Spoken Word

This week we were joined live on air by the award winning poet, writer and editor, Tim Loveday.

Tim Loveday is an award-winning poet, writer, and editor. As the recipient of a 2021 Next Chapter Wheeler Centre Fellowship, a 2022 Writing Space Fellowship, and a 2023 Australian Arts Council Grant his work focuses on Australian masculinity, intergenerational violence, and rural communities reckoning with climate collapse. His poetry/prose has appeared in Meanjin, Overland, The Griffith Review, Cordite, Suburban Review, Mascara, and The Big Issue, among many others. In 2022 he won the Dorothy Porter Poetry Award and in 2021 he was Highly Commended in the Southern Cross Short Story Award. His spoken word has been featured on RRR and FBI Radio. He has performed his work extensively throughout Victoria, including at Melbourne Spoken Word. A Neurodivergent dog parent, he the verse editor for The Creative Hub of Extinction Rebellion and the director of Curate||Poetry: where word art meets visual art. He is represented by Jacinta di Mase agency; they are currently shopping his verse memoir, ‘your father was a bastard’. You can find out more at: timloveday.com or on his instagram: t.j.loveday

Tim has also recently started a spoken word event in Melbourne called Curate||Poetry where poets respond to art in art spaces. We’re recording response works, and others, so we have quite a bit of work up our sleeves if you’re interested.