On May 6th, NO WAVE features another four great readers from across Adelaide & SA's thriving lit scene. They are:
Alex Sawyer
Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social
Carissa Fischer
& Travis Lucas
7 for 7:30pm
The Wheaty
38 George St Thebarton
Event page: www.facebook.com/events/25846504278355809
NO WAVE returns for 2026 w/ four excellent readers from across Adelaide & SA's thriving lit scene. They are:
Courtney Jaye @sunnycaffeine.bsky.social
Tyler Jackson
Tracy McNally
& Jazz Fechner-Lante
April 1
7:30pm
The Wheaty
38 George St Thebarton
Event page: www.facebook.com/share/17TzsGTzay/
Good stuff Geoffrey. "memory forgets. / perhaps this is all we know, / not knowing how to remember" reminded me of Cohen's "I can't forget / but I don't remember what"
Adelaide songwriters Kate Lewis and Katie Pomery present an hour of introspective sadness that’s ultimately about the importance of social connection. ★★★★
My @adlfrin.ge music review for 𝘐𝘯𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸
www.indailysa.com.au/inreview/mus...
Nice work. Just had a flick through yours and others, on the train as it happens...
Come see Tracey 'Queen of Sass' O'Callaghan's second & final show tomorrow at 6pm
To help fill remaining seats, wrangle some friends & buy four tickets & you'll get a free copy of her collected poems: adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/br...
Kick off a busy Friday night at the @adlfrin.ge & Festival.
She can certainly turn the emotional intensity up to 11 in a heartbeat, but all those softer, less serious, more contemplative numbers on the dial get a good hearing, too.
This isn’t Spinal Tap; it’s The Queen of Sass.
Tickets available at the link.
adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/br...
..and balls a-plenty – with a range of tonal complexity and side quests in between. There’s your banter.
It's also an updated setlist, so even if you came last year, there'll be new and different material to keep your attention.
Having reviewed the first run of this set at last year's Fringe, I can say it's an hour of spoken word poetry that is by turns comic and socially incisive; playful and reflectively sombre, or rage-induced and, hopefully, inducing – there’s your brains...
theclothesline.com.au/brains-balls...
The first of Tracey O'Callaghan's two @adlfrin.ge performances of 𝑩𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝑩𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒔 & 𝑩𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓 is on in just under a fortnight — Sunday 22nd February at 4pm with a second show the following Friday, February 27th at 6pm.
It's my great pleasure to be MC for both slots.
She can certainly turn the emotional intensity up to 11 in a heartbeat, but all those softer, less serious, more contemplative numbers on the dial get a good hearing, too.
This isn’t Spinal Tap; it’s The Queen of Sass.
Tickets available at the link.
adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/br...
...and balls a-plenty – with a range of tonal complexity and side quests in between. There’s your banter.
It's also an updated setlist, so even if you came last year, there'll be new and different material to keep your attention.
Having reviewed the first run of this set at last year's Fringe, I can say it's an hour of spoken word poetry that is by turns comic and socially incisive; playful and reflectively sombre, or rage-induced and, hopefully, inducing – there’s your brains...
theclothesline.com.au/brains-balls...
The second part of my interview with Kate Cooper will be playing today at 4pm on Vision Australia Radio Adelaide, 1197 AM.
You can then hear it at the Emerging Writers podcast archive with, I believe, an extra bonus reading that didn't fit in the broadcast version!
Live: player.listenlive.co/65731
Thanks Geoffrey! I'm glad it gave something good — so hard to know from behind the desk!
Part one of an interview I had with Kate Cooper will be broadcast on Vision Australia Radio today at 4pm. Tune in to the broadcast at 1197 AM or stream it online at the link.
It will then be on the Emerging Writers podcast archive for later listening.
radio.visionaustralia.org/podcasts/eme...
...along with theoretical insights regarding emergent forms of extremism, to discuss the dynamics of these developing trends and some potentially productive responses.
Also look forward to catching up w/ comrades inc. @anguslindsay.bsky.social
See programme: static1.squarespace.com/static/61550...
Garth Stahl & I will present findings & insights from previous research—including our report 𝘔𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘌𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘌𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦—combined with preliminary thematic analysis of Australian social media content as part of my current work alongside @natemanning.bsky.social...
Looking forward to attending the AVERT Research Network 2025 Symposium later this month on this year's theme of 'Signal or noise? Navigating the changing nature of violent extremism online'
You can peruse the full program via AVERT's symposium page: www.avert.net.au/2025-symposium
Schrödinger's existential crisis. Sharp.
As part of the Archē exhibition at Coral Street Art Space in Victor Harbor, I'm looking forward to sharing the bill with three outstanding South Australian poets:
Steve Brock,
Olivia De Zilva
& Tyler Jackson
Saturday NOV 15 from 5:30pm for 'Slow Lane'
Tix $5 at the link: square.link/u/OSXrT1RC
Fun to spend Saturday afternoon w/ Spoken Word SA hearing excellent variations on nature #poetry this past weekend. Chuffed that my tangential take on 'human nature' landed well! Thanks Pam for hosting, Shaine for a great feature set & Ian for his excellent pics.
spokenwordsa.com.au/be-natural-p...
Cheers Alan. Really appreciate that reflection!
Another month of Wednesday #poetry readings at Ern Malley bar, #Adelaide
Both Chelsea Avard and myself will be on the bill October 8th.
Come along — 6:30 for 7pm in Stepney, 137 Magill Road.
Not a hoax!
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Submission Open
15th September to 15th of October 2025
Submissions are now open for issue 28 of The Manchester Review. The Editors are looking forward to reading the best of your poetry, fiction, and non fiction.
#NeverAgain will we think of flowers growing from a moonscape of glass sand and rubble munitions and money the rockets falling, launching punching down and flailing the velocity of escape and us: red velvet dust and annihilation tyrants bicker the best seats the rest: weary and weakened the confidence of moral clarity an illusion slipping towards death and exhaustion a reverie, forever again, a poem written twice
My effort for #PoemsAbout #NeverAgain
Cheers to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk for curating these prompts.
A far more susbstantive alignment, alas
Our state poetry slam final falls on the same Saturday as Australia's national football code season climax...
The Australian Poetry Slam 2025 – SA State Final put on by the folks at @spokenwordsa.bsky.social is coming up on Saturday 27 September at 7:30pm. I'll be competing alongside some truly excellent local poets and performers so come along!
More info and tix below:
spokenwordsa.com.au/australian-p...