2012 WA Poetry Festival

This year I was lucky enough to be invited to be a guest poet at the 2012 WA Poetry Festival which begins this Friday 17th August 2012. The event is run by WA Poets Inc and this year was coordinated by my poet friend Karen Murphy. The other guests chosen for the festival include Kate Wilson, Kevin Gillam, Andy White, Steve Smart, Maitland Schnaars, and Tineke Van Der Eecken. You can find out more about them here.

The following list of events are those in which I am directly involved:

Poetry & Emotion Workshop
Kaos Room: Blue Room Theatre
53 James Street
Northbridge 6003
Friday 17th August 2012
3:00-5:00pm

Festival Launch
PICA Bar (Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts)
51 James Street
Northbridge 6003
Friday 17th August 2012                                                                                        
9:30pm-11:30pm

Poets Lunch
The Moon Café
2/323 William Street
Northbridge 6003
Saturday 18^th August 2012
12:30pm-2:00pm

Perth Poetry Club Feature
The Moon Café
2/323 William Street
Northbridge 6003
Saturday 18th August 2012
2:00-4:00pm

Poetry Reading
Crow Books
900 Albany Hwy
East Victoria Park
Sunday 19th August2012
2:00pm-4:00pm

Young Poets
PICA Bar
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
51 James Street
Perth WA 6000
9:30pm-11:30pm

For a full description of those events and other WA Poetry Festival events click here.

Last week I had the good fortune of being featured in three local Community Newspapers: the Southern Gazette, the Stirling Times, and the Eastern Reporter. The interview was organised for me by my poet friend Sue Clennell who is also part of the WA Poets Inc committee which continue to work hard at promoting poetry in WA. If you have time, check out two of the articles from the newspapers in this post.

See you at the WA Poetry Festival!