Welcome to Uplift’s monthly events newsletter, featuring poetry events in Meanjin (Brisbane), Queensland, and Australia-wide.
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Queensland
15 April, 6.30pm at The Scottish Prince Palm Beach - Prince Poetry Beat, April
16 April, 9am at Wynnum Library - Writers of Wynnum Manly
18 April & 16 May, 6pm - Wynnum Library - Poets Up Late
18 April, 4.30pm on Zoom - Queensland Poetry Writers Group - Contact Mike Gilmour, Coordinator - mgilmour92@gmail.com
19 April at the Grove Bar - ScratchThat Autumn Zine Launch
21 April, 4pm at Cyber Bunker, Fortitude Valley - Cyber Bunker Project Space Opening
21 April & various dates, 9am at Men’s Shed, Old Petrie Town Heritage Village, Kurwongbah - North Pine Bush Poets
22 April & various dates, 6.30pm at The Blue Pacific Hotel, Woorim - Bribie Island Bush Poets
24 April, 6.30pm at Lefty’s Music Hall - Ruckus Poetry Slam
25 April, 6pm at Dust Temple - Alternator Poetry, April - featuring Koraly Dimitriadus
27 April, 6.30pm at the Space Between Coolum - Liquid Lyrics "Who are you?"
1 May, 10.30am at Mt Coot-tha Library - Meet Sandra Pearce, editor of Wetland Wanderings
4 May, 3pm & various dates at Museum of Brisbane - Ekphrastic Writing Club
7 May, 6pm at The Cave In, Woolloongabba - Echoes from the Cave open mic
12 May, 9.15am at Carindale Library - Scribblers on Sunday
14 May, 6.30pm at the Bearded Lady - Wham! Bam! Cabaret Slam!
27 May, 5pm at Brisbane Square Library - a panic room / a piercing: an evening with Singaporean authors
30 May - 2 June - Brisbane Writers Festival
Online
18 April, 4.30pm on Zoom - Queensland Poetry Writers Group - Contact Mike Gilmour, Coordinator - mgilmour92@gmail.com
27 April, 11am AEST - Online Launch of The World In Our Words Poetry Collaboration
April & May via Zoom - Events on The Verandah with Cath Drake
2 June, 4pm NZST on Zoom - Girls on Key poetry Zoom featuring Alana Kelsall
10 June to 8 July on Zoom - The Unbound Self: 5 week online poetry course with Sarah Temporal
Victoria
15 April & 29 April, 7.30pm in St Kilda - Last Outpost of Poetry
17 April, 6.30pm at Readings Carlton - Launch of Stellar Atmopsheres by Alicia Sometimes
17 April, 7.30pm in Brunswick - Spoken Word @ Bar Oussou
18 April, 6.30pm in Fitzroy - An Aviary of Common Birds by Lalah-Simone Springer - Book Launch & Open Mic
18 April, 7.15pm at Dancehouse Melbourne - SpeakUP Showcase April 2024
19 April, 7.30pm at Fitzroy Art Collective - Wordcraft Spoken Word feat. tyrnyr
20 April, 6.30pm at The Chestnut Tree Bookshop - Poetry Workshop with Lalah-Simone Springer: Self-Love Sonnets 101
21 April, 3pm at Gummo Cafe - Melbourne Morphemes
21 April & 19 May, 4pm at Palling Bros Brewery - Pizzaboxpoetry Open Mic
23 April, 6pm at Brunswick Ballroom - Slamalamadingdong
24 April & 8 May, 7pm at Radio Bar, Fitzroy - Radio Talk: Poetry Open Mic
1 May, 7pm at TBH Studios - Ballarat Spoken Word
2 May, 7.30pm at Casa de Playa, Mornington - Poetry on Fire
9 May, 6pm at Unassigned Gallery, Brunswick - Crockpot Poetry
23 May at Brunswick Artists Bar - Thin Red Lines
For more events in Naarm (Melbourne), head to the amazing MelbournePoetry.com
ACT
15 April, 7pm at Smith’s Alternative - Recent Work Reading: Lucy Alexander and Adrian Caesar, plus open mic
22 April, 7pm at Smith’s Alternative - That Poetry Thing with Samia Goudie and Linda Godfrey, plus open mic
29 April, 7pm at Smith’s Alternative - Mother Tongue - Multilingual Poetry Open Mic
6 May, 7pm at Smith’s Alternative - Kindred Trees Poetry Reading with Tree Week + That Poetry Thing + tree themed open mic
17 June, 7pm at Smith’s Alternative - That Poetry Thing with Ross Donlon and CJ Bowerbird
NSW
16 April, 7pm at Sappho, Glebe - April Open Stage @ Sappho
17 April, 6pm at Society City, Wollongong - April Poetry Night featuring Chiara Lyon
17 April, 7.30pm at the Glebe Hotel - Sydney Poetry Lounge
20 April, 11am at Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Garden - The Poet’s Path with Luke Sweedman
21 April 2pm at FLOW STUDIO 88, Camperdown - Quiet Readers by licensed poetics
26 April & 2 May, 6.30pm at Parliament on King, Erskineville - Bread & Butter Poetry Slam
30 April, 7pm at Sappho - AVANT GAGA #67, featuring TT.O. (PiO), Andrew Brooks, Chloe Mayne, William Fox, Panda Wong, Anita Solak and Daley Rangi
4 May, 10am at CWA Hall, Murwillumbah - Slam Masterclass with Sarah Temporal
6 May to 3 June at Murwillumbah Community Centre - The Unbound Self: 5 week poetry course with Sarah Temporal
9 May & 13 June at By Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf - Poetica Petit Poetry Night
11 May, 4pm at The Citadel, Murwillumbah - Poets Out Loud SUPER SLAM
Northern Territory
28 April, 4.30pm at The Last Supper, Darwin - Wild Words
April - June - NT Writers Centre Program - Season 2
27–30 June at Museum and Art Gallery of the NT in Darwin, Larrakia land - Northern Territory Writers Festival
21-25 August - Mparntwe (Alice Springs) - Red Dirt Poetry Festival
Thursdays, 5.30pm at Red Hot Arts - Emerging Writers’ Group - Join the waitlist
South Australia
18 April, 6pm at Summertown Studio, Somerton Park - Draw Your (S)words Ft Tegan Sabine and Naomi Keyte
22 April, 7.30pm at Effective Living Centre - Poets Corner with Peter Goldsworthy
24 April, 6pm at City of Tea Tree Gully Library, Modbury - An evening with Jill Wherry
10 May, 7pm at Nexus Arts, Lion Arts Centre - Agapi & Other Kinds of Love by Luka Lesson
15 May, 4.30pm at Adelaide City Library - The Memory Place: Poetry Workshops With Caroline Reid
Tasmania
17 April, 5.30pm at Hobart Library - Haiku Panel Discussion, Launch & Reading: Under the Same Moon
1 May, 6.30pm at Shambles Brewery, Hobart - Silver Words - Feature: Samm Cameron - Spoken Word Open Mic
4 May, 2.30pm at The ArtHouse New Norfolk - INKub8Tor Exploration of the Poem
7 May, 6pm at Boho, Kingston Beach - Open Mic @ Boho
10 May, 5.30pm at Hobart Library - Poet’s Corner at Hobart Library
28 May, 10:30am Rosny Library - Poets Corner at Rosny Library
Western Australia
18 April, 6pm at Mattie Furphy House, Swanbourne - An evening with John Kinsella
18 April, 5.30pm at Albany Public Library - Nature Poetry Evening
20 April, 10am at Piney Lakes Environmental Education Centre - WA Tree Festival - Poet-tree workshop
20 April & 27 April, 2pm at The Moon, Northbridge & on Zoom - Perth Poetry Club
27 April, 4.30pm at Rosemount Hotel, Perth - Perth Slam
Uplift is based on stolen lands in Meanjin, the lands of the Jagera and Turrbal people. Sovereignty was never ceded. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.