Off the Page

September 10, 6pm at the Darwin Sailing Club

It's all about the laughs!!

Returning to the sunset splendour of the Darwin Sailing Club, the NT Writers’ Centre is delighted to present a night of some of the funniest  writing  around.

Headlining the night will be comedian, musician and actor Phil Densen. Phil has performed and written a number of pieces for performance including State of Mind which was was recently nominated for an AWGIE award. Also appearing will be poet and  humourist, Greg Boxsell. Greg is well-known among Off the Page punters for his poignant, beautiful and funny poetry.
Local playwright and comedienne Danielle Andrews will be wowing the crowds with her quirky and hilarious work.
Music is courtesy of hip-hop artist Liam Monkhouse (out of Culture Connect).
Open mic registration and kick off is 6pm.

$10 full / $6 concession or member.

Darwin Sailing Club. Come on down. Have a giggle. 

Picnic Poetry @ East Point
Sunday 5 September from 5pm

Picnic for National Poetry Week
by Bronwyn Mehan

Poems printed on napkins. Poems that told of the potato’s role in family history. Of an onion given on Valentines Day. Of a flirtatious mango. Poems where lovers are not like strawberries. Poems for meatlovers and vegetarians. Poems for the hungry.

Poems recited from memory and read from chapbooks. Handwritten and photocopied poems. Poems about fences and neighbours. About blindness, gravestones and loss. Poems of yearning. Sailing away with little hope poems. Highway poems, desert poems. Poems alive with insects, birds and plants. Poems where toddlers in shopping trolleys reach for the stars.

Poems by Linda Godfrey, Sandra Thibodeaux, Andy Kissane, Kaye Aldenhoven, Tricia Dearborn, Michael Watts, joanne burns, Charles Simic, Leni Shilton, Sandra Parker, Roger McGough, Lyn Lowe, Carole Anne Duffy, Dorothy Porter, Robbie Wesley, Carol Jenkins, Robert Frost, Bronwyn Mehan.

Sunday poetry picnic. Shared food, good company. A muted Arafura sunset.

A Way With Words

A great little radio segment featuring Picnic Poetry by Carol Jenkins, including a very apt food poem: Food Spice Trade

Listen here.

Available for download until 8 September 2010