Yarra Valley Spoken Word - Friday 14th November 2025
Please join us in welcoming a new Feature Poet into our community in November!
Russell Boyle lives in Balwyn North, Melbourne and was on our mailing list but requested to unsubscribe. I politely asked him his reason and he stated that as he is retired he only attends free spoken word events. I let him know that our evening is now by donation only and accessible to all and he replied thanks… I then clicked on his link to his poetry and saw how prolific he is and I really loved his poem House by the Sea. I asked him if he’d be interested in being a Feature Poet and the team agreed he’d be great and so here we are!
Kismet! Synchronicity! Co-inside-ences! Fate! Magic! Faerie…
Russell Boyle Bio:
Russell Boyle started writing poetry in 1999. He has written five anthologies, each one published as a PDF, that can be purchased online using secure PayPal checkout and supplied by email. Some poems in his first three volumes have adult themes and contain sexual language. His published oeuvre comprises 205 poems. He recently retired from his much-loved lifetime career in secondary mathematics. Since then, his primary focus has been poetry, performing at more than one hundred and forty open-mic events around Melbourne. His preference is to recite, rather than read his poems, as this better enables him to connect with the audience. What he loves most about poetry is the ability to convey powerful, emotional themes with just a few words.
House by the Sea
https://russellboyle.com/housebythesea.mp3
Please note the new start time of 6.15pm for the Poetry Workshop.
Due to the growing popularity of our event we are recommending you arrive in time for the increasingly valuable workshop, and as it is first in best dressed for Open Mic 8 till 9pm, latecomers may miss out on performing...
To ensure as many people as possible are able to share, we are requesting a short 3 minutes maximum open-mic per person. That's then about 20 people that get to share... and you can continue to share afterwards over chai.
Spoken Word is an inclusive project.
Entry and Supper is by donation, we never turn people away!
Suggested Donation:
$15 Full / $10 Concession
$5 Supper, $5 Chai
Program
6pm - Doors open/Music
6.15 - Poetry workshop & open mic
7.00 - Dinner
7.30 - Feature poet (12yrs+)
8.00 - Open mic
9.00 - Chai & Chat
Call Andy: 0415 734 744 or Chris: 0414 306 772
or search Yarra Valley Spoken Word on Facebook or Yarra Valley ECOSS website.
And just a heads up; our December event will be on the first Friday, 5th December, due to the fabulous Ecotopia Summer Twilight Market being on the 12th!
That way we get to do both...
COST: Entry and Supper is now by donation, we never turn people away!
Suggested Donation: $15 Full / $10 Concession / $5 Supper, $5 Chai