PoetiCas has been hosting regular poetry gatherings in Castlemaine since 2015, following on the tradition of Ross Donlon's poetry readings in the decade prior. It has grown into a wonderful community and their monthly events are beloved by many.

Feature: Avalanche

In the grand tradition of Dan Poets, which became Cherry Poets . . . the Saturday afternoon pub poetry tradition rolls on with Stingo Poets. Every Saturday afternoon we welcome everyone to the Yorkshire Stingo Hotel to share their poems on the open mic and enjoy the day's feature. Sometimes there are comps!

Poetry@Chrissy Hills is a bi-monthly poetry reading on the 4th Thursday of the month, 7.30pm

There is a featured reader and the famous open mic. It's held at the Christmas Hills Mechanics' Institute Hall.

A monthly poetry gig @Platform 3095 in Eltham - every 4th Wednesday of the month at 7pm.

Food & drinks available to purchase. Open Mic.

Feature: Camp Therapy Fundraiser

What is Camp Therapy, you ask? Well it's definitely, absolutely, probably not a cult. Though you may have seen some very colourful people around lately wearing matching shirts and making hand signs that look just a little culty. Camp Therapy is a forthcoming feature film written and directed by our darling Saara Lamberg. In brief, CT is Australia's first trans-activist satire about a conversion therapy for straight people. Seriously very funny.

Sip & Share returns to Rahona on Friday 19 June, and this one is going to be special.

Our feature poet is Dr Melanie Jansen, a Brisbane-based intensive care physician whose poetry sits at the intersection of medicine, mortality, and the stubborn persistence of ordinary life. Her debut collection, All That Could Be Lost, has already won hearts and prizes. Hearing her read in person is something else entirely.

Dear Friends, please join us for a night of great poetry via zoom.

Featuring Liz Lefroy

Zoom link opening by 5.45 pm EST

Looking forward to seeing all our supporters from across Australia, and sometimes Europe, for these readings featuring a selection of fine Australian poets and special guests from the UK and Ireland.

Radio Laria is returning to challenge, energise and inspire you with features Panda Wong and Lisa McLean. Panda is poet and editor whose works explores solastalgia, ecological decline and entanglements (both human and non-human). Lisa is a resilient thinker whose metamorphosing writing confronts our contemporary reality. We also have a friendly open mic with ten spots. Tickets are $10 (full), $5 (concession) or you can pay extra to help support the poets and our venue Library Portal.

Assorted Sporks is a queer friendly regular poetry and performance night at Mamma Chen's, feature, theme and open mic.

Featuring; Yasi

Theme: The Good Ugly

Assorted Sporks alternates every two weeks with Musical Sporks.

Hello everyone, June 15 is Be Fearless Poetry night. And the feature performer is the wonderful Juniper Maffescioni.
Juniper has truly justified being the poet who accepted the final handover of the Passionate Tongues Candle on behalf of Bar Oussou Spoken Word back in 2024. Since then she has taken on co-hosting the iconic Tuesday night gig and has enraptured audiences with her poetic words.
There will also be open mic of course, as well as the famous hospitality of Red Betty. see you there!

In the Supper Room in the Willaimstown Town Hall, a brilliant line-up of local and interstate poets will share works that resonate with the festival theme of reflections. From lyrical meditations to rousing rhymes, interspersed with musical interludes, this will be an unforgettable evening of words and song.

Featuring Evelyn Araluen, Maxine Beneba Clarke and David Stavanger, alongside local favourites Thuy On, Helen Jarvis, Stephanie Powell and Susan Bradley-Smith. MC’ed by Amanda Anastasi.

Music: The Ricolas

Assorted Sporks is now offering a writing group!

Second Sunday of the Month!

Bring a Poem or work in progress that you would like feedback, or an ideas session with.Or participate in a free write session or a writing prompt and see what you get.

Poetica: The Explorations Edition is a celebration of poetry that pushes boundaries, experiments with form and creative disciplines, and seeds bold and expansive ideas with a focus on poetry and the spoken word. We are proud to present Alex Creece, author of the award-winning ‘Potty Mouth, Potty Mouth’ and Sean O’Callaghan, who combines poetry and prose with abstraction, humour, and by tracing meaning in ordinary scenes. Helena Pantsis, author of ‘CAPTCHA’ and ‘Mother Salad’ will be sharing her dark, peculiar poetry, and Iranian-Australian Yaru will perform a hybrid of emotionally engaging poetry and music.

Welcome to our second event in our new home in the Dandenong Library. There is both free and paid parking around the library, and the Dandenong Train Station is quite close as well.

Our Poetry and Spoken Word events will be held there on the second Saturday of each month from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm.

If you'd like to attend the poetry workshop beforehand, I'll be holding it in the library to avoid the winter weather. The workshop will start at 1pm and last until 2 pm. At that point, I'll be setting up the event space on the library's ground floor.

Do consider wandering past The Nong Cafe for a quick bite or a takeaway coffee! There are other great food and drink venues around as well.

Feature: Tim Evans

In the grand tradition of Dan Poets, which became Cherry Poets . . . the Saturday afternoon pub poetry tradition rolls on with Stingo Poets. Every Saturday afternoon we welcome everyone to the Yorkshire Stingo Hotel to share their poems on the open mic and enjoy the day's feature. Sometimes there are comps!

Chamber Poets - second Saturday of each month at Woodend RSL.

This month featuring Peter Rose.

With a hearty open section, great original live music from Black Forest Smoke and good value RSL food and drinks. 1pm for a 1.15pm start..

This in one of our bi-monthly events with a Feature Artist and 8 open mic spots. Mother Tongue is a place for Passionate, Powerful, Vulnerable and Honest performance; it stands aside from most Spoken Word events in its depth and authenticity.

Feature: Jesse Echo

Welcome to our Yarra Valley Spoken Word Community.

We meet at The Dreaming Space Academy at Yarra Valley ECOSS, Wesburn on the second Friday of the month and welcome you to join us and share your musings.

Please join us in welcoming a new Feature Poet to our monthly event. Some of you may have caught Nico's performance at ECOSS Valley Market recently. Nico is exploring the theme ‘The Silent World That Won’t Stop Talking’. Feel free to feel into that theme with him, or explore your own…

Feature: Gabrielle Everall

In the grand tradition of Dan Poets, which became Cherry Poets . . . the Saturday afternoon pub poetry tradition rolls on with Stingo Poets. Every Saturday afternoon we welcome everyone to the Yorkshire Stingo Hotel to share their poems on the open mic and enjoy the day's feature. Sometimes there are comps!

Please join us for a night of great poetry when Poetry from Agitation Hill presents our feature poet on Friday 6pm to 7pm.

This reading will take place in the chapel of the Uniting Church, Castlemaine, but will also be zoomed across Australia and into the DigiWorld.

Spoken Word event with Special Guest readers, join us for a beautiful warm evening and revitalise with an intimate, introspective and healing night.

Headless Poetry, on at Red Betty, the first Monday of the month, Arrive at 7:30 for an 8:00pm start. Bring your friends and enemies.

Featuring @nataliesqrl
@jup1terjune
@keithyjoel
&
@jayekranz

Tariro and Faarah have curated a night of poetry, live music, culture, storytelling & connection this Saturday 30 May at T.R.O.U Shop 25, 47 Paisley Street in Footscray.

It will be an intimate experience exploring identity, culture, love, community, displacement, joy and lived experience, delivered by some of Naarm’s most powerful Black voices and emerging creative talent.

Feature: Katie Lohner

Poetry at the Stingo + Open Mic

In the grand tradition of Dan Poets, which became Cherry Poets . . . the Saturday afternoon pub poetry tradition rolls on with Stingo Poets. Every Saturday afternoon we welcome everyone to the Yorkshire Stingo Hotel to share their poems on the open mic and enjoy the day's feature. Sometimes there are comps!

Join your hosts David & Zarah for an evening of prose & poetry.

Autumn Royal, Miriam Webster, Jennifer Compton, Andrew Pascoe & Ouyang Yu.

A monthly poetry gig @Platform 3095 in Eltham - every 4th Wednesday of the month at 7pm.

Food & drinks available to purchase. Open Mic.

Curated by Rachael Guy, Ann DeHugard, Rob Wallis and Andy Jackson, the Keepsake collection explores the notions of memory, identity, and the impulse to hold on to what time will erase. This Saturday at PoetiCas, sixteen local poets will read their contribution from  the collection.

Feature: Eddy Burger

In the grand tradition of Dan Poets, which became Cherry Poets . . . the Saturday afternoon pub poetry tradition rolls on with Stingo Poets. Every Saturday afternoon we welcome everyone to the Yorkshire Stingo Hotel to share their poems on the open mic and enjoy the day's feature. Sometimes there are comps!

Join us for a tall glass of plonk and escape the winter blues with a showcase of celebrated poets reading their most recent works. From stanza to slam to sonnet, you’ll be transported through the rambunctious and politically charged world of contemporary Australian poetry. Hosted by Tim Loveday.

Radio Laria is a community collective that runs monthly events where poets, writers and storytellers can gather to share their expressions.  Originally part of Girls on Key, Radio Laria prioritises featuring women and women-identifying poets, so as to create much needed opportunities.  We are always actively seeking to feature poets who may not have received the recognition that they deserve. We also enjoy featuring storytellers or performance artists whose creativity gets overlooked by the mainstream entertainment avenues.

Assorted Sporks is a queer friendly regular poetry and performance night at Mamma Chen's, feature, theme and open mic.

Assorted Sporks alternates every two weeks with Musical Sporks.