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Spoken Word
by Di Cousens, Indrani Perera, Tina Giannoukos, and Waffle IronGirl
Spoken Word is a half hour program dedicated to poetry and performance. We provide a grassroots platform on 3CR for the poetry community, making connection between live performance, printed literature and radio listeners. Our guests are contemporary poets who read and discuss their works. Spoken Word is inherently eclectic and gives voice to diverse forms of poetic expression.
Episodes
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Simone Pereira on social constructs, personas and performance
‘You go to be gotten - they won’t be forgotten’- from Go Getter by Simone Pereira In this episode of 3CR's Spoken Word show which aired on Thursday 15th October 2026, you will hear Simone Pereira talk about self expression, reflective space and freedom. Simone Pereira is a Dutch Burgher Sri…
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Speaking with Steve Smart
Seve Smart talks about his early days in the poetry scene as well as what he's doing now. Interview by Michael Reynolds.
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Koraly Speaks Up Part 1
Di Cousens talks to Koraly Dimitriadis about her new book, That's What They Do.
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Paris Rosemont on poetry, process and performance
‘A thirsting fish, I thrash inside my bowl’from My Dearest Darling Everything by Paris Rosemont. In this episode of 3CR's Spoken Word show which aired on Thursday 17th September 2026, you will hear Paris Rosemont talk about quitting the day job, being an extra on a studio backlot, and dedicating...
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Talking to Amy Bodossian
Michael Reynolds talks to performance poet and poetry teacher, Amy Bodossian.
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Omar Musa Encore
Omar Musa is a Malaysian-Australian author, poet, rapper and visual artist. His most recent novel, Fierceland, has just won the Miles Franklin Award. This is an encore broadcast of an interview with him back in 2014 soon after the release of his first novel, Here Come the Dogs. Omar recites his...
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Adibeh Abdo-Attia on Poetry Across Languages: Syriac, Arabic and English
In this interview, Adibeh Abdo-Attia speaks with Tina Giannoukos about writing poetry in Syriac and Arabic and the relationship between language, poetry and faith. She discusses spiritual and erotic love in her poetry and the importance of maintaining her connection to both languages. She also...
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Barry Dickins Remembers Ronald Ryan
Barry Dickins (6 November 1949 – 13 July 2026) was an Australian author, artist, actor, educator and journalist, probably best known for his historical dramas and his reminiscences about growing up and living in working class Melbourne.In this interview with Di Cousens, recorded in 2016, he talks...
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Barry Dickins Remembers Ronald Ryan
Barry Dickins (6 November 1949 – 13 July 2026) was an Australian author, artist, actor, educator and journalist, probably best known for his historical dramas and his reminiscences about growing up and living in working class Melbourne.In this interview with Di Cousens, recorded in 2016, he talks...
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Reading Old English Riddles Part 2
Robert Di Napoli talks to Di Cousens about his new translation of the Old English riddles found in the tenth century Book of Exeter. Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.This is the second part of a two part conversation.See: https://robertdinapoli.com/the-dark-glass-a-book-by-robert-dinapoli/
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Reading Old English Riddles Part 1
Robert Di Napoli talks to Di Cousens about his new translation of the Old English riddles found in the tenth century Book of Exeter. Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.This is the first part of a two part conversation.See: https://robertdinapoli.com/the-dark-glass-a-book-by-robert-dinapoli/
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Petr Malapanis: Writing the Unspeakable
Born in Melbourne, Petr has been writing for over 20 years. She has had work published in the anthologies Mother Lode (Poetica Christi Press, 2003) and Set Free (Poetica Christi Press, 2004), and in the journal Etchings (vol. 4, 2008). Petr’s work also appears in the coffee table book, Reflecting...
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Poetry That Sounds Like All of Us with Es Foong
In this episode of 3CR's Spoken Word show which aired on Thursday 16th July 2026, you will a recording of a live broadcast featuring Es Foong talking about the Sonic Poetry Festival. You’ll also hear Es and host, Indrani Perera, swapping poems in a poetic conversation or a poetry exchange of…
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Chatting With Eddy Burger
Eddy Burger talks about his recent publications and shows with Michael Reynolds.
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After War With Dzenana Vucic
Bosnian-Australian poet talks to Di Cousens about her new book, After War.
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Amanda Johnson on Controlled Burn
A. Frances Johnson is an award-winning writer, artist and recovering academic. Her most recent poetry collection is Controlled Burn (Puncher and Wattmann, 2025). She has published four collections of poetry, a novel and a monograph, Australian Fiction as Archival Salvage (Brill, 2015). In 2020…
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Talking With Jason Voss
Michael Reynolds talks to poet and gig organiser, Jason Voss.
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After War with Dzenana Vucic
Bosnian-Australian poet, Dzenana Vucic, talks about her new collection of poetry, After War. Interviewed by Di Cousens.
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Caroline Williamson -- On Carboniferous
Caroline Williamson has been living in Melbourne, Australia, since 1990. She was born in London and spent school holidays with her grandparents in Merthyr Tydfil as a child. Her debut collection, Time Machines (Vagabond Press, 2023), was Highly Commended in the 2023 5Islands Poetry Prize for a...
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Sasha de Motte on inspiration, intuition and authenticity.
‘I caressed my future todaybut its cheeks held no time’- from Interstellar by Sasha de Motte In this episode of 3CR's Spoken Word show which aired on Thursday 21st May 2026, you will hear poet Sasha de Motte talk about identity, authenticity and intuition. Sasha de Motte (they/she) is a writer…
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Maria Van Neerven's Two Tongues
Maria Van Neerven's first full length collection, Two Tongues, is published by the University of Queensland Press. Described by Maxine Beneba Clarke as 'a stunning, masterful debut', Maria is a First Nations' poet and she reflects on the legacy of colonisation and racism and the aftermath of...
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Maria Van Neerven's Two Tongues
Maria Van Neerven's first full length collection, Two Tongues, is published by the University of Queensland Press. Described by Maxine Beneba Clarke as 'a stunning, masterful debut', Maria is a First Nations' poet and she reflects on the legacy of colonisation and racism and the aftermath of...
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Grant Caldwell on Haiku Part One
Grant talks about his book, The Soundless Sound.
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Madeleine Dale on Winning the Five Islands Prize for a First Book of Poetry
Madeleine Dale is a poet and researcher from Brisbane/Meanjin. She holds first-class honours and a Masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of Queensland, where she is currently completing her PhD. Her work has been published in Westerly, Cordite, Meanjin, and Best of Australian...
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Poetry as Medicine - Dementia and Delicious Questions
‘I give myself permission to go outside’from On the First Day of Autumn by Jason Allen-Paisant In this episode of 3CR's Spoken Word show which aired on Thursday 16th April 2026, you will hear UK poet, Deb Alma talk about The Poetry Pharmacy.The Poetry Pharmacy is a UK-based bookseller, with three...
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The Millennium Poets Return
Eddy Burger and Joel O'Connor talk about the new book, Millennium Poets Two. This is a new anthology which revisits the poets writing at the turn of the millennium and presents their contemporary work.
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On a feminist poetics -- Marion May Campbell
Marion May Campbell's novels include Lines of Flight (1985), Not Being Miriam (1989), Prowler (1999), Shadow Thief (2006), and konkretion (2013).She has also published the cross-genre collection Fragments from a Paper Witch (Salt, 2008), an experimental memoir The Man on the Mantelpiece (UWA...
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Alex Creece on Collage, Reclamation and the Profane
‘like acommercial mirage selling an over-lit dream’- from James Joyce’s Fart Fetish by Alex Creece. In this episode of 3CR's Spoken Word show which aired on Thursday 19th March 2026, you will hear poet Alex Creece talk about collage, reclamation and the profane. This episode has a warning for...
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Spoken Word - Festival of Surrealisms 2026
In this show we are hearing from poets and performers from the Festival of Surrealisms, which will be on 14th and 15th March at Temperance Hall in South Melbourne, midday to 8.30pm of each day. Discover Melbourne’s most pioneering independent poets, theatre makers, comics, puppeteers, filmmakers...
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Discovering Tanka
Rodney Williams is a tanka poet from Gippsland. Tanka is a five line form of Japanese poetry that predates the haiku. Rodney talks about what makes a tanka and looks at old and new poems, including some of his own. He is a contributing editor of the poetry journal Catchment, Poetry of Place…
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Marion May Campbell on feminism and poetry
Marion May Campbell's novels include Lines of Flight (1985), Not Being Miriam (1989), Prowler (1999), Shadow Thief (2006), and konkretion (2013).She has also published the cross-genre collection Fragments from a Paper Witch (Salt, 2008), an experimental memoir The Man on the Mantelpiece (UWA...
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Amanda Collins on art, music, life and death.
‘one blind spot is all forgetting takes’- from One Last Thing by Amanda Collins. In this episode of 3CR's Spoken Word show which aired on Thursday 19th February 2026, you will hear poet Amanda Collins talk about art, music, life and death.Amanda Collins is a poet, death doula, author and…
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The Sufi Songs of Yari Sahib
Di Cousens talks to Peter Friedlander about his new book, Pearls of Light. This is a translation of the Sufi-Sant songs of the seventeenth century Indian mystic, Yari Sahib. Translated with Harry Eveling and published by Manohar publications.
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Benjamin Theolonius Sanders (IQ) talks about sport, music, lineages and the voice as an instrument.
‘a round of silencewhere the voice of our oceansshore into one song’- from Please my dear neighbourby Benjamin Theolonius Sanders (IQ). In this episode of 3CR's Spoken Word show which aired on Thursday 18th Decmber 2025, you will hear poet Benjamin Theolonius Sanders (IQ) talk about sport, music,...
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Spoken Word - Live with Dominique Hecq, Eugen Bacon & Oz Hardwick
On a lovely Tuesday evening on the 2nd of December, upstairs of the Alderman pub in Brunswick, Melbourne poets Dominique Hecq, Eugen Bacon, and visiting from York, Oz Hardwick collaborated on a special performance of their poetry. Today you will be listening to a partial recording from that evening.
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Grant Caldwell on Haiku Part 2
This is part 2 of a conversation with Grant Caldwell about his new book of haiku, The Soundless Sound, and about haiku in general.
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Jennifer Mackenzie -- The Wallace Line: A Poem.
Jennifer Mackenzie lives in Naarm/Melbourne, and is a poet and occasional editor and reviewer. The Wallace Line: A Poem follows her previoius collections, Borobudur and Navigable Ink, in a series of what has become the home of her Imagination, Indonesia. She has appeared at a number of…
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Sarah St James on performance, transitioning and representation
‘I found myself inside myself’- from Cluster B, to AuADHD by Sarah St James. In this episode of 3CR's Spoken Word show which aired on Thursday 20th November 2025, you will hear poet Sarah St James talk about performance, transitioning and representation.Content Warning: This episdoe contains...
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Spoken Word - Readings from The Big Verse: Readings Poetry Gala
Today (13 Nov 2025), we are presenting are sumptous smorgasbard of poems read by poets featured at the event - Big Verse: The Readings Poetry Gala. This is happening 14th November at 8pm at the All Nations Church in Carlton. Get your tickets from the Readings website.The blurb says Big Verse will...
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Grant Caldwell On Haiku Part 2
This is part 2 of a conversation with Grant Caldwell about his new book of haiku, The Soundless Sound, and about haiku in general.
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Di Cousens on poetry, photography and remembering Judith Rodriguez
Di Cousens OAM is a poet and photographer based in Melbourne. Past poetry publications include Days Pass Without Name, Free Text Space, House Red and The Freedom to Be. She is also the author of academic articles and a book in Tibetan studies. Her poetry has been published in journals and...
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George Vassilacopoulos on Ashpoems: When Poetry and Philosophy Meet -- Part Two
George Vassilacopoulos was born in Greece and migrated to Australia in 1974. He taught philosophy at La Trobe University, and has published books and articles on (European) philosophy, Indigenous sovereignty, and (Greek Australian) history. Ashpoems (re.press, 2025) is his fifteenth poetry...
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Lynette Natasha on dualities, not-belonging, family and food.
‘where the lazy susan spins tirelesslycarrying the love you put on plates’- from Photograph by Lynette Natasha In this episode of 3CR's Spoken Word show which aired on Thursday 16 October 2025, you will hear poet Lynette Natasha talk about politics, performance and playwriting. During the…
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Grant Caldwell's Soundless Sound Part 1
Grant Caldwell talks to Di Cousens about his new book of haiku, The Soundless Sound. This is Part 1 of 2 interviews.
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George Vassilacopoulos on Ashpoems: When Poetry and Philosophy Meet -- Part One
George Vassilacopoulos was born in Greece and migrated to Australia in 1974. He taught philosophy at La Trobe University, and has published books and articles on (European) philosophy, Indigenous sovereignty, and (Greek Australian) history. Ashpoems (re.press, 2025) is his fifteenth poetry...
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Maree Gladwin on languages, women in science and lesbian feminist poets.
‘I am her beloved carrion.’- from Vulture my love by Maree Gladwin. In this episode of 3CR's Spoken Word show which aired on Thursday 18 September 2025, you will hear poet Maree Gladwin talk about writing poems in a second language, teaching poetry, women in science, ecology and lesbian feminist...
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Peter Bakowski's Necessary Wonder
Di Cousens talks to Peter Bakowski about his new book, Necessary Wonder.
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Robbie Coburn on "The Foal in the Wire" -- a verse novel
Robbie Coburn is a poet and author of the young adult verse novel The Foal in the Wire (Lothian/Hachette Australia, 2025). His poetry collections are Ghost Poetry (Upswell, 2024), And I Could Not Have Hurt You (Kiddiepunk, 2023), The Other Flesh (UWAP, 2019) and Rain Season (Picaro Press, 2013).…
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Hayley Ricketson on playwriting, politics and performance.
‘A ceasefire breaks like a paper chainthey killed a forest to make.’- from Crisis Talks by Hayley Ricketson. In this episode of 3CR's Spoken Word show which aired on Thursday 21 August 2025, you will hear poet Hayley Ricketson talk about politics, performance and playwriting.Hayley Ricketson is a...
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The Mettle of Anne-Marie Te Whiu
Di Cousens talks to Anne-Marie Te Whiu about her new book Mettle, published by the University of Queensland Press.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Spoken Word is a half hour program dedicated to poetry and performance. We provide a grassroots platform on 3CR for the poetry community, making connection between live performance, printed literature and radio listeners. Our guests are contemporary poets who read and discuss their works. Spoken Word is inherently eclectic and gives voice to diverse forms of poetic expression.
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Di Cousens, Indrani Perera, Tina Giannoukos, and Waffle IronGirl
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