Tom actually performed two other excellent pieces, but we ran out of tape. So it goes. You should definitely check him out and buy his book though.
Results tagged “perform” from Cottonmouth
John Mateer's work has been variously described as 'inquisitorial' and 'as much at the frontier of language as at the frontier of a psyche', 'finely tuned' & 'powerfully intense', his poetry has received international attention. Born in Johannesburg, Mateer has published 5 books including poetry and travel writing. Elsewhere, his latest book, collects poems written in South Africa, Japan, the US & Mexico. He now lives in Perth.
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Jimmy Jack AKA Jimmy the Exploder wrote screenplays for the feature films The Black Balloon and Five Guys Named Moe. He will read an excerpt from his current screenplay The Zombies: sex, brains & rock'n'roll.
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Patrick Pittman fashions zeroes and ones into a variety of shapes, depending on passing clouds of mood and flitting interest. These include words of fiction and words of reportage, radio broadcasts, blogs, successful businesses, many thousands of websites, databases and strange pieces of software, glorious Gantt charts, ridiculous art projects and far too many long, verbose emails. When asked what he does for a living, he usually shrugs and lets someone else answer the question. He supposes he is some form of bitsmith.
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Kate-Anna Williams is not a very interesting person. In her final year of a fine arts course, she works with text, using language as subject matter as well as a medium. In her spare time Kate-Anna writes very small stories, generally detailing her own neurosis. In 2008 she has been working on a chapter for the publication First Page.
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Byron Bard is a poet, playwright, novelist, visual artist, martial artist, and genius. When not basking in the glory of his renaissance masculinity, he gazes wistfully at the night sky.
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Gabrielle Everall has published Dona Juanita and the love of boys which is for sale at both Cottonmouth and Planet Books. She has performed at BDO, Overload, NYWF, Emerging Writer's Festival, Putting on an Act. She writes erotic poetry and prose.
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Polish born, Australian singer, musician and songwriter, Gosia Basinska has been writing and playing music for 14 years. After some time in girl rock bands, she moved onto other projects including fronting the original band Smitten, playing drums and singing for Ten Speed Racer, and working closely with Allan Boyd in Freebase as vocalist and Mitey Co as guest vocalist.
More recently her music projects include: recording an album that is currently being mixed by Mikael Hakkarainen and mastered by Esa Santonen in Finland, working collaboratively with musicians from the UK, Italy on small projects and also with musicians from New-Zealand on an album called Dhialogue, singing Jazz at La Tropicana Cafe and integrating music into the Elegant Pedlars' performances.
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Christina Chau - lover of ponies and crabs but unfortunately one of them doesn't make it in her story. Gian Manik is currently teaching and making around town, projecting complements for Christina tonight.
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K. I make a zine called The Ponies. The launch party for Edition 10 is May 23rd at Spectrum. I also made a side-project zine called "Letters to my Exes" where I wrote a letter to every person I've ever been with - things I remember about them, things I learnt about them, things I hate about them. I'll be reading from that.
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Luke Ryan is an occasional student, recurrent man of leisure and part-time cancer patient. Luke likes to think that he's putting the 'can' into cancer, although he takes no responsibility for the 'cer' part. Either way, his performance has nothing to do with cancer, but he figured he'd just slot that in there to butter you up a little.
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Nandi Chinna is a Fremantle based writer and performer. Her poetry has been widely published in journals and anthologies and has been broadcast on RTRFM, 6PR and Radio National. Her short stories 'Ralph' and 'Ink Stained Fingers' were performed in London as part of the web based installation 1001 nights, by performance artist Barbara Cambell. Nandi also works as an actor in theatre, and toured Ireland in 2007 with the show 'Three Women.' She co-ordinates VOICEBOX a monthly poetry and performance event at La Tropicana Cafe in Fremantle. WA. Her first collection of poetry 'Our Only Guide is Our homesickness' was published in the Five Islands Press New Poets publishing program in 2007. She is currently writing a Master of Arts in poetry at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia.
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Jason Mills is the title given to the supernatural being, who, in mainstream religions, is believed to be a powerful, evil entity and the tempter of humankind. Jason is commonly associated with heretics, infidels, and other unbelievers. Many other religions have a trickster or tempter figure that is similar to Jason. Modern conceptions of him include the concept that he symbolizes humans' own lower nature or sinfulness. Jason has also been used to explain why people hold beliefs that are considered to be false or sinful... he's currently performing poetry until his telemarketing career takes off.
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Jeffrey Jay Fowler was the featured performer at Cottonmouth in March.
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