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November 15th 2017 by Scott-Patrick Mitchell

Soup by Scott-Patrick Mitchell

The Night Jar @ Sound Paper 2 (music by Brad Wallis) at Paper Mountain

This is the backing track for the poem him which appeared in Performance Poets: Fremantle Poets 3 (Fremantle Press, 2013) & featured in my debut solo spoken word show The Night Jar (WA Poets' Perth Poetry Festival [2013] // FringeWorld [2014]). This poem will be appearing in Puncher & Wattman's forthcoming poetry anthology release Contemporary Australian Poetry (2016). 

The poem itself is a rewrite of The Lord's Prayer as a queer love poem. It utilises the magic & power innate in hymn & prayer, subverting it to give validity to how love manifests - & thus consequently is expressed -  through individuals such as myself who identify as queer (N.B. i do not identify as 'gay' since 'queer' allows me to express my identify as a more liminal performative state, one which fluxes between inherent societal gender polarities) & part of the 'alphabet soup' that is the LGBTIQA community. 

Put simply, our love is just as mighty as any other expression of love. After all, love is just love, irrespective of the sociocultural context it finds itself inhabiting.  

This backing track was created using Looptastic Producer 3 for iOS. 

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him
for tim

out farther, stars are the 
art in heaven. hollow be the

sky that does not contain 
them. hello be the aim of 

an introduction. thine
winged 1ne, my heart is 

undone. you are worth every 
penny from above. give in 

& say let us go to bed
, for we need to undress

, for we need to undress
& press us against us

. it will lead us to 
temptation, which will

quiver an upheaval. for
i am your winged 1ne

, and our love will flower
song in the face of the

eternal. forever
endeavour to be a 

lover, a partner, a boy
, a man

. 


a kitten cacophony

THE 12 MINUTE MONOMYTH (an extract...

a spontaneous talking poem performed at POETRY OF PROMISE, December 2016.

the politics of pronouns as a performance poem

a poem to commentate all of the celebrity deaths that occurred in 2016 & the lessons we can learn from them. 

celebrity deathmatch

This poem appears in Tincture Journal #20

incomprehensia : an instruction sheet for post-verbal poetry

I will be well welcome when I come.   
Because I am coming.
Certainly I come having come.

from Stanzas in Meditation: Stanza LXXXIII by Gertrude Stein


I am a poet living in Perth, Western Australia. I am using SoundCloud to upload covers of poems i love, recordings of my own work plus experimental sessions of spoken word generation, the parameters changing in each instance but all of the sonics contributing to my postgraduate research at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) where i am a doctoral candidate on scholarship. My research topic? I am exploring the processes of how spoken word and performance poetry is written, and how those processes change from the page to the stage, with consideration given to how a spontaneous poem performed on stage and then transcribed to the page would differ to a work written and then edited through performance... and the permutation in-between. The crux of this  research is a 1ne man show of spoken word material. Each of the major sectional poems from this work are being approached as micro-projects in which I collaborate with another artist, be they a fashion designer, illustrator, musician or composer. I'm even collaborating with models... or rather the sound of  models walking. 

If you are interested in purchasing my poetry please visit Fremantle Press @ www.fremantlepress.com.au or PressPress @ www.presspress.com.au and now Black Rider Press @ www.blackriderpress.com through whom I will also be releasing a full recording of .the tricking post. which is my latest poetry collection to be released. 

Scott-Patrick Mitchell

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