Episode 7 - The National Finals
The 2017 Australian Poetry Slam National Final is here! The culmination of a number of nationwide heats has arrived, with some of Australia's best spo...
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Tegan Nicholls joins Word Travels on a quest across NSW, meeting young slam poets at the crossroads of race, access and recognition. From small country towns to beachside writer’s festivals, Tegan and the Word Travels crew road trip across the state recording stories, rehearsals and conversations all leading up to one big moment: the National Slam Finals at the Sydney Opera House. But this series isn’t about winners and losers, it’s about what it’s like to be a dream-big poet in small-town Australia. Word Travels Fast is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.
Episode 6 - The NSW Finals
The competition is heating up at the 2017 Australian Poetry Slam's NSW State Final. Hosted at The State Library of NSW by the 2016 national champion, ...
Episode 5 - Albury Writes Around
The crew are in Albury this week and taking part in the creative hub that is the Write Around the Murray Festival. Here, they meet an author who has h...
Episode 4 - Nowra's Poetry Rhapsody
With performances of Bohemian Rhapsody and viral video star librarians, the Nowra library is not your usual library. This uniqueness is reflected in t...
Episode 3 - Gosford Speaks Up
In Gosford, the crew holds a poetry slam at a hip, little cafe called The Loungeroom. During the heat a range of topics are raised by the performers, ...
Episode 2 - ‘Kempsey is kind of like a zombie apocalypse, but it’s one you can overcome’
The crew heads to regional Australia and encounter some of the restrictions that slam poetry faces in country towns. Controversy arises when a Byron c...
Episode 1 - 'All performance poetry is doggerel'
In a guesthouse in Byron Bay, the crew overhear an interstate festival director declaring Slam poets aren’t real writers… and that their work is “shit...