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.
Word On The Street | Chinese Reading Month 2022
To celebrate Chinese Reading Month join us on a virtual poetry walk around Yarra with the Paper Cat Poets. This special edition of Word On The Street proudly features performances by Stephen Zhang, Xifeng Yedu and Mark Ma.
Word On The Street - Melbourne Spoken Word Poets | Fitzroy Writers Festival 2021
Take a walk 🚶♀️🚶♂️🚶 around Fitzroy with the words of a few of Melbourne's well loved spoken word poets. Word On The Street features special performances from Ren Alessandra, Thabani Tshuma and Scotty Wings 🎤
Series: Journaling 101
Learn how to journal with Yarra Libraries staff Todd, Nic and Lochie as they share some simple journaling techniques that will help you go from an empty book to a full journal, one entry at a time.
Review: Slow Down, You’re Here by Brannavan Gnanalingam
Slow Down, You’re Here, the seventh and latest novel by the Wellington writer and lawyer Brannavan Gnanalingam, is packed with the stuff of life. That stuff is mostly work — of parents, of people of colour and of marriage.
An Interview with Albert Wendt
A lot of people looked at the Pacific as an empty space without cultures and literature.
Shibboleth
Will, a Samoan man prone to bouts of obsessiveness, made a vow: today, this very Sunday, he’d remove himself from the internet.
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