THAT POETRY THING
Ross Donlon (VIC), CJ Bowerbird (CBR)
No mic
7-9pm Monday 17 June (Doors open 6:30pm)
Smith’s Alternative, Canberra
$10/$5
Ross Donlon has read extensively in Australia & Europe, but Canberra and Smiths is a favourite. His most recent work is a sequence of 50 ghazals which will feature in his reading. He has won some prizes but is especially glad to be in a number of anthologies, both here & the UK. most recently in The Book of Birds (Canberra) & Festival in a Book (U.K.).
CJ Bowerbird is a spoken word artist and the 2012 Australian Poetry Slam Champion. In 2018, he released Beyond This Blue, a recording of the show he created with the Downfall Choir for the 2017 National Folk Festival. He is currently writing a verse play with the support of the The Street Theatre.
Poets for the open mic sign up on the night, from 6.40pm with the MC Shane Strange. Three minutes max. Presented with the support of That Poetry Thing.
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