The
September Word Co-op is the first of a bimonthly poetry night at the ANU Food Co-op.
This
month we bring together feature sets from Candy Royalle, Paul Magee, Aaron
Kirby & Bela Farkas.
Entry
is by donation.
Here is
some background on our poets for the night:
Candy
Royalle
Candy Royalle is a performance artist and poet who fuses cinematic storytelling,
poetry and unique vocal rhythms with confronting, political and heart thumping
content. In the 10 years since her debut, Royalleʼs career has taken her across
both the frontiers of poetry, and the world. Sheʼs captivated audiences both
nationally and internationally, including Spain, the UK and America. Candy
Royalle has been nominated for numerous awards and in 2012 won the “World
Poetry Cup” beating 46 other poets for the coveted title and trophy. Her work
has been published in numerous anthologies in Australia and internationally.
Royalleʼs work has been covered in many major media outlets including ABC,
Fairfax, News Limited, CNN and a host of local and street press.
Aaron
Kirby
Aaron
Kirby makes poetry to understand and explain the world he experiences.
Believing the poet requires no particular credentials he presents none.
Aaron Kirby at BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! |
Paul
Magee
Paul
Magee’s first book was the surrealist ethnography From Here to Tierra del Fuego
(University of Illinois Press: 2000). He is author of the eleven-chapter Cube
Root of Book (John Leonard Press: 2006), and is currently working on Chapter
Twelve (forthcoming 2013), both in verse. In addition, he is on a late draft of
a scholarly monograph concerning the meeting point between aesthetics and
epistemology, entitled Poetry and Knowledge (forthcoming 2014). Paul teaches
poetry at the University of Canberra, and is a chief investigator on the
Australian Research Council-funded project Understanding Creative Excellence: a
Case Study in Poetry. He studied in Moscow, Melbourne, San Salvador and Sydney.
Alongside his verse and his scholarly contributions on poetics, he has
published on Marxian thought, psychoanalysis, stagnation, boredom and
revolution.
Paul Magee as part of the
You Are Here 2013 Page vs Stage
Bela
Farkas
Serial
celebrity name dropper Bela Farkas is a Canberra-based poet. Much of his work
has been influenced by popular culture and current events. He has featured at
Canberra’s BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! and the Traverse Poetry Slam at the Font; at
West Word in Melbourne; and as part of the ACT Australian Poetry Slam. As part
of the Tragic Troubadours Bela has performed at the Corinbank, Canberra Fringe,
National Folk, and You Are Here festivals. Recently published in United
Kingdom’s The Delinquent Magazine, Bela also has a degree in Public Relations
from the University of Canberra.
Bela Farkas at BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! |
All images unless otherwise specified are courtesy of Adam Thomas.