Spoken Word

In this episode of 3CR's Spoken Word show aired on Thursday 17th October, you will hear Vasilka Pateras talk about ideas of home, the intricacies of language and the experience of being a migrant daughter.Vasilka Pateras lives in Naarm/Melbourne, and is an Australian-Macedonian writer whose poetry, reviews and articles have been published both nationally and internationally including Cordite, Mascara Literary Review, and Hecate. She has co-authored Thread - a chapbook of poems (self-published 2021).Poems written and performed by Vasilka Pateras in this episode:PrazninaOn the shoulders of grandmothersGoot Tranink NoteSpoken word and poetry come from the heart and touch on all the topics peculiar to the human condition. As such there may be content in this show that could cause distress. Please practice self-care when listening and seek help if you need it. CreditsRecorded and prodcued by Indrani Perera.Thank you to Vasilka Pateras for sharing her poetry and to you for listening!

This is the second interview with Jeanine Leane about her book of poetry, Gawimarra Gathering.

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. Sandy co-authored with Margaret Leggatt, Out of the Madhouse: From Asylums to Caring Community?, published in 2020. In 2021, her musings on the pandemic were published in The Poetics of a Plague: A Haiku Diary. Sandy’s memoir Flying with Paper Wings: Reflections on Living with Madness was republished in March 2024 by Spinifex Press. Her memoir, Flying With Paper Wings: Reflections on Living with Madness, is available here: https://www.spinifexpress.com.au/shop/p/9781925950946  Produced & Presented by Tina Giannoukos

In this episode of 3CR's Spoken Word show aired on Thursday 19 September 2024, you will hear an interview with poet and spoken word artist, Jude Chrisan.Jude Chrisan is a boy learning how to be alive. He’s a passionate connecter, poet, and professional cry baby. Most importantly of all, Jude is a searcher for the beauty in the pain, in the mundane; he’s searching for the green in the grey. He’s also a huge fan of hugs!Poems written and performed by Jude Chrisan in this episode:The TradesmanReflectionsJust Being NiceSequoia NoteSpoken word and poetry come from the heart and touch on all the topics peculiar to the human condition. As such there may be content in this show that could cause distress. Please practice self-care when listening and seek help if you need it. CreditsRecorded and produced by Indrani Perera.Thank you to Jude for sharing his poetry and to you for listening!

This episode of 3CR Spoken Word is an interview with Laura Fisher and Eddy Burger. They talk about absurdist poetry, collaboration, and Laura's play "Why Not Believe In Everything".Laura Fisher is an energetic poet, and performer who is well known on the Melbourne Spoken word scene for convening Radio Laria Poetry and MCing Girls on Key.  Through both these poetry nights, Laura has been a keen advocate and promoter for women poets.  She has been the feature poet for various Melbourne spoken word gigs and at Dramatis Personae she was even known to channel the ghost of Emily Bronte. Eddy Burger is a writer of funny and experimental poetry, fiction, and plays. His work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies as well chapbooks by the MPU and Small Change Press and in his own self-published zines. Eddy is an anti-realist, literary radical and champion of the imagination, often concerned with challenging norms and promoting difference.

This is the first interview with Jeanine Leane about her book of poetry, Gawimarra Gathering.

A live recording of selected performances from Rochford Street Review's launch of their print magazine P76 Issue.9 (Sonic Edition). Performed at the Bergy Bandroom in Brunswick as part of the Sonic Poetry Festival 2024.Includes readings by:Jeanine Leane (After the Silence the Echo)Alex Skovron (Trigger Logic)Nadia Niaz (Motia, Djinn Hunter)Alison J. Barton (One Hand, Buried Light)Peter Bakowski (On Suvarov Atoll)Amanda Anastasi (The Missing)Ali Alizadeh (Murrumbeena)To learn more about the issue and purchase a copy:https://rochford-pressbookshop.square.site/product/p76-no-9-poetries-of-place-displacement-diaspora-odyssey

Alicia Sometimes is a poet and broadcaster passionate about art and science. She has performed her poetry at many venues, festivals and events around the world. Her poems have been in Best Australian Science Writing, Best Australian Poems, Meanjin, Westerly and many more. Alicia is director/co-writer of the art/science planetarium shows, Elemental and Particle/Wave. In 2023 she received ANAT’s Synapse Artist Residency and co-created an art installation for Science Gallery Melbourne’s exhibition, Dark Matters. Her new poetry book, Stellar Atmospheres, is out via Cordite Books. She is passionate about art-science projects.www.aliciasometimes.com Producer & Presenter: Tina Giannoukos

Waffle Irongirl interviews Nadia Rhook.  Nadia is a non-Indigenous historian, poet, and educator, and the author of two history-themed poetry collections: boots (UWA Publishing) and Second Fleet Baby (Fremantle Press).

In this episode of 3CR's Spoken Word show aired on Thursday 8 August 2024, you will hear Alison J Barton talk about her forthcoming debut poetry collection, Not Telling, colonisation, German missionaries and psychoanalytic theory.Alison J Barton is a Wiradjuri poet whose work appears in Australian and international journals and anthologies such as Meanjin, Cordite, Westerly, Mascara Literary Review, Australian Poetry Journal, Blackbox Manifold and many more. In 2023, she was the inaugural winner of the University of Cambridge First Nations Writer-in-Residence Fellowships. She has been the recipient of several fellowships with Varuna House and the winner of a number of international writing residencies. Alison’s poetry appeared in the Best of Australian Poems 2022 and 2023, and has been recognised in numerous prizes. She appeared in podcasts for The Guilty Feminist and Poetry Says. Her first full-length collection of poetry, Not Telling, will be out with Puncher & Wattmann next month. Poems written and performed by Alison J Barton in this episode:Buried LightBirth DressDreams for the MillSeasonsTinctureFeather Dress NoteThis recording has a trigger warning for colonisation, death and grief. CreditsRecorded and produced by Indrani Perera.Thank you to Alison J Barton for sharing her poetry and to you for listening!