Spoken Word

Thursday 9:00 – 9:30am

In English

Spoken Word is a half hour program dedicated to poetry & performance. We provide a grassroots platform on 3CR for the poetry community, making connection between live performance, printed literature & radio listeners. Our guests are contemporary poets who read & discuss their works. Spoken Wordis inherently eclectic & gives voice to diverse forms of poetic expression.

The inaugural broadcast of 3CR’s Spoken Word was on Thursday 21 May 2009. The original team of presenters were Rhonda Jankovic, Santo Cazzati, Peter Goodyear & Gerard Watkins. Peter & Gerard have since found other ventures but have forever left their contributions to Spoken Word. The beautiful voice of Gerard Watkins can still be heard in the introduction of the program along with Mojave by Antonio Carlos Jobim. In July 2010, Koraly Dimitriadis joined the presenters bringing her vibrant energy to the program.

These are a selection of keywords or phrase descriptors to provide you with a hint of our unique presentation styles…

Rhonda: formal, involved, elegant, inquisitive, informed, measured, perceptive, contemplative, lover of the lexicon, impish & wry

Santo: colourful, brazen, intimate, iconoclastic, ironic, round, modernist, meditative, talkative, musical aesthetic & dissecting

Koraly: challenge me, confront me, break the boundaries, there are no rules, the English language does not exist, local live music, vocalize the silenced / uncover the hidden, political or emotional / serenade & romanticize me & I love a good love poem

David Vakalis is our photographer. His skills shine on in the “Perpetual History Portrait” displayed on this webpage.

We invite you to join us & our guests every Thursday at 9 in the morning to enjoy exciting, insightful & interesting poetic works on Spoken Word.

Testimonials

“Spoken Word is an inspirational forum, showcasing many styles & forms of poetry, voiced by Australian poets from diverse backgrounds. The program has an international audience & I am delighted to be included, both as a member of such an audience & as a performing poet.”
Avril Bradley.

“A wonderful opportunity to present my poetry in dialogue with a fellow poet & empathetic interviewer.” Marietta Elliott-Kleerkoper.

“I have read my poetry on local radio before, but the Spoken Word program was a unique opportunity to discuss my poetic process in some depth & to present a range of poems…. I have really enjoyed hearing other interviews where the same careful & thoughtful style towards the poet allows their multi-facets to shine... but perhaps its most valuable function is to take the pleasure & liveliness of this art form to an audience who may never get to a live performance.” Susan Fealy.

“Spoken Word on 3CR isn’t a publicity factory or a babble of trivia. It’s smart, humane, funny, provocative & never predictable. We talk as of poetry matters in the real world, & therefore it does.” Andy Jackson.

“3CR’s Spoken Word program puts the revolution back into words.” Brigitte Lewis

“Spoken Word is a weekly opportunity to be inspired by insightful conversations exploring poetry & language.” Marian Spires.