2012 WA Poetry Festival

2012 WA Poetry Festival

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Posted 2012-08-06 by MaggieVPfollow

Fri 17 Aug 2012 - Mon 20 Aug 2012

Since its humble beginnings in 2004, the Spring Poetry Festival has grown, had a name change and joined forces with the Perth Winter Arts Season to offer four days of poetry, performances and workshops.


Most events are held in or near the Perth Cultural Centre. The Wetlands Stage will host Poets Aloud on Friday and Monday, featuring readings from local, national and international poets. An open mic segment offers the opportunity for everyone to participate.

The nearby PICA Bar is the home of the Festival Launch party on Friday night. Other highlights at PICA include an Evening of Comic Poetry, stars of the future at Young Poets and the Sunday evening Poetry Slam.

At the Slam, poets have 2 minutes to impress a panel of judges selected from the audience at random.

Slam performances might include rap, songs, love poetry and who knows what else - but they will be entertaining!


On Saturday there's a Poets Lunch and afternoon of readings at the Moon Cafe, both hosted by the Perth Poetry Club . Enjoy meeting and talking to some of Australia's best poets in the relaxed cafe atmosphere.

Further afield there are readings at Crow Books in Victoria Park and a celebration of sound, voice and music in poetry at The Artifactory in Osborne Park, including the announcement of the Song Lyric contest winner.

The Festival also offers a range of workshops: check out Marketing Yourself as a Poet, Poetry and Emotion, Page to Stage, Multilingual Poetry or Words & Music with renowned Irish singer songwriter Andy White. All workshops are held in the Kaos Room downstairs at the Blue Room Theatre and cost $20 ($15 for members of WA Poets Inc).

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