Spoken Word

15 Aug 2023

Spoken Word Ep: 24, Amanda Anastasi, The Sonic Poetry Festival

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Spoken Word Ep: 24, Amanda Anastasi, The Sonic Poetry Festival

This week on Spoken Word we are joined by Amanda Anastasi as we discuss the up and coming Melbourne and Victoria based spoken word event, ‘Sonic Poetry Festival.

https://sonicpoetryfestival.com/

Sonic Poetry Festival is a community-based grassroots poetry and spoken word festival based in Melbourne / Naarm.

Our 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 also seek to create pathways for people who need poetry in their lives and don’t know it, and serve micro-communities that deserve to exist.

I’m New Here! What’s in it for me?

The Melbourne/Naarm (including regional Victoria) poetry community is a welcoming, warm, and inspiring space to share work and to grow as a poet. Poets of all backgrounds and experience levels are not only welcome, but wanted in this space. Come through, listen, learn, grow, and (if it’s an open mic) share. Welcome to the community!

I’ve Always Been Here! What about me?

It’s been a rough few years. This robust community has bounced back in a big way, as we have transitioned back into our old haunts and branched out to new ones. This poetry festival is primarily an opportunity to connect gigs all over Melbourne/Naarm, figuratively and literally. We support each other. This is a celebration of that.

Amanda Anastasi is a Melbourne poet whose work has been published as locally as the Artist’s Lane walls in Windsor to The Massachusetts Review in the US. Her latest collection is ‘The Inheritors’ (Black Pepper, 2021). Amanda’s work has been published in Best Australian Science Writing 2021 and 2022, Australian Poetry Journal, Griffith Review, Cordite Poetry Review, FourW, Short and Twisted and Right Now. She is a two-time winner of the Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize, formerly was the Poet in Residence at the Monash Climate Change Communications Research Hub, where she wrote poetry to raise awareness about ecological issues and the climate crisis.