GDS#38 Spotlight: Hera Lindsay Bird and Rachel Ang
March 16, 2018
“I, too, want to cry all over Western civilisation. Then burn it the ground.”
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“I, too, want to cry all over Western civilisation. Then burn it the ground.”
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Alabama-raised Ebony MonCrief is a writer, performance poet, speaker and MC.
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Van Winkle has that kind of voice you believe instantly, the kind of poems you want to curl up with and the kind of sentence you would tear out and stick on your wall.
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Once a month we’re swapping articles and interviews with Canadian literary magazine PRISM international to share our writers with a wider audience.
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The Official Bio Anis Mojgani is a two-time National Poetry Slam Champion and winner of the International World Cup Poetry Slam. A TEDx Speaker and former resident of the Oregon Literary Arts ‘Writers in the Schools’ program, Anis has performed…
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When I was a young idiot without much idea what I wanted to do in life, I saw Sean Whelan’s show with the Mime Set in the old Spanish Club on Johnson Street. It was 2006, and my tiny mind…
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We spoke to Nat Ramabulana from Hayani, a South African play that questions the identity of this transitional society.
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Going Down Swinging is going global. Once a month we’re swapping articles with Canadian literary mag, PRISM international.
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The Official Bio Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz is the author of six books of poetry (including Dear Future Boyfriend, Hot Teen Slut, Working Class Represent, Oh, Terrible Youth and Everything is Everything) as well as the non-fiction book, Words In Your…
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Going Down Swinging is going global. Once a month we’ll be swapping articles and interviews with Canadian literary magazine, PRISM international, to share our writers with a wider international audience. A quarterly magazine out of Vancouver, British Columbia, PRISM international…
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The first time I saw Alia Gabres perform was onstage at a live-to-air 3RRR performance with Dave Graney, Mark Seymour and Jane Clifton in 2011. Alia was dynamic, powerful, and one of those indelible artists that command attention immediately.
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Alicia Sometimes chats to performance poet and recent Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship recipient Candy Royalle. The Official Bio Candy Royalle is a performance artist and poet who fuses cinematic storytelling, poetry and unique vocal rhythms with confronting, political and heart-thumping…
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We dug up this brilliant interview with Helen Garner from the seventh issue of Going Down Swinging, published in Autumn 1986. GDS: Why did you want to be a writer? HELEN GARNER: Well I didn’t want to be. I turned…
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In anticipation of the launch of her short story collection tomorrow, we quiz U.S. author Vanessa Blakeslee on writing and compiling ‘Train Shots’ – a bold and varied collection that includes her Going Down Swinging No. 33 story, ‘Ask Jesus’….
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Alicia Sometimes seeks out the most exciting spoken word artists in the land for your reading/listening pleasure. The Official Bio Jacky T is a performance poet/MC, writer and producer. Originally from country Victoria, he wears city life like an itchy…
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Over the next two weeks we’re tracking down as many Melbourne Fringsters as we can before shooting a ton of relevant and not-so-relevant questions at them very quickly. Today we say hello to: Cat Commander Show: Before the Spring Official…
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Over the next two weeks we’re tracking down as many Melbourne Fringsters as we can before shooting a ton of relevant and not-so-relevant questions at them very quickly. Today we say hello to: Izzy Roberts-Orr Show: It’s Happening in the…
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Over the next two weeks we’re tracking down as many Melbourne Fringsters as we can before shooting a ton of relevant and not-so-relevant questions at them very quickly. Today we say hello to: Emily Andersen Show: Love in the Key…
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Over the next two weeks we’re tracking down as many Melbourne Fringsters as we can before shooting a ton of relevant and not-so-relevant questions at them very quickly. Today we say hello to: Jacky T Show: T.A.P Official Fringe blurb:…
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So the Melbourne Fringe Festival (September 18 to October 6) launched this week and the weather is so crap lately we can’t help but be excited. Follow us as we track down some of our Fringe favourites over the next…
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Queensland Poetry Festival: spoken in one strange word is on from August 23 to 25. The festival has many illuminating and vibrant poets in its line-up and Sachiko Murakami is one of them. She will be running workshops and performances…
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Alicia Sometimes seeks out the most exciting spoken word artists in the land for your reading/listening pleasure. THE OFFICIAL BIO Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian writer and slam poetry champion of Afro-Caribbean descent. She is the author of the…
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Alicia Sometimes seeks out the most exciting spoken word artists in the land for your reading/listening pleasure. THE OFFICIAL BIO Omar Musa won the Australian Poetry Slam in 2008 and the Indian Ocean Poetry Slam in 2009. He has released…
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Alicia Sometimes seeks out the most exciting spoken word artists in the land for your reading/listening pleasure. THE OFFICIAL BIO Emilie Zoey Baker is a published award winning poet and slam champion. She has performed poetry all around the world,…
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Jetsetter and hip hop poet Joelistics is back in town and ready to ear-punch everyone tonight at our No. 34 warehouse party with new and glorious beats. We chat to the Elefant Traks signed, TZU frontman about all the good stuff:…
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Alicia Sometimes seeks out the most exciting spoken word artists in the land for your reading/listening pleasure. THE OFFICIAL BIO Luka Lesson is a spoken word and hip-hop artist cut from a different cloth. Writing rap music for nine years,…
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Photo / Steffen Pedersen From storytelling to social work, rural Victorian writer Neil Boyack is a man with a fair bit to talk about. He’s also just released his debut poetry collection, Self Help and Other Works. I talked words,…
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Designers Elise Santangelo and Stuart Hall don’t believe in Jesus. “I believe in karma,” says Elise. “I really like dogs,” says Stuart. “I feel like I have a connection with animals. I don’t know if it has any relevance to…
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“I’m on a mission to lower everyone’s expectations about the arts scene in Australia,” says Justin Heazlewood on the launch of his grand anti-tourbook, The Bedroom Philosopher Diaries. After asking a lone bagpiper to move from a park up…
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