We have interviewed the likes of Laurie Anderson, Henry Rollins, Gene Simmons, Ben Elton, Geoffrey Robertson, Sage Francis, John Cooper Clarke, George Negus, Peter Singer, Peter Temple, Kerry Greenwood, Allison Dubois, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Robert Dessaix, Delia Falconer, Raimond Gaita, Kate Grenville, Sonya Hartnett, Alan Hollinghurst, Michael Leunig, David Mitchell, John Shelby Spong, David Suzuki, Jon Kinsella, Barry Jones, Lemn Sissay, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Nick Earls, Robert Fisk, Victoria Hanna, Victoria Stanton and many more...
The following photos are of our interview with Laurie Anderson during the 2007 Melbourne International Arts Festival. The photos were taken by Sean M Whelan.
Sounds Like
We always want more sounds from all over the world. So if you have spoken word you want played please email: auraltext@optusnet.com.au or visit at RRR.
Aural Text is a spoken word/text/books/writing radio show on Melbourne's biggest independent radio station, 3RRR. Hosts are Steve Grimwade and Alicia Sometimes. The show is on Wednesdays 12-2pm (AEST), playing everything from Edwin Torres to Emilie Zoey Baker, Muppets to Maya Angelou, Aheadahead to all things spoken. You can stream 3RRR anywhere all over the world, live.
The songs in the player are examples of the beautiful tracks we play:
Sean M Whelan: The Taste and Shape of Every Door
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz: Sass Manifesto
Graham Nunn: The Stillest Hour (for G.W. McLennan). Vocals by Graham Nunn and music by Sheish Money
Going Down Swinging No.29 - new book / CD issue out 16 November 2009, featuring a live spoken word CD recorded at Melbourne Overload Poetry Festival! goingdownswinging.org.au
Si cette griffure ride ton mur Ne sois pas triste, camarade On vit pour prouver qu’on existe A chacun de voir si c’est crade
Sur un recoin de ta façade Loin des grands cons qui nous assomment Ecoute ce petit conte d’hommes Eternels seconds Que nous sommes
SI tu veux rencontrer Rockwell, je ne saurais trop te conseYEAH SI tu veux entendre d’autres histoires, mon site que j’incite à épYEAH SINON, si mes fades salades t’ont définitivement rassasYEAH SI mes vers finissent par saouler, n’hésite pas à m’envoyer ch (plaît-il ?)
To celebrate a decade of spoken word CD anthologies, we invite you into our listening lounges in Melbourne and Sydney. Lay back and immerse yourself in a world of aural poetry and storytelling drawn from a decade of sounds and stories MELBOURNE - INSTALLATION OPEN DAILY - Saturday 31st October - Monday 8th November Between 8am - 8pm weekdays & 11am - 8pm weekends . Venue: 1000 £ Bend - 361 Lt Lonsdale St Melbourne. Free entry before 5pm daily
SYDNEY - INSTALLATION OPEN DAILY - Friday 20th November - Monday 23rd November Between 3pm - 8pm daily. Venue: Walter Burley Griffin Incinerator - Forsyth St Glebe, Sydney. Free entry
Going Down Swinging is now calling for submissions of poetry, short fiction and non-fiction, flash, comic and graphic art, for our 29th issue (Nov/Dec 09) - submissions close 31st May 2009. www.goingdownswinging.org.au/submissions for guidelines and details. Spread the word. Love, GDS
Going Down Swinging No.28 is open for business - send us your audio poetry, your spoken word, your sound experimentals, your aural text, your whatever, via email mp3 or posted CD, by 1st January 2009.
Thanks for the add! If you haven’t already, please check out my novel, GETTING IN TUNE, and hear the fictional Killjoys at www. rogertrott. com. The story is about an angst-ridden guitarist who drags his band to a gig on Washington's Olympic Peninsula in search of the transcendent power of Pete Townshend’s Universal Chord. It’s a wild ride through the world of ‘70s rock & roll. Best—Roger Trott
Have you been up Shit Creek yet? No? Then you'll want to submit poems to Shit Creek Review's 'History and Memory' themed issue, due online in February '09. Submissions need to be in by 1st December. And if you have been up the Creek before, well, naturally you'll want to do it all over again. See the Submissions page at http://www. shitcreekreview. com/ for explanations, details, email address, submission form, PayPal details for bribes, etc.
A reminder that The Chimaera, too, is open for submissions until 1st December. The theme is Light Verse, and British Poet John Whitworth (who edited The Faber Book of Blue Verse) is the guest editor for that section -- so lighten up! But you can also submit general prose and verse for our Open Slather section. Go to http://www. the-chimaera. com/ and you should find a Submissions page somewhere there without too much trouble.
..and, any chance of you guys interviewing Sean next Wed about his new book and our press launch...let us know. Cheers - David & Graham. smallchangepress@smallchangepress.com
Paths cross and bridges grow, no doubt, Meanwhile, you might want to know what This Slamophone trip is about.
It all started with the idea Poetry's too live, too diverse, each syllable - unsellable, every ephemerical verse being too fierce to be coerced Speech is the one right we have left Tongue slamming, spinning, tables turning, and France cannot be left for deaf.
So with a camera in hand, we've taken the country by storm videalistic is the spirit, originality the norm. We started out with 50 vids, now we are up to 360, from Montreal down to Marseille, from Pointe-à-Pitre to Gai Paree.
Take any door and come on in. Be curious, you will be served : 360 clips around our way, 360 clicks around the word …
The poet whose body I rent – David Stavanger - is trying to deny my very existence & become a “serious” poet by releasing his own book without me (even though I ghost wrote 1/4 of the book....the good quarter!). If that wasn’t enough, he also plans to divorce me on the night – literally – claiming I didn’t put out and was nothing but a hackneyed alter-ego! So come along and bring the G-boy love on the night to see me gatecrash this little soiree...also Skye is playing, and she rocks glass hearts!
Friday 30th May 6:30pm start QLD Writers Centre, Level 2, 109 Edward St , Brisbane Tickets: $15.00 single or $20 couple (including a signed copy of the book, glass of wine & nibbles). Bookings: online at www. qwc. asn. au/shop/search. php?mode=search or you can call QWC on (07) 3839 1243
Going Down Swinging No.29 - new book / CD issue out 16 November 2009, featuring a live spoken word CD recorded at Melbourne Overload Poetry Festival! 
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