This week Perth Poetry Club welcomes poet and midwife GEOFF FOX, fresh from Melbourne's SPOKENHAGEN Sustainability Slam.
Geoff will do one set of his own words and one set introducing and linking poems of birthing and motherhood written and performed by local poets Coral Carter, Deanne Leber, Janet Jackson and Maureen Sexton.
Plus open mike. 2-4pm at The Moon, 323 William Street, Northbridge. Everyone welcome -- come and listen.
Geoff describes himself thus:
'Geoff Fox is a performance poet and convenor of the Melbourne Believer Slam. He works as a midwife and loves the idea of spiritual midwifery, but finds spirituality easier to practice in poetry than in hospitals. Out of disgust with the warmongers of the noughties he created the still work in progress www.ninety-ninenames.com as an act of solidarity with the victims of islamophobia and in collaboration with a range of Indonesian voices. Since forces like George War Cur Bush were too strong for most individuals, Geoff concluded that the best thing a man can do in response is to try to be a better midwife. "Midwife" originally means "with woman".'

Kaitlyn West (aka Kaitlyn Plyley) started writing poetry when she was about five, and for the next ten years most of her poems were about puppies, dolphins, or boys. Now, at 23, she’s still writing about boys, but she uses bigger words. Her poetry has been published in dotdotdash and AustralianReader.com. She also edits UWA’s Pelican magazine and tries to avoid ‘real work’. Check out her new blog:
Tomás Ford is probably best known in Perth poetry circles as the anarchic MC of monthly spoken word event Cottonmouth (
MAGS WEBSTER was born in the south west of England and grew up in Derbyshire. She came to Australia in 2003. Mags has been writing poetry and short stories for about a decade, and has had some work published, including three poems in the anthology of emerging writers The Weighing of the Heart (Sunline Press, Perth 2007). A member of the Out of the Asylum Writers’ group since 2003, Mags won prizes in OOTA’s Spilt Ink short story competitions (2005 and 2008) and in last year’s poetry competition. She continues to ‘emerge’ and is currently working towards a collection of poetry.