into poetry. Jennifer writes with perseverance to uncover the words that most need to be spoken...

The inaugural broadcast of 3CRs Spoken Word Show, on Thursday 21 May 2009, with presenters Rhonda Jankovic, Santo Cazzati, Peter Goodyear and Gerard Watkins.