Featuring: Paul Whitby South

Open Mic? Yes! 1.30pm open mic sign up with 2pm kick off? Yes Yes. Drinks and food? It's a pub, rest assured all things possible and lovely.

Poetry from Agitation Hill welcomes Petra White, zooming to us from outside London. Join us for a night of great poetry on Friday December 20th 6-7pm EST. Petra will read for 20 minutes followed by the popular QnA involving the on line audience concluding with her encore.

A fortnightly open showcase of spoken word, poetry & all other language arts. Hosted at Creatures of Habit, Fitzroy.

Smooth talkers, slick walkers, gather round for a night of linguistic subtlety and sultry word play. Vibe Union presents: Chaotic Musings; with the guidance of poet & MC Jason Voss, we'll be talking a journey through words and experiences. Whether you’re a rapper, poet, spoken word enthusiast who put words to the page but never performed, this stage is for you. All skill levels are welcome and encouraged!

Join us for the next Platform Poets with feature guest Hamish Danks Brown at Platform 3095 💕💕

Hosted by MC Danksta Downunder, the format is OPEN MIC for all to join!

No-one knows what will happen on the night! All languages are welcome here. 100% survival rate for first-time performers guaranteed. Spoken Word @ Bar Oussou has a long history within the Melbourne poetry scene - come and join in every Tuesday

To The Ends of the 'Verse is a casual poetry night for people to share their works or the works of others. Sharing very new or rough drafts is certainly encouraged and no prior poetry experience is required. Our band, O'Stanger-Tang! offer up freestyle jams and improvised vocals, this night is very welcoming and wholesome 🙂. See listing details for open mic signup.

St Kilda's weekly poetry & spoken word open mic, hosted by Danksta Downunder, in Claypots seafood restaurant @ 213 Barkly Street. Bar snacks & drinks available to whet your appetite for words that may or may not rhyme, let alone make sense &/or nonsense!

Tucked in behind Sydney Road in Houdini Lane is Brunswick's best hidden secret... Red Betty. and the third Monday of each month is a poetry open mic where poets can Be Fearless!

This will be where poetry will be explored as an art form. Any kind of poetry is welcome, including the experimental and surreal. Musicians, hip hop artists, anyone who is willing to push poetic boundaries. It's all about enjoying art in a fun, safe, supportive space. Where you can perform that piece you thought you never would. Where you can Be Fearless.

Pizzaboxpoets at Palling Bros. Always the third Sunday of the month. Get your name on the pizzabox at 3.30 for a 4pm start. Original poetry by original poets. New readers and audience always welcome. Hint: Mark yourself "Going" on their Facebook Page to get updates.

This last month of the year we are featuring Mary Williamson, another Perc.U.lations regular!

Not only has Mary bottle-raised a mountain lion, crewed on a tall ship and been licked by an echidna, but she has raised three children (and they all survived)!

Mary came late to sharing spoken word creations although she credits her love of the Stories of Things to her father and the deeply abiding sense that she had a voice she needed to use.

Featuring: Jade Walsh

Open Mic? Yes! 1.30pm open mic sign up with 2pm kick off? Yes Yes. Drinks and food? It's a pub, rest assured all things possible and lovely.

A Christmas Cracker.... with a special secret surprise on the door for everyone who turns up. What better way to get your Christmas season celebrations underway than enjoying the wonderful RSL hospitality and a whole heap of original entertainment.

This in one of our bi-monthly events with a Teagan Webb 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.

Fellow Poetry Lovers, It’s December!

We are honoured to have local legend Malcolm Cormack as Feature Poet on Friday 13th December 2024.

Malcolm’s theme is:
45 YEARS IN YARRA JUNCTION

Poetry fam, join the lowercase trio at the beloved Medusa with the set theme to respond to ‘STATIC’. This is our last event of 2024.

Bring a wrapped book to join in our annual book swapping fun!

Join Izzy Roberts-Orr, author of ‘Raw Salt’, as she movingly explores contemporary elegy and lineages, alongside Manisha Anjali who invites us into the visions and awakenings of her Indo-Fijian ancestors from the sugar plantations of ‘Naag Mountain’. Peter Bakowski uncovers real and fictious characters through delightfully sharp portraiture, as he reads from his collection ‘Our Ways on Earth’. And enter the surreal, heart wrenching dreams and rural landscapes of Robbie Coburn’s ‘Ghost Poetry’.

Hosted by MC Danksta Downunder, the format is OPEN MIC for all to join!

No-one knows what will happen on the night! All languages are welcome here. 100% survival rate for first-time performers guaranteed. Spoken Word @ Bar Oussou has a long history within the Melbourne poetry scene - come and join in every Tuesday

St Kilda's weekly poetry & spoken word open mic, hosted by Danksta Downunder, in Claypots seafood restaurant @ 213 Barkly Street. Bar snacks & drinks available to whet your appetite for words that may or may not rhyme, let alone make sense &/or nonsense!

Come one, come all...our final Spoken Word event for 2024. Gold coin donation at the door. Lucky door prizes to be had! Don't miss out or you'll be sad!

The 7th annual Poetryspective RetroSlam is upon us. The slam where entrants recite poems by another poet who inspires them!

Celebrating worlds of words, bringing their favourite spoken word artists to the stage in this retrospective style recital challenge.
Who will win the Poetryspective Discotini and People’s Choice Award for 2024?

Plus our poetry feature Paul Mitchell will entertain and wow us all.

Featuring: Magan Magan

Open Mic? Yes! 1.30pm open mic sign up with 2pm kick off? Yes Yes. Drinks and food? It's a pub, rest assured all things possible and lovely.

Please join us for a night of great poetry with Tasmanian poet, Alicia Sometimes on Friday, November 1st 6-7pm EST Summer Time.

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

It is that time of month once again folks!! Where we settle in for the upcoming Mixed Bag Naarm (huzzahhhh!!)

This month we are lucky enough to have the incredible Skylar Klease as our feature act! (Who was also kind enough to put together this fabulous poster in my time of need).

Welcome to the Motley Openhaus! A space to let your heart bleed and words run. An inclusive, encouraging space for writers of all experiences to come up and read whatever they've been working on. Long form, short stories, haikus, spoken word, if you wanna say it, we wanna hear it! Every Wednesday evening, 7:30 start. Free entry

A fortnightly open showcase of spoken word, poetry & all other language arts. Hosted at Creatures of Habit, Fitzroy.

Smooth talkers, slick walkers, gather round for a night of linguistic subtlety and sultry word play. Vibe Union presents: Chaotic Musings; with the guidance of poet & MC Jason Voss, we'll be talking a journey through words and experiences. Whether you’re a rapper, poet, spoken word enthusiast who put words to the page but never performed, this stage is for you. All skill levels are welcome and encouraged!

Hosted by MC Danksta Downunder, the format is OPEN MIC for all to join!

No-one knows what will happen on the night! All languages are welcome here. 100% survival rate for first-time performers guaranteed. Spoken Word @ Bar Oussou has a long history within the Melbourne poetry scene - come and join in every Tuesday

Yellow Shirt is the first posthumous publication
of poems by Judith Rodriguez, who died in 2018. During her last days in hospital she assembled this collection with the
purpose of creating a different kind of poetry book, illustrated with photos by Di Cousens. It will be launched by poet Robyn Rowland.

One Breath is the latest chapbook of poetry and photography by Di Cousens. It will be launched by poet Kevin Brophy.

St Kilda's weekly poetry & spoken word open mic, hosted by Danksta Downunder, in Claypots seafood restaurant @ 213 Barkly Street. Bar snacks & drinks available to whet your appetite for words that may or may not rhyme, let alone make sense &/or nonsense!

How did you first hear about Healthbased? Where were you? What were you doing? How did you get there? How did you leave? You can’t remember? Me either, but on the first Monday of every month, I find myself there. I don’t know how I come and don’t know how I go. On Monday 6 May, I’ll be there again. We all will, in time. 7PM for 7.30. 6-7 Happy Hour. At Red Betty. 🤍

Join us at the Taproom, Castlemaine for the launch of Stu Hatton’s new book, In the Not-too-distant Present.

Stu will be in conversation with poet Andy Jackson. There will be readings, plus a Q&A where the audience will be invited to ask questions and join the conversation.