Thursday, July 25, 2019
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax St, Adelaide.
Two of SA’s most experienced poets, Thom Sullivan and Kami each bring unique perspectives to their writing and performance.
The Halifax Cafe will be open for meals, refreshments, coffee and more. Come early, stay late.
$5 at the door to pay the poets.
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Thom Sullivan grew up in Wistow/Bugle Ranges in the Adelaide Hills. His poems have appeared in Australian Book Review, Australian Love Poems, Australian Poetry Anthology, The Best Australian Poems, The Canberra Times, Cordite Poetry Review, Eureka Street, The Independent Weekly, Marrickville Pause, Otoliths, Overland, Tincture Journal, Transnational Literatureand Westerly. His debut book of poems, CARTE BLANCHE, is available from vagabondpress.net. From time-to-time he’s identified as an Aries, an INFJ, a Phlegmatic, a Dog, and an Enneagram Type 9.
thomsullivanpoet.com | facebook.com/thomsullivanpoet | twitter: @thomsullivansa
Kami went to the pub for a decade on Ralph magazine’s dime and wasPeoplemagazine’s boxing expert. He has published two novellas, with poetry and short stories published nationally and internationally. In 2010, Kami won the Single Poet Collection Award at the Poetry Unleashed Festival. He has performed in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Newcastle including the Adelaide Fringe Festival, the National Young Writers Festival and theMelbourne Writers Festival. In 2009 and 2011 he represented SA at the Australian Poetry Slam National Showcase in Sydney. As a spoken word performer, he has supported national and international musical acts in Adelaide and Sydney. Kami has organised and hosted slams, book launches and readings. He has chaired and appeared on writing panels in SA and interstate. Since 2013 he has been co-director of Spoken Word SA, curating SA Heats of the Australian Poetry Slam.