Slamalamadingdong, Melbourne’s premiere poetry slam, run by one of the scene’s community building heavyweights, Michelle Dabrowski is back after a month long hiatus and boy did our calendar miss it. […]
Author: Annie Solah
Annie Solah is a writer, poet, spoken word artist, activist and the Director of Melbourne Spoken Word. She grew up in Western Sydney before calling Melbourne home in 2008, where she's performed since 2010 around Melbourne's regular spoken word and poetry nights including Passionate Tongues, The Dan Poets, Voices in the Attic and House of Bricks as well as the NGV and White Night. She's released a chapbook, broken bodies, and two spoken word albums, Duel Power with Santo Cazzati and The World Doesn't Make Sense EP.
Exciting news that Overland, a progressive journal and website based in Melbourne, has put a call out for audio submissions of spoken word for an upcoming digital publication. It will […]
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Video Verse: Omar Musa and Alia Gabres
Melbourne Spoken Word has had both Omar and Alia on our site before as part of the ‘Video Verse’ feature, but these two new videos deserve special mention. ‘Video Verse’ […]
Melbourne Spoken Word is very excited about this year’s upcoming Emerging Writers’ Festival taking place this May, especially because spoken word and spoken word artists feature in the fantastic program. […]
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Review: House Red by Di Cousens (Book)
Review by Amanda Anastasi After enjoying Di Cousens’ first collection – the reflective words and stunning photography of Freedom To Be – I did not need much coercion in grabbing […]
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Video Verse: 17 by Luka Lesson
Melbourne adopted Brisbane’s Luka Lesson a few years back and we are so glad to have him down here. Luka lent his voice to the campaign to stop 17-year-olds […]