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POETS OUT LOUD 2021 YOUTH SLAM – The countdown is on!

What a busy year it’s been… Our Poets Out Loud team have been workshopping, meeting, travelling, planning, performing, teaching, and juggling! Sarah, Anna, Katinka and I have been working steadily on the Youth Program, bringing slam poetry workshops to high schools in the Northern… Continue Reading “POETS OUT LOUD 2021 YOUTH SLAM – The countdown is on!”

2020 Youth Slam wrap-up & Studio Sessions

In 2020 Poets Out Loud brought Youth Slam Poetry workshops to the Northern Rivers in the midst of a global pandemic. We didn’t know how it would all pan out when Covid really struck in March, but we held our nerve and pushed forward… Continue Reading “2020 Youth Slam wrap-up & Studio Sessions”

Nimbin Performance Poetry World Cup 2019

It was a sunny Saturday on the 7th of September and I was locked and loaded for the Nimbin Performance Poetry World Cup. The poem was a doozy, an eight-minute, free verse behemoth. It was called ‘Maitland’. First, a bit about the poem. Then,… Continue Reading “Nimbin Performance Poetry World Cup 2019”