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Cottonmouth plays host to the glisteningly new publication from Love Is My Velocity, First Page, this August. Sending their words airborne are contributors Kate-Anna Williams, Tristan Fidler, Anna Dunhill, Matthew Giles, Katie Lenanton, Jessyca Hutchens, Rebecca Giggs and Josh Fontaine.

Musical support this month comes at you in triumvirate in the form of Lil Leonie Lionheart, Rabbit Island and Craig McElhinny (Eleventh He Reaches London)

Cottonmouth featuring First Page takes place on Wednesday August 13 at Bar 459 in the back of the Rosemount Hotel, 459 Fitzgerald St, North Perth. (NOTE this is a different night to the normal Thursday). Doors open at 7 pm for open mic registration and the night kicks off at 8 pm. $5 for all the bright blather from some of Perth's best wordsmiths. Bring your best typewriter hands and your hungry ears. The First Page Anthology will be available to buy on the night.

Attention Shoppers.

Are you in the market for fictions? Compelled by stories in the mouseprint on cans of bamboo shoots? Nutritional-poetry in the ink stains on egg shells? It's time to drop your groceries in the aisles and trolley over to Cottonmouth VI.

Cottonmouth night VI is happening on Thursday, July 10 at the usual haunt - Bar 459 in the back of the Rosemount Hotel. As a gift for our sixth birthday (yes! It's been six months! We're street-legal!) Cottonmouth has inherited the most beautiful sky-blue typewriter, set with inks of many colours and consistencies. It hungers for your touch.

Cottonmouth VI sees wordsmiths Cassie Lynch, Kevin Gillam, Annamaria Weldon, Jay Pruyn, JJ DeCeglie, Martin McKenzie-Murray and Crispin Wellington take to the stage. Claire French and Gemma Willing perform new words from dramaturgy. Paul Carter, author of the fulsomely titled "Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse" and "This Is Not a Drill" tells evocative stories with jungle themes.

Adam Trainer makes music to bracket the set. This is truly an exciting line-up.

Doors open at 7 pm for open mic registration and the night kicks off with Mr. Trainer at 8 pm. Gather your dairy goods and perishables, bring $5 worth of change, and meet us there. Shoppers, it's the end of the financial year and poems and fables are CHEAP at Cottonmouth!

Rich seams of lit bubble up through the ground and at Cottonmouth we've got our picks at the ready. Get set for a geyser of oily fictions in June.

Hear poems from the masterful South African/Australian/Japanese-resident John Mateer, author of the recently published 'Elsewhere' collection as well as thinner volumes Loanwords, Barefoot Speech and Burning Swans (amongst others). Jimmy Jack (The Black Balloon) reads from his latest screenplay - a zombie rockumentary. Kate-Anna Williams delivers flash, palm-sized fictions. Braydon Harriss will tell some crime stories with a guitar. SalamandaStrong love dragons and trapdoors and cellophane lights. Gabrielle Everall, author of "Dona Juanita and the Love of Boys" will dive into the lush of her recent work. Patrick Pittman and Simon Cox will orate their fictions and poems.

Music bookends provided by Stina (robot waltzes to make you cry and kiss strangers).

Doors open at 7pm for open mic registration, with Stina kicking off the night at 8pm. $5.00 entry fee. Last month was a sell-out event, so be sure to get down early, as we all get very sad when he have to tell you that you can't come in.

Cottonmouth V takes place at the Rosemount's Bar 459, cnr. of Angove and Fitzgerald Streets on Thursday, June 12. Doors open at 7pm for open mic registration and the night kicks of with music by Stina at 8 pm. Bring us your zines, buttons and chapbooks, bring us your ears.

Shake the dust. Carnivorous wordsmiths do descend from the North carrying heavy hocks of text and the sharpest pencils. Vegetarian journal-keepers are rising from the South with their rattle gun airborne verses. And somewhere in the middle the omnivorous poets protect a Kashmir tract where cottonmouth children play in the thick grass. Word wars are afoot.

Where better to avoid the shrapnel than at a Cottonmouth Night? Speaking in radioactive tongues at Cottonmouth IV are Nandi Chinna, Luke Ryan, Jason Mills, Bec Giggs, The Ponies' K, Nathan Christian-Savage, Mathas, Gosia Basinska and Christina Chau with projections by Gian Manik. Mr. Sean Pollard (New Rules for Boats) bookends our program with two, yes two, sets of music. The typewriter wall soaks up more of your excellent words and prepares to write its Great Australian Novel. The open mic tests all your old diary entries and film scripts. We may well play another 1950s film about urban planning over your heads. Iron your flak jacket! Prepare the turrets! Get ready for the 8TH OF MAY!

Cottonmouth IV takes place at the Rosemount's Bar 459, cnr. of Angove and Fitzgerald Streets on Thursday, May 8. Doors open at 7pm for open mic registration and the night kicks of with music by Mr. Pollard at 8 pm. Bring us your zines, buttons and chapbooks, bring us your ears.

Cottonmouth Two went down at the 459 Bar on Thursday March 13, and boy did we have some fun. More than 100 of you mouthers packed the little place to its rafters. 

Thanks to all of our performers, and to Gregory Taw's Ghost of 29 Megacycles for providing the evening with perfect dronescape.

There's no way we're not coming back to inflict more spoken word on you next month, so head down to the Rosie on Thursday April 10 and be ready to type something for the pegboard.

If you'd like to perform at a future Cottonmouth, please get in touch with us and let us know just exactly how you roll.

All photos from the night were generously provided by Tim Davis. Rummage through the other entries for audio and video from our performers.

Inky Little Egg Teeth

There are oily parts in this screen. Can you see them? Where the words don't take grip, where the pixels slide off? That's where Cottonmouth II's performers are waiting. In the white-space, with their hot words pursed in their hot mouths. Preparing an atomic flash-over of utterances. Better bring your lead vests. Or vests of any kind. We love your vests.

Cottonmouth II sees words overspill Jeffrey-Jay Fowler, Patrick Pittman, Dosh Luckwell, Tiffany Barton, Aletia K Artemis, Jessyca Hutchens, Martin McKenzie-Murray, Maitland Schnaars, Lily Chan and Byron Bard (amongst others) at the Rosemount's Bar 459 on Thursday, March 13. There will be The Ghost of 29 Megacycles taking form in Mr. Gregory Taw and Co. A real, actual poltergeist come to shake you! There will be literary biscuits. There will be an adamantine Tomas Ford causing trouble. There will be zines and keyboards. Do you know of any better reason to break out the vest?

$5 at the door for all the words you could reasonably digest. 7:00 pm for open mic registration, smallish dancing and drinks. The Ghost of 29 Megacycles will corporealise at 8:00 pm. Come down off the roof, listen and speak with us.