Thursday, June 27, 2019
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax St, Adelaide.
Two of Adelaide’s finest poets and social commentators, Jude Aquilina and Mike Hopkins, bring their work to Halifax Cafe. This gig comes with the 100% guarantee that you will be totally entertained!!
The Halifax Cafe will be open for meals, refreshments, coffee and more. Come early, stay late.
$5 at the door to pay the poets.
Click here for the Facebook event.
Jude Aquilina has published poetry, short stories and articles in Australia and abroad. Jude has published seven of her own poetry collections including Knifing the Ice, On a Moon Spiced Night and WomanSpeak (which is co-written with Louise Nicholas). Jude is a teacher of creative writing who lives in Milang and was the winner of the 2018 Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship. Jude is a private editor and runs writing workshops in the community, including in schools and in a prison.
Mike Hopkins was born in London, and lived in England, Wales, Ireland, Zimbabwe and Malawi before settling in Adelaide in 1988. He was a State finalist in the Australian Poetry Slam in 2012, won the South Australian Libraries World Poetry Day Slam in 2013, the ‘60 Second Slam’ in the Adelaide Fringe in 2014 and was a finalist in the Spoken Word SA Summer Slam 2017. His poetry has been published in journals and magazines in Australia and Europe and has featured on both local and national radio. He is a member of the Poetica and First Draft poetry groups, and an ex-Convenor of Friendly Street Poets. Publications: Selfish Bastards, Garron Publishing, 2016; Mistaken for a Real Poet, Friendly Street New Poets 16, Wakefield Press, 2011. He blogs at mistakenforarealpoet.wordpress.com.