The 2018 ACT Australian Poetry Slam is underway to find Canberra’s next champions of poetry.
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The next heat is on Thursday, September 20, from 7pm at Smiths Alternative book store in Allinga Street.
That will be followed by another heat on Friday, September 28, from 7pm at Gang Gang Cafe in Downer.
Heat winners will compete at the Gorman Arts Centre on Saturday, October 6, two winners will then be flown to Sydney to compete in the Australian Poetry Slam Final.
The competition involves poets performing their original material, on the mic, on stage, with
no props or music, for two minutes.
The poets are judged by audience members who have been chosen for the night as the final arbiters of poetry. Rules are different at each heat.
