This will be my last blog for a fortnight or so as I knuckle down to write a new poem. I travelled four hours south to Kempsey last week for the local heat of the Australian Poetry Slam. I couldn’t go in the heat at Byron Bay because I was the feature act after winning last year… and I wasn’t entirely …
Byron Bay Writers Festival
You know what’s difficult? Adjusting to reality after something like the Byron Bay Writers Festival. I had a pretty magical time there last Friday to Sunday. It also involved quite a bit of hat-changing.
Poetry slam state finals
The organisers of the Australian Poetry Slam have uploaded the vid of my performance at the NSW Finals.
Slammed but inspired
I’ve always been pretty good at keeping my hopes down. ‘Don’t get your hopes up, Sam.’
Me – the slam poet
Know what I love about being 30+?