Spoken Word: Episode 49: Waffle Iron Girl: Sonic Poetry Festival 2024.
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James spoke to Es Foong, one of the poets involved in the Melbourne Sonic Poetry Festival.
The festival is a community-based grassroots poetry and spoken word festival based in Melbourne / Naarm.
The festival’s aim is to connect poetry and spoken word practitioners of all varieties, audience members, gig organisers, convenors and facilitators in a celebration of poetry and the spoken word. We would like to create entrances for gigs, artists and the poets out there quietly writing and reciting. We seek to create pathways for people who need poetry in their lives and don’t know it, and provide space for people to share their stories. One of their core ideals is to also serve micro-communities that deserve to exist.
Es Foong (Waffle Irongirl) is a poet, flash fictionista and spoken word performer living on the land of the Wurundjeri people. Their poems have appeared in Australian Poetry Journal, Rabbit Poetry, Kalliope X and the Best of Australian Poems 2022 anthology. They have performed on poetry stages including La Mama Poetica and Queensland Poetry Festival 2022. On-stage, they are the poetic analogue of heavy-metal karaoke. Off-stage, they eat identity labels for breakfast. Their debut poetry collection “Clot and Marrow” was released from Recent Work Press in September 2024.
Book tickets: https://sonicpoetryfestival.com/home
https://sonicpoetryfestival.com/program/embodied-poetry-in-performance
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