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Lily Chan HELEN CHILD - SATIRICAL POET/COMEDIAN/MC
Helen writes all her own material and designs her own props, as she started out as a proffessional sculptor and painter for 6 years, before turning to writing and performing as therapy for an muscular illness. Now, Helen performs live, writes short plays, gives workshops on performance poetry and writing for performance and teaches drama to the elderly. Helen has also performed on RTR FM radio and Channel 31 CTV Perth and her poems have been published in numerous zines. Helen's performances include: character impersonations/stand-up, humorous poetry, songs, warped music and bad variety dance routines. Her best loved comedy characters are: Pauline Fartson, Traja Dee, Old Ma Bones, Dolly the Sex-doll Rights Activist and the Loggers Wife. Her newest characters are Corpspeare (Shakespeare's ghost) Helvis the Pelvis and Her Majesty the Queen. See website: http://www.helcomedy.com
Jenny de Garis
Raymond Grenfell
Janet Jackson
Chris Konrad
Brian Langley FRANCES MACAULAY FORDE
Wayne Pantall
Joyce Parkes Maureen Sexton
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aka "the antipoet" has been performing his acerbic, in-yr-face wordsmithery and organising radical community arts events since 1995. Published in paper zines and websites across the globe, the 'antipoet' has been a featured guest at many Australian Arts and Poetry festivals. A member of several Perth original bands and an Indymedia hack, Boyd is also a radio presenter on RTRFM. 
works at a law firm by day and dreams of poetry by night. Notebooks follow her in a steady stream of consciousness, and she is obsessed with stationary, art supplies, bookshops and art exhibitions. She was the Young Poet in Residence at Tom Collins House in 2006.
Helen Child is a humorous poet, MC and comediene, who's work is witty, satirical and black. Helen has performed as a head-line act at major WA festivals for the past 11 years, including featuring at the Albany Sprung Writers Festival 2006 and 2 successful solo shows for The WA Pride Festival (2001 and 2002). This year, Helen featured at the 2007 Overload Poetry Festival in Melbourne and featured on Melbourne's Channel 31 "Noise TV". 
has Masters degrees in literature and in creative writing, but believes that her game-keeper grandfather, who taught her as a toddler the language of the Surrey chalk hills, has been equally important in her publishing and winning poetry prizes. The Dance of Light, Jenny’s book of poems and photographs in response to nature and sculptures in the Melville Reserve of Piney Lakes, is due out for the Festival. Jenny has enjoyed running workshops for 16 years in art galleries, national parks and reserves, as well as by contract with bodies such as UWA Extension, Albany Summer School, and the UK National Arboretum at Westonbirt. If you would like her to lead a workshop for your group in the city or the bush she is happy to be contacted. For the 2005 WA Spring Poetry Festival, with the help of Di Lesley, Shelley Browning and Fiona de Garis, Jenny ran the first Perth Poetry Challenge. She also inaugurated the inspirational workshop called ArtEquate, which returned by popular request in 2006 and will be happening again this festival: a workshop in the Art Gallery of WA exploring the creative interactions between paintings and poetry.
AKA armed poet is a 21 year old word monger,activist, musician and scoundrel from Perth WA. Whilst keeping to a strict drug and alcohol regimen Ray writes to maintain a certain level of sanity in what he sees as the apocalyptic circus of Capitalism. In such a mono cultural backwater town such as Perth Ray feels that is necessary to resist cultural homogenization at all costs. To write is to resist. Blog: 
Since 1986 Janet has sculpted in English, seeking poems that work whether declaimed loudly or whispered in the mind. Never a closet poet, she has always written for an audience. She likes to recite to audiences wherever she finds herself. Janet is looking for a publisher for a collection. Her poems have appeared in various print media including Mattoid, BLAST, Marginata and The West Australian, and webzines including nthposition, Malleable Jangle and Hamilton Stone Review. Many of Janet's poems, and her two chapbooks 'In the church of my skull' (December 2005) and 'Listen' (September 2006), are on her website, Proximity. Get uncomfortably close at 
has lived in Western Australia his whole life with forty of those years in the hills around Perth. Father and mother were Austrian migrants who moved to WA in the 1950’s. He is married to a wonderful partner of twenty three years with four children aged from 14 - 22 years. It is at home in the hills with family that this heart resides. A varied life - first as a tradesman cabinet maker completing an apprenticeship with his father. Changed career and working for the last thirteen years in human services as a counsellor/educator/community development. Several articles published in journals to do with Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drug problems and education. He has poems published in Thirst, WetInk, Staples and in the online publications PixelPapers and Perigee.
born in Western Australia in 1940, is a retired technical teacher, who, while having had an interest in poetry for some considerable time originally confined his poetry to family and work related topics. Since about the year 2000 he has broadened his poetic interests. His poetry now includes contemporary lifestyle issues and also many poems about travelling and the ocean. While he has written poetry across a number of genres, the majority of his work has very strict and consistent rhyme and rhythm. He is a member of the Western Australian Bush Poets and Yarn Spinners Association, and has won a number of awards for his poetry. He performs regularly at WABP&YS events, both in the city and at a number of country festivals. He has self published a 40 page booklet of some of his poetry and hopes to have another on the go shortly. Go to 
Frances writes for page and screen and is very proud to be a member of the WA writing community. Her writing for children, film and poetry have been awarded and published in newspapers, magazines, books and on the net. A passionate supporter of those who write, she has been the usual host and facilitator of Poets Corner since 2005. Frances spent 14 glorious months dining on poetry and storytelling in Ireland before publishing her first book of poetry in 2003.
enjoys poetry at the earthy level of one Jolly Swagman spinning his yarn to another. Approaching 55 years of age in 2007, he’s been hooked on Bush Poetry for 5 years, and hopefully for the next 45. It’s a change from singing in 70’s rock bands, but he still enjoys the stage, and adapts his appropriate poems to music. His bush upbringing is largely what he draws upon, writing an average of one poem per month, for nearly four years. His poetry has been performed on air on the ABC Great Southern and on the South Coast Breakfast show, and he likes sharing the everyday ironies, subtleties, quirks and twists of life otherwise ignored. He manifests them into verse with local familiarity. Wayne lives in Victoria Park, WA and is an active committee member of the WA Bush Poets & Yarn Spinners, and this regular outlet prompts him to write and perform regularly. You can contact him on (08) 9362 3715 or mobile 0415 684 368 for appearances. 
has published poetry in Overland; the Weekend Australian Magazine; Westerly; The Phoenix Review; International Pen, London; the Journal of the Australian-Irish Heritage Association; the New England Review; Linq, “The Best Australian Poetry 2005" (UQP); among many other literary magazines, newspapers, journals, anthologies - in Australia, Great Britain, Finland, Canada, Germany and the USA.
Maureen is a freelance writer, poet, editor, photographer, digital media artist and event organiser. She has vast writer-in-the-community experience and has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Writing, which she completed at Edith Cowan University, with some of her studies undertaken at Murdoch University and Flinders University. She completed an intense four month mentorship (writing, researching, critiquing and workshopping of haiku for publication) with mentor, John Bird in 2007, and is currently the HaikuOz WA Regional Representative. She was a co-founder of WA Poets Inc, the annual WA Spring Poetry Festival, Creative Connections Art and Poetry exhibitions, and Walking on Water readings. Her poetry and haiku have been widely published internationally and nationally. She has also had success in national poetry competitions, and many of her short stories, articles and reviews have also been published. She is involved in organising local poetry and art exhibitions. She is the WA state co-ordinator for National Poetry Week 2007 and 2006. Maureen has been a regular guest reader at venues around Perth and Adelaide since 1995. She has also organised many readings in WA.