Poetry Idol - Success!
Published 1 year ago in My life.Last night myself, Nebs, our respective boyfriends Nick and Garrad and our friend Brenden went to the last Poetry Idol for the year at the St Kilda Library.
I performed 2 short poems, “Ceiling” and “Thirst”, Nick did a funny, punchy poem called “A Disclaimer”, Nebs did what I think is her best poem, “getting Got”, and Garrad performed one of his poems about a character from his story, which I think was called the “Dark Side of Pi”.
It was the usual amount of nerve-wracking, but thanks to many layers of makeup, no one could tell I was literally blushing myself to death.
Anyway, cutting to the chase here, after the wine and cheese, it came time for the winners to be announced… Nick and I were in the top 10, so we get our poems published in the Paradise Anthology, and Nebs got in the top 3, so she gets her poem published in the anthology AND got $100. Well done Nebs!!
But it was wonderful standing up in front of all those people with my man and my twin and a bunch of other cool poets and actually winning… I mean, I know it’s nice just to have other people hear my poetry, but by gee, it sure is nice to win too.
And afterwards we went for drinks with Michael Crane, the guy who organises and comperes Poetry Idol. Needless to say, Nebs bought the drinks.
Now we have a paid “gig” reading our poems at the launch of the Paradise Anthology in February. Yaaay!!
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How cool is this !! Congratulations to you all. Actually, I was surprised when I happened to hear from Nebsy about your success, that you hadn’t posted it here……….never thinking that the nook jungle drums could possibly let us down. Nebsy seemed impressed with the wine and cheese !!! I’d love to read the poems on here if its not too much trouble.