When visiting Victoria I did a circuit of some spoken word afternoons that I found on the 'Melbourne spoken word' site. I managed to get these clips from a sunny Sunday 'Westword' at the Dancing Dog Cafe. They've been edited to remove the monologuing, I wasn't nearly supervillainous enough to leave in the monologuing.

Westword - A Reflection On Privilege

Westword - Moments

In didn't have a name but I started with the idea of talking about the world bank, development and poverty; a kind lady on the night (sorry I forgot your name) suggested the idea of 'balance' is central to the narrative, so the World Bank becomes the World Balance.

Don Bank - The World Balance (September 23rd 2015)

I threw my hat in the ring at the final Australian Poetry Slam Heat in Glebe first week of October 2015. This is a reduced version (there's a strict 2 minute limit for the slam contest) of a larger piece I still hope to record in full.

Dark Matter. Word Travels @ Word in Hand

Lucky enough to stumble into a slot with Bangkok Poetry on my last night in town. I did two poems, here is one of them.

ALL IN GOOD TIME - Bangkok Poetry 'Symbiosis' @ WTF Cafe. October 2015.

Quite a long piece, being perpetually edited but in this guise performed at 'New York, New York' in Manchester as part of my feature at Trans-dimensional Space Goats.

THE WOLVES AMONG US - Trans - Dimensional Space Goats. (New York New York) Manchester. December 2015

Joined in at 16th and mission. open and leaderless unstructured collective expression of whatever you choose to share. awesome energy. great people

The Prophet Said. 16th And Mission. San Francisco. March 31st 2016

Sunday

On the eve of the 2016 US Presidential election I performed this piece at Parramatta Poetry Slam. It is also worth noting that Donald Trump (or at least his rubber faced counterpart) was sitting in the front row.

You Know Who. Parramatta Poetry Slam. Sydney. 8th November 2016

Inspired by watching Kate Tempests show in Sydney (Feb 20th) we woke up in the morning and talked in verse to the pattern of something real, still bright in our minds.

Thank you Kate. That was quite a night <3

Tempest - Sydney 2020

I was asked by POetry Sydney if I would like to contribute to "Shakespeare's in our Living Room 2020" for the annual Shakespeare' Birthday Bash. Normally this is held on the Sunday closest to the Bard's recorded death date, which would have been Sunday, 26th April 2020, at the Shakespeare Hotel and presented by Poetry Sydney. This year we're doing some remote things and this is probably my favourite of all the Bards work.

Peter Roads

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