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Painting in tongues poetry slam
28 January 2020
Boroondara Library Service
Boroondara Library Service
Poetryspective featuring Brendan Bonsack and Michael Reynolds
28 January 2020
Melbourne Spoken Word
Poetryspective is a fortnightly poetry and spoken word event celebrating world poetry.
Painting in Tongues Poetry Slam featuring Cheung-Ling Wong, Helen Walker...
28 January 2020
Melbourne Spoken Word
Join Boroondara Library Service’s for a night of colourful language at Hawthorn’s House of Letters (aka...
Queerspace and MSW present Doing Gender: old-school storytelling, new...
29 January 2020
Melbourne Spoken Word
Doing gender, not having it done to you!
Book Launch: Mark Tredinnick's A Gathered Distance
1 February 2020
Melbourne Spoken Word
Birdfish Books is delighted to announce this imminent release by the master poet Mark Tredinnick.
The P Word Sessions featuring Matt Hetherington and Amy Bodossian
2 February 2020
Melbourne Spoken Word
Welcome to The P Word Sessions!
Passionate Tongues featuring Matt Hetherington
4 February 2020
Melbourne Spoken Word
Hosted by ‘the patron-saint of Melbourne poetry,’ poet and photographer Michael Reynolds, what began as a...
Poetry Portal Film Night Launch featuring Emma Burrows
5 February 2020
Melbourne Spoken Word
Girls on Key and The Poetry Portal presents a curated showcase of poetic short films with live spoken word...
Perform Your Story in Poetry Masterclass with Koraly Dimitriadis
9 February 2020
Melbourne Spoken Word
Do you have a story to tell? Are you interested in telling that story through performance poetry?