All the way from the middle of outback Australia, Laurie May is a resistance poet challenging societal norms and perspectives on poverty. Following a successful spoken word debut at Woodford Folk Festival, Laurie May has stories to share, rants to rave and truths to lay down.
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Tourettes makes rap music for the broken-hearted and poetry for illiterates. His work is a celebration of the absurd beauty of 21st century capitalism. Poems and rap songs, odes to idealism, gallows humor, working class pride and the cancer of convenience. His main influences are books, films, sandwiches and love songs. Everything in his life revolves around words. This passion has lead him around the world, seen him win poetry slams and MC battles, release four critically acclaimed albums, play support for people he once idolized and have writing published in everything from Vice magazine to New Zealand Literary journal, Landfall.
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Randi Janelle is on an extended OE in NZ, and is pretty happy about that considering she didn't know what an OE was before leaving the U.S. She's fallen pretty hard for performance poetry the last few years, and has participated in several Wellington slams, even winning a couple. She's off to tour in Australia and the U.S. Her chapbook is titled, Made with Love, Living, and Chocolate and looks suspiciously like a Whittaker's chocolate bar. She's a dreamer supreme and wants to help others realise theirs. One day she'll finish her novel. It's brilliant, you'll see. Also, check out her website that is new and attempts to compile what has been a passionate love affair with creativity and exclamation points: randijanelle.com
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