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Australian Poetry Slam - July 2022

Featuring local spoken word artists competing for a place at the Melbourne final of the Australian Poetry Slam, and from there potentially securing a spot at the national final held in Sydney.

This event was held in partnership with Word Travels and hosted by local poet and 2020 Australian Poetry Slam champion Ren Alessandra.

Australian Poetry Slam 2022 heat: Fitzroy Library.

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Logan

I slip into an alleyway (a shortcut to my house) and halfway down something flashes in the bloom of a streetlight: wings.

After catching a late-night session of Logan at the Classic cinema in Elsternwick, I start walking home, listening to the credits song on Spotify, relishing the fact that the director had chosen 'When the Man Comes Around', my favourite Johnny Cash tune to end a movie that was so much about personal annihilation.

I slip into an alleyway (a shortcut to my house) and halfway down something flashes in the bloom of a streetlight: wings. I stop. A lone bat traces a jagged line across the treetops until it disappears behind the factory themed apartment block I always mistake for an actual factory even though Elsternwick is clearly a gentrified neighbourhood.

After Johnny finishes croaking in my ears I press replay and continue on my journey home, thinking about how this is my favourite kind of night: the End of the World.

- 12 March 2017

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