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Australian Poetry Slam Youth (formerly The Rumble Youth Slam until 2018) is a youth poetry slam held annually by Word Travels alongside the Australian Poetry Slam. It is open to young artists between the ages of 12 and 18, and consists of a series of heats in which young poets are encouraged to practice as well as workshops allowing them to ...
From 10 to 11 December 2016 Salzburg, Austria, held a world-record poetry slam competition (28 hours of classic slam poetry) and broke the so-far-record of Nuremberg, Germany (25 hours), by Michl Jakob. The winner of the competition (Friedrich Herrmann) scored one point better in the finals than the second ranked (Darryl Kiermeier).
The Bankstown Poetry Slam (BPS) was founded in 2013 by Sara Mansour and Ahmad Al Rady, [5] and held in the southwest Sydney suburb of Bankstown. Since its inception, the poetry slam has featured notable poets such as Omar Musa, Luka Lesson, Jazz Money, Rupi Kaur and Rudy Francisco. It has held grand slams at the Art Gallery of New South Wales ...
Portrait of Luka Lesson. Luka Lesson (Stage name for Luke Haralampou) is an Australian slam poet.He won the Australian Poetry Slam in 2011 [1] and has been described by Charlie Dark as "a young Saul Williams" [2] in reference to his composition and delivery of poetry in providing social commentary.
The Prize began in September 1980 when Peter Goldman handed out an anthology of poetry at the Mattara Festival. [ 1 ] This anthology prompted two lecturers at the University of Newcastle, Christopher Pollnitz and Paul Kavanagh, to seek funding for a poetry competition which paved the way for the first official Mattara Poetry Prize in 1981.
The Mary Gilmore Award is currently an annual Australian literary award for poetry, awarded by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature.Since being established in 1956 as the ACTU Dame Mary Gilmore Award, it has been awarded in several other categories, but has been confined to poetry since 1985.
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Sara Mansour is an Australian lawyer, [1] writer, poet, and founder/artistic director of the Bankstown Poetry Slam. [2] [3] [4] The Bankstown Poetry Slam is the largest regular Poetry Slam in Australia [5] which offers an artistic outlet for the young people of Western Sydney to share their voices in a safe and inclusive environment.