PoetiCas has been hosting regular poetry gatherings in Castlemaine since 2015. Our monthly events have become a cherished part of the community. Regular monthly gatherings include a featured poet and an open mic segtion, which you register your interest on arrival.

Our guest reader for September is Nathan Curnow

Assorted Sporks is a free queer friendly regular poetry and performance night at Mamma Chen's on Thursday September 25th

Featuring: Jesse Echo
Theme: Caterpillar/Moth.
Think; Metamorphosis, Think; Growth, Think; Non-traditional beauty, Think; Unfairly maligned, Think; Beautiful pests.

Themes are not mandatory, they are just to encourage you to experiment with your writing and improvisation. Feel free to make it weird.

Join us for the next Platform Poets with feature guest Mick Mezza at Platform 3095 💕💕

Feature: HORROR MONSTER MAYHEM!

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 our special guest Enda Coyle-Greene. Online only.

Zoom link posted on https://www.facebook.com/ross.donlon.58 by Thursday prior.

Hello! You are invited to join us for the 7th edition of Bad Flâneur on the 18th of September. We are excited to host such a wonderful & impressive cast of readers! Please join us upstairs at Bar Open to hear the work of:

~ π.O.~ Kat Capel ~ Holly Friedlander Liddicoat ~ Melinda Bufton ~ Robert Skinner

Our Poetry and Spoken Word events are held on the second Saturday of the month at 3 p.m., with a Poetry Writing Workshop running from 2 to 3.

***Please take note of the new venue: Vespertine Gardens, 6 Cadle Street, Dandenong 3175 Vic.

Do be in touch with Anke should the weather report indicate rain, etc.

Our feature this September is Gerard Lewis-Fitzgerald

‘Two authors, two poetic forms, a necklace of free association: this is an innovative concept for a new collection of poems in which two people’s memories correspond and bounce off one another, poem by poem, so that the whole becomes a richly imagined chain of response.’
-Sarah Day

Chamber Poets #114 - Ian Gostelow & Talon Gostelow

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..

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.

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.

Feature: Mandy Segal

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.

Feature: Amanda Anastasi

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.

After a two month hiatus, we’re back! This time with an exciting collaboration with the City of Literature’s Slamovision and a feature like peanut butter mac, interstellar banana split with a chocolate covered cherry on top!

Parth Rahatekar is a performance poet and writer from Pune, currently based in Naarm/Melbourne. Their practice is focused on conjuring vivid, pluralistic evocations and imagery that extend beyond systems of violence, trauma and identity.

Feature: Rebecca Louise-Clarke is a poet, essayist and artist. Her work has been published in the form of 2 books, journal articles, digital stories and exhibitions.

NOTE: Feature will start at 2PM SHARP

Open mic as well.

Poetry from Agitation Hill, on Djaara Country, Castlemaine presents Claire Gaskin, Friday September 6th 6-7pm EST. Please join us for a night of great poetry exclusively via zoom courtesy Ross Gillett, across Australia.

Claire Gaskinwill read for 20 minutes, followed by the popular QnA, involving the on line audience, concluding with her encore.

Join us for a tall glass of red and escape the cold with a showcase of Melbourne poets reading their most recent works. Hosted by Tim Loveday. Kevin Brophy, Eloise Grills, Manisha Anjali

Poetry@Chrissy Hills

The Famous Open Mic

BYO poem, humour, food, drink to share

Featured Reader: Christine Crowle

Assorted Sporks is a queer friendly regular poetry and performance night at Mamma Chen's on the last Thursday of the month.

Featuring Loran Steinberg with Guest Host Kitten!

Theme: Conversations with Yourself

Themes are not mandatory, they are just to encourage you to experiment with your writing and improvisation.
Feel free to make it weird.

Join us for the next Platform Poets with feature guest Alicia Sometimes at Platform 3095 💕💕

Poetry/spoken word- world of poetry, a spoken world, words of worlds, worlds of words!

Poetryspective #133
Featuring Helen Jarvis plus Cath Edwards surprise poetry retrospective

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: Emilie Collyer

The usual format brings a featured reader to share their work, as well as an open section for the community to share their own original poems in a warm and supportive space, MC'd by a local poet and publisher . All are welcome to attend, to read or just to listen.

Feature: TBD

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

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!

Featuring: Cam James

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.

Feature: ANNE BAUMANIS

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

Brendan has kindly agreed to swap with Enda Coyle-Greene, ill with Covid. Enda will join us in mid September.

Please join us for a night of great poetry with our special guest. Online only. Zoom link posted on https://www.facebook.com/ross.donlon.58 by Thursday prior.

This July, Radio Laria invites you to join us with features Stephanie Powell and Leone Gabrielle for poetry that explores the rooted, the elevated and many things in between. Stephanie Powell is an award-winning poet whose most recent collection Invisible Wasp was brought out by Liquid Amber press in 2024. Leone Gabrielle is a poet, philosopher, and knitter with a growing fanbase in the Melbourne poetry community.

t's that time!!!! 

Featuring:
MRS K @mrs.k.poems
Roslyn Orlando @roslyn__orlando
Autumn Royal @temperate.season
Mwaffaq Al-Hajjar @mwaffa_lines

THURSDAY 14TH AUGUST, 6.30PM
@brunswickartistsbar

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.

Our Poetry and Spoken Word events are (usually) held on the second Saturday of the month at 3 p.m., with a Poetry Writing Workshop running from 2 pm to 3 pm for anyone interested.

The venue for Perc.U.lations is the wonderfully generous Kafé on Hemmings (86 Hemmings St), in Dandenong, about a 15-minute walk from either Dandenong or Yarraman train stations. There is also handy, free parking available behind the medical centre on the opposite corner.

Feature: Jason Wyatt with assistance from Gareth Bennett

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