Please join us for a night of great poetry with our special guest CJ Bowerbird. Online only.

Contact rossdonlonviking @ gmail.com for the zoom link the day prior, or join the newsletter.

Musical Sporks Is a upcoming regular poetry gig where you have the option of performing your poetry to music, there will be a set menu of five tracks made by George O’Hara (aka Fluxofhumour) each with a mood or energy, Angry, Horny, Sad, Atmospheric, and Beats, the tracks will occasionally change as will the moods as we get a feel for what people want.

Join us for the next Platform Poets with Xmas Open Mic

Assorted Sporks is now offering a writing group!

Second Sunday of the Month! Tickets are $20 or whatever you can afford.

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.

Feature: TBD

Open mic? You know it. Sign up from 1.30pm, show kicks off at 2pm.

Our Poetry and Spoken Word events are held on the second Saturday of the month AT A NEW TIME 1 p.m., with a Poetry Writing Workshop running from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.

Please also note the location: Vespertine Gardens at 6 Cadle St, Dandenong, 3175. This location is weather-dependent, so check your emails / the Facebook event and so on, closer to the day and if it looks like it might rain significantly.

Our feature this December is Steve Atkinson.
We will be his first opportunity to feature, which is exciting.

Chamber Poets #117 - PiO

With a hearty open section, great original live music from Black Forest Smoke and good value RSL food and drinks. 1pm for a 115pm start..

Café Philosophique runs the 2nd Wednesday of the month at the Bridge Hotel in Werribee, exploring the hidden forces that shape our lives through music, poetry and conversation.

Theme: The Past

Feature: Amanda Anastasi

It's Bad Flaneur's one year anniversary !! If u aren’t going to Meredith on December 6th, come celebrate with us instead! readings 7-9pm ~ live music 9-11pm ~ special prizes for melbourne poetry trivia ~ Bar Open upstairs

Feature: TBD

Open mic? You know it. Sign up from 1.30pm, show kicks off at 2pm.

Please join us for a night of great poetry with Stu Hatton and Oz Hardwick 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.

Join us in wrapping up a wonderful year of words with the people that brought it to you - The Yarra Valley Spoken Word Team!

Our monthly night of words and wonder has been going for 3 years now and we will reflect upon this time of change, expansion and growth, both in size and capability, with gratitude!

Headless Poetry, on at Red Betty, the first Monday of the month, at 7:00 pm for a 7:30 start. Happy hour begins at 6

Kit Baker / Violet Harrison / Gavi Dessert & Judith

Feature: TBD

Open mic? You know it. Sign up from 1.30pm, show kicks off at 2pm.

Poetry reading with International poet Oz Hardwick and guests Andy Jackson, Dominique Hecq and Cassandra Atherton

Join us for the next Platform Poets with feature guest Michael Reynolds at Platform 3095 💕💕

First half of the evening will be the open mic.

Second half of the evening will be an informal brain storm and chat about a Platform Poets anthology and how this would work and take shape. Xmas Raffle.

Award-winning cabaret icon Amy Bodossian invites you into her bedroom for a night of comedy, music, poetry, storytelling…and the kind of honesty you only share in bed. Supported by City of Melbourne.

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: TBD

Open mic? You know it. Sign up from 1.30pm, show kicks off at 2pm.

Award-winning cabaret icon Amy Bodossian invites you into her bedroom for a night of comedy, music, poetry, storytelling…and the kind of honesty you only share in bed. Supported by City of Melbourne.

Please join us for a night of great poetry with our special guest Morgan Yasbincek. Online only.

Contact rossdonlonviking @ gmail.com for the zoom link the day prior, or join the newsletter.

Award-winning cabaret icon Amy Bodossian invites you into her bedroom for a night of comedy, music, poetry, storytelling…and the kind of honesty you only share in bed. Supported by City of Melbourne.

Award-winning cabaret icon Amy Bodossian invites you into her bedroom for a night of comedy, music, poetry, storytelling…and the kind of honesty you only share in bed. Supported by City of Melbourne.

Award-winning cabaret icon Amy Bodossian invites you into her bedroom for a night of comedy, music, poetry, storytelling…and the kind of honesty you only share in bed. Supported by City of Melbourne.

Since 2011, Slama has been a space where spoken word Poets celebrate intersectional community and encourage each other to bring their absolute best work to the stage.

It’s our final event of 2025! Bring on a new season of Slama which starts in January 2026.

On November 18th we return to our 3 round Poetry Slam and get treated to a musical and poetic feature set by YARU.

The 2025 Woorilla Poetry Prize has broken all records and attracted quality entries from across Australia and the World.

The judges, Andy Jackson and Gayelene Carbis, have created their short lists and decided on the winning entries, which will be announced at the event. Over 900 poems have been painfully whittled down to a few for the shortlist, and this is where you'll hear about them.

Blessed we are indeed to have the wonderful Robbie Coburn as our feature this week. Robbie has been on the poetry scene for almost half his life - his first published poem appeared in ‘Unusual Work’ when he was 17 years old and he is currently 31. Pretty amazing. He has been published in oodles of journals and is the author of six books and two chapbooks, including the recent verse novel ‘The Foal in the Wire’ (Hachette 2025).

With an all-star line-up of poets including Evelyn Araluen, Andy Jackson, Toby Fitch and Ender Başkan, along with poetry and music collaboration Panda Wong and Hannah Wu of Lotus Threads, Big Verse promises to transport you through the rambunctious and politically charged world of contemporary Australian poetry.