Spoken Word

The live Radiothon show for 2022, with presenters, Brendan Bonsack and Es Foong.Featuring poetry Dominique Hecq, Tim Loveday, Kathryn Ross, and Phu-Linh Tran.

A live recording of Jennifer Compton, feature poet at Cherry Poets, The Cherry Tree Hotel, Cremorne. The event was held on 7th May 2022. Jennifer's eleventh book of poetry, the moment, taken, is available from Recent Works Press.

In this week's show we chat to poet Nicholas Powell about his new collection, Trap Landscape, soon to be launched in Melbourne. Powell is winner of the 2011 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. His latest work is described as "Word play and vernacular colliding to re-imagine language in a dreamscape".Also in the show we hear a poem by Andy Jackson, and part one of a live recording of Jennifer Compton at The Cherry Tree Hotel.

Di's poetry crosses a range of forms and is always evolving.

A few weeks ago we put a call out online for artists to contribute a poem or story on the theme of motherhood. Thank you to everyone who sent in their work!There were too many contributions to fit into one Spoken Word show, so it was split into two episodes. This second episode features readings by Amy Bodossian, Ela Fornalska, Simone King, Vasilka Pateras, Chae Paterson, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, PoetPre, Fotoula Reynolds and Lish Škec.Click here to listen to Episode 1.

Alex Skovron reads from and discusses his new book of poetry, Letters from the Periphery, with Di Cousens. Photo by Di Cousens.

Last week we put a call out online for artists to contribute a poem or story on the theme of motherhood. Thank you to everyone who sent in their work! There were too many contributions to fit into one Spoken Word show, so it's been split into two episodes.This first episode features readings by Astrid/Brownsugababe, Caddy Callaghan, Rebecca Louise Clarke, Jeltje Fanoy, Ela Fornalska, Allana Kelsall, Simone King, Caz Masal, Viki Mealings, Tim Train, and Jo Whitelaw.Click here to listen to Episode 2.

This show plays extracts from the CD, Voices, where German born, British composer Max Richter combines a spoken word rendition of parts of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with his own musical composition. Produced by Di Cousens.

This episode features performances by Claire Gaskin, Kim Jeffs, Blayke, Eleanor Jackson, Viki Mealings, Saint Jorge, Thabani Tshuma and Fleassy Malay. With music by Claire Cross, Juliet Vrakas, Rachel Dease and Monique DiMattina.

Poet and publisher Susan Hawthorne reflects on her life in poetry and Spinifex Publishing. This is part two of two programs.