Poets and poetry on the second Tuesday of the winter months of June, July and August in the heart of Sydney. Are you coming?
Poetry Sydney partners with Since I Left You (SILY) to present a series of six poetry evenings featuring Sydney and NSW poets on the second Tuesday of the month from April - September, at a Sydney heritage venue located between three historical storehouses in the CBD.
The series name, pie in the sky poets is in the spirit of the Flying Pieman, William Francis King, who peddled his pies the streets of Sydney delivering impromptu public orations on the pies he had for sale and the politics of the day in the late nineteenth century. Known as the Flying Pieman he devised all manner of opportunities for public entertainment on the urban inner city pedestrian thoroughfares capturing the imagination of chroniclers and artists at the time in Sydney.[1]
This Tuesday night: pie in the sky poets | EAT . LIVE . FLY
Lisel Baddorek (MC)
Liesel is a Sydney based writer, director and performer. For 18 years she helmed independent theatre company Loose Canon Arts touting work to young audiences across Asia and the Middle East as well as making bespoke performance experiences for events and festivals. She continues to work across Cabaret, Theatre for Young Audiences and Opera.
Benjamin Dodds
Benjamin Dodds is a Sydney-based poet who grew up in the NSW Riverina. His work appears in journals, anthologies and newspapers and has been broadcast on Radio National. He was shortlisted for the 2021 Red Room poetry Fellowship. He is a proud public school teacher. Benjamin’s poetry collections are Regulator (2014) and Airplane Baby Banana Blanket (2020).
Carol Jenkins
Carol Jenkins' most recent publication is A Crooked Stile (2019) from Puncher & Wattman, who also published her previous two collections of poetry Fishing in the Devonian (2008) and Xn, 2013—both shortlisted for Premier’s prizes — and the fabulist Select Episodes from the Mr Farmhand Series. She has been a guest at the International Festival de la Poesie in Quebec, Sydney and Perth Writers Writers Festivals, organized Science Made Marvellous a national science poetry project, produced her own radio show and judged the Newcastle Poetry Prize. Her poems have been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Russian and French.
Phillip Ricketson
Phillip Ricketson is a lyricist on the Sydney and Melbourne music scenes for over 30 years as frontman to the Hoo Haas, Frank Sinatra’s Dog and Hucknee Pucknee. Phillip has perfected his unique take on Hillbilly Jazz, his heady twisted guitar, irreverent lyrics and comedic social commentary in which he performs.
Time: 6.30pm for 7pm -9.30pm Date: Tuesday 8 June 2021
Venue: Since I Left You (SILY)
Venue address: 338 Kent St, Sydney NSW 2000
Venue website: sinceileftyou.com.au
Ticketed: $15 includes a drink of choice TICKETS LINK HERE
Open readers / performers of poetry are welcome. Registrations are recommended.
Email: mail@poetrysydney.org
Facebook event: HERE
CALENDAR JULY and AUGUST:
Tuesday 13 July 2021
Tuesday 10 August 2021
The event is in association with the York Clarence Kent Laneways (YCKL). Ten small bar owners in the precinct area have banded together to put the venues on the inner city cultural map as part of the City of Sydney activation projects.
[1] The Brisbane courier 26.8.1873
Image of poets and performers include from left top right: Mohsen Soltany Zand; Louise Carter; Ivy Ireland; Vashti Hughes; Tug Dumbly; Ali Whitelock; Alana Hicks; Benito DiFonzo and Lex Marinos. Photographs courtesy of the artists. All rights reserved.
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