Spoken Word

Interview with Benjamin Solah about great website and CD launched recently by Melbourne Spoken Word peter davis presenter also thanks kind people who gave money to allow Spoken Word 3Cr to surpass its target for Radiothon

Australian poet, Judith Rodriguez, has been teaching poetry at universities internationally and at the Council of Adult Education for fifty years. She brings to this program a global knowledge of poetic forms and history. This is Part 1 of a three part series.

Yvette Stubbs is convenor of Cafe Arts in Warragul.She's published many poems and is known for great humour and lively poetry readings.---Yvette is described as the infamous mad woman of cloverlea who is one of the matriarchs of the poetry scene. She shepherds sheep, vascilates over vegies, and feasts on fajoas. At night she sits under a daya dah tree and surveys the domed sky, patting her half eared stray grey whilst contemplating nothing at all.Yvette and Jillian Durance have co-authored a book of poetry "The Naked and The Clothed" ...http://www.coalcreekliteraryfestival.com/Authors.html

Join Ela Fornalska and her guest Myron Lysenko for a special haiku focused programme. Ela and Myron discuss the appeal of haiku, talk about ‘rules’ and techniques and question whether writing haiku can make the world a better place. Listeners will also hear haiku of the original masters and some of Myron Lysenko’s original haiku and senryu. Musical experts by Leszek Możdżer (Tracks ‘Ex Ego’ and ‘Incognitor’) To find out about ‘Ginko’ that Myron seasonally runs, follow the click: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ginko-With-Lysenko/156663058472?fref=ts

Scizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and anxiety are conditions that this weeks poets on Spoken Word live with and write about.Sound effects and music mixed in by Peter D.  http://www.daxcentre.org/collection/poetry-collection/

Once again, The Rhonda Jankovic Competition for Poetry on a Social Justice Theme has been held, with 166 entries from across Australia. Kevin Brophy, well known poet and academic, was this year's judge, and the quality of the poetry was very high. In this broadcast can be heard almost all of the prizewinning entries, as well as the voice of Rhonda herself reading one of her own poems.

http://melbournespokenword.com/the-last-word-with-matt-hetherington/http://tincture-journal.com/2015/02/28/matt-hetherington-interviewed-by-stuart-barnes/Matt Hetherington is a writer, music-maker, gourmet Indian chef, soccer nut, bludger, and lover based in Brisbane. His first collection of all-Japanese-related forms (and fourth poetry collection) is For Instance, published by Mulla Mulla Press.

Kevin was born in Caulfield, Melbourne in 1946, and grew up on the working class side of the Racecourse. He has survived fire, lightning and gunshots, the last whilst head gardener at Koonunga Golf Course. He has been a steel tier in the building industry, once established a crosswords company and has worked in printing and as a publisher. He has also been an art critic, journalist, editor and anthologist. He returned to his ‘grey city’ of Melbourne after eighteen years away, including in the South Pacific and Adelaide. In late 1994 he founded Black Pepper with Gail Hannah. He has published six collections of poetry including two featuring his existentially dubious hero The Apparition. He is working on a new collection The Compleat Apparition.http://blackpepperpublishing.com/pearson.html

Sandy Jeffs on 3CR Spoken Word reading poems and in conversation with producer Ela FornalskaSandy Jeffs Biography Sandy Jeffs was born in Ballarat and has a BA from La Trobe University. She has lived with schizophrenia and all its moods for over thirty years. She is a community educator who speaks to schools, universities and community groups about what it’s like to live with a mental illness. She has been published widely and is a prize-winning poet whose writing has been concerned with madness, domestic violence and the humorous antics of women who play midweek ladies’ tennis. Sandy lives with her friends and animals on the outskirts of Melbourne.She is the author of the bestselling Poems from the Madhouse (1993; reprinted 2000, 2001), Loose Kangaroos (co-author, 1998), Blood Relations (2000), Confessions of a Midweek Lady: Tall Tennis Tales (2001), and The Wings of Angels: A memoir of madness (2004).  Her latest book is her autobiography, Flying with Paper Wings: Reflections on Living With Madness (2009).

3CR Spoken word goes to Carlton and records live poetry at LaMama Poetica.MC of this event is Amanda Anastasi and she reads a poem.Then two feature sets by Jennifer Compton and David Stavenger.http://redroomcompany.org/poet/jennifer-compton/http://redroomcompany.org/poet/david-stavanger/This edition of Spoken Word 3CR concludes with a poem called Gallipoli by Rowan White, a peace-activism inspired poem that provides an alternatuive to glorification of war.  Producer for this edition : Peter Davis