| Sunday 3 August - Brisbane's longest running poetry event, SpeedPoets returns to The Alibi Room (720 Brunswick St. New Farm) from 2pm after a mid-year hiatus, bigger and bolder than ever with features from host of 4ZZZ's Literate Latte, Amy Clare and the enigmatic Brother Man Dude. As always there will be live sounds from Sheish Money, Brisbane's hottest Open Mic session, Zines and Give Aways. Entry is a gold coin donation. | ||
| SpeedPoets is a community of writers, engaging people with poetry in a very public forum - the Alibi Room, New Farm. It is a space for artists to meet, perform and establish networks within their local community. There is nothing that specifically defines SpeedPoets. It is what it is - a creative space where many of Brisbane's finest poets/spoken word artists experiment with words backed by the free form musical powerhouse Sheish Money. The gig is held on the first Sunday of the month and runs from March to November each year. Each month there is Open Mic, a feature poet and singer/songwriter, free poetry magazine and giveaways. The gig runs from 2pm to 5:30pm. | ||
| Check your preconceptions at the door and with that little bit of age and experience under your belt, you will find yourself lost between the sound and the reflection... There's nothing haute-couture here, just original pirate material with a caustic wit and a smart-mouthed sense of observation. We reflect a taste for the classy: That beautiful, peace-shattering cacophony, where the beer drinking, fag smoking, ps2 playing generation get loaded, in all their sick-stained, technicoloured glory! So enjoy the roughhouse edge, the straight-shootin' style, the lack of reason and rhyme and with magical effect, put yourself between the collision of reality and the word...
by Graham Nunn |
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