Spoken Word

A poet, publisher of Rochford Press and co-editor of Rochford Street Review, as well as an emerging artist, Linda Adair grew up on Dharug country without knowing whose land she stood on. She now lives and works on Dharug and Gundungarra lands in the Blue Mountains, Australia, and pays her respect to the Traditional Custodians of the unceded Country which always was, and always will, be Aboriginal land. Her debut poetry collection, The Unintended Consequences of the Shattering, was published in 2020 by Melbourne Poets Union. Her poems have been anthologised in To End All Wars, Messages from The Embers, Poetry for the Planet, Pure Slush Volume 25, Work! Lifespan Vol 5 and have been published in Bluepepper, The Blue Nib, FemAsia, Meusse, Ozburp, and most recently in Live Encounters Poetry & Writing. As a resident poet at BigCi in 2022, Adair researched the failed shale-oil mining town Newnes and wrote poems and painted canvases to consider the childhood point of view of her favourite aunt in that dour town during the 1920s and ’30s. That work was exhibited as Finding Jesse of Newnes at DIP (Darlington Installation Project) in September 2022. Adair was consequently invited to read her poetry to conservationists, historians, rock climbers and adventurers, not the usual poetry audience at The Back to Newnes Weekend in November 2022. During a Varuna Residency in April 2023, she began work on a verse memoir of her family’s complex relationship to unceded land. Some of the poems she worked on were published in the May issue of Live Encounters Poetry and Writing. Three short poems and three canvases referencing these concerns were part of Together or Otherwise A(part) the MAPBM (Modern Art Projects Blue Mountains) members group show at Articulate Project Space in Leichhardt, NSW. She is keen to take poetry out to a wider audience through connections with her visual art. She was a featured poet at ‘The Poetry of Rethinking’ event in May at Poetica at La Mama Courthouse.To Purchase The Unintended Consequences of the Shattering:  https://rochford-pressbookshop.square.site/product/the-unintended-consequences-of-the-shattering-by-linda-adair/13 Picture: Mark RobertsProduced & Presented by Tina Giannoukos

The 2023 Radiothon edition of 3CR Spoken Word, presented by Waffle Irongirl and Brendan Bonsack.Featuring poetry readings from:Chae PatersonLinh TranSteven AtkinsonJazz MoneyJosh CakeFrances HorneJennifer MackenzieThank you to everyone who pledged their support for the show this year!

Fotoula Reynolds launched her fourth book of poetry, Kairós, at Cherry poets on Saturday 3 June 2023.This episode of the Spoken Word show replays a recording of the event.Fotoula's book is available from Litoria Press below:www.litoriapress.com/kairos-fotoula-reynolds

Poet Peter Bakowski talks to Di Cousens about his recent work, including spending time on retreat in Gippsland and at a virtual residency with the City of Manchester.

In Part 2 of this two-part interview, Patricia Sykes, Angela Costi and Marion May Campbell talk with Tina Giannoukos about their works in the Spinifex Press anthology, "It's All Connected. Feminist Fiction and Poetry" along with editor Pauline Hopkins.Pauline Hopkins is an editor at Spinifex Press and a bookseller. She majored in psychology at university and completed further studies in English and Professional Writing and Editing. She has worked in local government, as a speechwriter and media adviser in state government. She is an avid swimmer, has been a swim teacher, swim coach and lifeguard. She volunteers in the health sectoPatricia Sykes is a poet and librettist. Her collaborations with composer Liza lim have been performed nationally and internationally. A podcast, The Abbotsford Mysteries Song Cycle by Andrew Aronowicz, based on her collection, The Abbotsford Mysteries, is now available in podcast.Angela Costi is the author of five collections of poetry, including Honey & Salt (Five Islands Press, shortlisted for Mary Gilmore Prize 2008) and An Embroidery of Old Maps and New (Spinifex Press, awarded The Book Prize for Poetry in English 2022 by the Greek Australian Cultural League); together with nine produced plays/performance-text. She was writer-in-residence at the former Kensington Public Housing Estate on the 'Relocated' arts project, which received the LGA national award for community innovation, 2002. She received the High Commendation for Contribution to Arts and Culture, Merri-bek Award 2021. She is known as Αγγελικη Κωστη among the Cypriot-Greek diaspora, her heritage.Marion May Campbell’s recent works include the poetry collections languish (Upswell 2022) and third body (Whitmore Press 2018), and the memoir of her father The Man on the Mantelpiece (UWAP 2018). Part 1 of this two-part interview featuring Pauline Hopkins and Sandy Jeffs is available here: https://www.3cr.org.au/spoken-word/episode/its-all-connected-part-1-pauline-hopkins-and-sandy-jeffs The anthology, It's All Connected. Feminist Fiction and Poetry, is available from Spinifex Press: www.spinifexpress.com.au/shop/p/9781925950564(link is external) Produced & Presented by Tina Giannoukos

In Part 1 of this interview, Editor Pauline Hopkins and poet Sandy Jeffs talk about the Spinifex Press anthology, "It's All Connected.  Feminist Fiction and Poetry".In Part 2 of this interview, poets Patricia Sykes, Angela Costi and Marion May Campbell talk about their works in the anthology along with editor Pauline Hopkins.Pauline Hopkins is an editor at Spinifex Press and a bookseller. She majored in psychology at university and completed further studies in English and Professional Writing and Editing. She has worked in local government, as a speechwriter and media adviser in state government. She is an avid swimmer, has been a swim teacher, swim coach and lifeguard. She volunteers in the health sector.Sandy Jeffs was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1976 when it was considered something from which you could not recover. In the 1980s, she was among the first wave of people who started speaking publicly about living with a mental illness. Much of her writing has been about her struggle with schizophrenia. Sandy has published eight volumes of poetry and a memoir, Flying with Paper Wings: Reflections on Living with Madness. Sandy co-authored with Margaret Leggatt, Out of the Madhouse: From Asylums to Caring Community? which won the oral history prize at the 2020 Victorian Community History Awards. Her most recent book is The Poetics of a Plague: A Haiku Diary, about the 2020-21 pandemic.The anthology, It's All Connected. Feminist Fiction and Poetry, is available from Spinifex Press: www.spinifexpress.com.au/shop/p/9781925950564 Produced & Presented by Tina Giannoukos

In this episode, Pauline Sherlock is in conversation with Waffle Irongirl.Pauline Sherlock is a performer of Stand-up comedy, musical comedy, Butoh, Singing, Acting. In this interview, Pauline shares her expansive world of performance, bringing multiple of her characters to the radio.

Di Cousens reads at the Cherry Tree Poets. Recorded by Brendan Bonsack in 2022.

Antonia Poet practices poetry, philosophy and yoga. She is also Associate Professor Writing, Literature & Culture Group, at Deakin University. Her debut poetry collection, You Will Not Know In Advance What You'll Feel (2019), is published by Rabbit Journal in its Rabbit Poets Series. She is also the author of A Philosophy of Practising with Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition (2021) through Edinburgh University Press. In 2009, she founded Vijnana Yoga Australia.Her debut poetry collection, You Will Not Know In Advance What You'll Feel, is available online through Rabbit Journal: https://rabbitpoetry.com/.../pont-you-will-not-know-in...You can also purchase or order her poetry collection from Brunswick Bound bookshop, 361 Sydney Road, Brunswick: http://www.brunswickbound.com.au/ Picture: Yaro Bril Produced & Presented by Tina Giannoukos

In this episode of Spoken Word, we play poetry by:Ibtisam ShahbazRichard MudfordLea RunasSteven AtkinsonRebecca Louise ClarkePanda Wong