No Waveโs June readings are back to normal scheduling and will fall on Wednesday 4 June at 7PM, a week after the May readings at The Wheatsheaf Hotel -- 39 George St, Thebarton.
This month's reading theme is 'Generations' and will be run by Ben Adams, an Adelaide-based poet, academic researcher and arts reviewer. Come hear work spanning across generations from:
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๐๐๐๐๐๐ -- has been writing and publishing poetry and short prose for almost forty years, performing at schools, jails, colleges, universities, construction sites, factories, rock concerts and literary festivals. Writing with a 'contrived simplicity', detailing the lives of seemingly ordinary people, his poet's eye for the micro, rather than the macro, allows him to focus on and dramatise a single crucial moment or situational aspect, to suggest much more the extraordinary. His work often provides a public voice for those living close to the margins and who are generally under-represented in contemporary literature. His most recent books are 'Blight Street' (Walleah Press), 'Out of Copley Street' (Wakefield Press) and 'Preparing for Business' (Wakefield Press).
๐ด๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐ -- is a queer, neurodivergent poet of Sarawakian, Chinese, and Irish descent born, raised and practising on Kaurna Land. For Mei, poetry is many things: a place of sanctuary, a conduit for connection, a weapon in the fish against complacency and oppression, and a means of tempering their tendency towards word vomit. Through layering prose Meiโs poetry explores their relationship with identity, colonialism, class, and the many fallibilities of human condition. Theyโve performed at open-mic poetry nights and fundraising events across Adelaide, and represented South Australia at the 2024 Australian Poetry Slam National Final.
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-- is a writer living on the unceded land of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains. She co-edited the short fiction and poetry anthology 'The Body' and holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide where she taught across English, Creative Writing and the Social Sciences, and now works as Manager of the Student Academic Skills team. Her poetry, memoir, fiction, and literary criticism has appeared in TEXT journal, Sleepers Almanac, anthologies by Wakefield Press, University of Philippines Press, and Midnight Sun, and online magazines including Verity La and Red Fez. Her poem โHow We Stayโ won the 2017 Verandah Literary Award.
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๐ค๐ก๐ก๐ฎ -- is a South Australian educator and writer. She taught in secondary schools for forty years, mainly in South Australian Technical High Schools until 1974. In 1978 she completed a Masters degree in English literature at Flinders University. Erica realised early that categorisation and predetermined pathways for students limited their scope. That limitation, reinforced by teaching subjects as 'silos', discouraged interdisciplinary approaches. Her latest book is a free verse memoir, 'This Business of Living and Learning' (Wakefield Press).
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