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.

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.  We are finishing this season strong with our final two events of the season. 

On October 21st we’ll host our usual 3 round Poetry Slam and experience a feature set by Poet, Haneen, @haneen.ao

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.

It’s time for some cross pollination, fam.

On May 21, we welcome Singapore Slam Champ, Shivram Gopinath to the Slama stage to help him release his debut poetry collection, Dey.

Shivram will be touring Australia alongside four Singaporean Writers who we look forward to welcoming to our community.

We are back on our beloved premiere stage at the Brunswick Ballroom. Slama is a space where we celebrate intersectional community and encourage Artists to bring their absolute best work to the stage. On April 23rd, after a hugely successful return to the stage in March, we celebrate a much beloved regular to Slama, who has shown up continuously with gusto and grit - leaving us with a feeling of always wanting to hear more.

We are back on our beloved premiere stage at the Brunswick Ballroom.mSlama is a space where we celebrate intersectional community and encourage Artists to bring their absolute best work to the stage. On March 19th, after some many needed months of rest and recalibration, we celebrate the return of our beloved Melbourne Poet Tariro Mavondo

That's right poet, Wordcraft is turning 3! As our birthday tradition (cause after three years, its a tradition, right?) we are hosting our birthday poetry slam. This month, we're featuring our Wordcraft regular: Shyaire Ganglani!

Get ready for youth on fire! It's a Spoken Word Poetry showdown down under between lyrical champions from New Zealand and Australia.

Slam-O-Vision is a global competition that brings cities from around the world together online to celebrate poetry. This event will be your chance to vote for Melbourne's entrant, who will compete on the world stage. Each piece will be captured on video by Vibe Union, ready to show the world what Melbourne poetry is all about.