Friday, April 29, 2011

National Folk Festival

So the National Folk Festival was a cracking success!

Performing with the Tragic Troubadours, I poemed and theatred at the crowds of people lining up to get into the ever popular Majestic tent, home of the Canberra Fringe Festival. Most  members of the ambushed audience took kindly to words being flung at them. The Troubadours also performed a wildly successful play (penned by Bela) to a rowdy crowd of 400 headbanging gypsies between the sets of the Crooked Fiddle Band and Flap!.

I performed two blackboard sets at the Tantric Turtle chai tent (special mention to Lila, who endured 25 hours of silence designed to raise awareness of Invisible Children [African child soldiers].  Thanks for the chai and your words. Josh)

I also competed in the International Wear Pajamas Day edition of Bad! Slam! No! Biscuit! (also in the Majestic) where my poem "My breakfast served the Khmer Rouge" was fed to the massed philistines who ate it up but were left with an unsatisfying taste of pun in their mouth.


 

NeoLogos of the New Aeon

Morbese:
Portmanteau of morbidly obese, used to describe the next level of corpulence, specifically when the person described is too fat to fit on a page.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Backfrica from Africa

I have returned from 4 months in Africa, with a collection of poems being edited and rewritten.
these poems will form the basis of a new Zine project of mine called Desire Map: Anatomy of Infidelity.

also....

upcoming performances:

Competing in this month's Bad! Slam! No! Biscuit!, Phoenix Bar, East Row, Canberra City (April 20th)

Performing with the Tragic Troubadours at the Australian National Folk Festival (every day over Easter long weekend)

Feature poet for Bad! Slam! No! Biscuit! at the Phoenix Bar, third Wednesday of May

Saturday, January 1, 2011

bus poem

Alight from my lips, dear kiss
where you so lightly laid;
I will not breathe a word of this
so leave with your fear allayed

Monday, December 27, 2010

Karibu Cousin

Goodbye long dry
arid iris in big sky
blue eye
my heart and I
no longer
Gondwana but
wander westward
nearer
Tanzania
karibu cousin!
Your eyes mirror
the smiles we left behind

Tutaonana kaskazi
Jangwa jicho katika kikubwa anga
bluu jicho
mimi nawangu moyo
tunaacha
kutanga Gondwana
lakini magharibi
karibu na
Tanzania
welcome Binamu!
Jicho vyenu
ziko vioo
badala ya
vicheko
tunaacha  

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Cannibal Kittens and Dubious Mothers presents -

What-for tenettabaum? Avuncular! 
Friday 26 November the Front Cafe and Gallery

Who comes up with these names?

Instead of the final traverse poetry slam (the front slam) of the year there is to be a spoken word showcase.
with 13 of the usual gang of idiots finest* spoken word performers in canberra.

The night kicks off at 8pm and runs late with Jason Recliner playing after the hullabulloo quietens down.

My set starts at 8:45 with the theme "you can not perform that in garema place, Joshua"

There will be a merchandising table with copies of Heavy Selfish Verbs on sale for 2 dollars.
If you dont want to purcahse a copy of the zine will be on the table for you to write your name and phone number on it.

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Performing Tonight - Mindscapes Festival

Performing tonight at Garema Place for the Mindscapes Festival.


The festival kicks off at 16:00,  runs through to 22:00

My 15 of fame begins at 17:15

Be there!