That Poetry Thing: Melinda Smith (ACT) + (quite) a Big Open Mic

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That Poetry Thing presents: Melinda Smith (ACT) + a quite Big Open Mic


Melinda Smith lives and writes on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country. Her poetry career spans 24 years and 8 books, and she won the Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award in 2014. She has been invited to read her work all over Australia and in Italy, New Zealand and Japan. She has also taught in the Creative Writing program at the University of Canberra, is a former poetry editor of the Canberra Times, and former co-organiser of the That Poetry Thing reading series at Smith's Alternative. Since 2024 she has been one quarter of the Hell Herons spoken word collective (their album The Wreck Event is available on Bandcamp and all streaming services). In October 2025 she will have a joint exhibition at M16 Gallery with artist Caren Florance ('Corridors of Power') of early outputs from their joint Creative Australia project: Found Poetry of the Howard Years.

Sign up for the open mic - each poet has 3 minutes - turn up a bit before to sign on with MC Sue Donnelly.

You may also like the following events from That Poetry Thing That Is On At Smith's Every Monday:

• Next Monday, 23rd June, 09:00 am, That Poetry Thing: Big Open Mic! in Canberra

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