Welcome to our Yarra Valley Spoken Word Community.
The original custodians of the Yarra Valley, the Wurundjeri people, didn’t write. Their wisdom travelled through time in songs, stories and dance. We acknowledge this land’s indigenous ancestors and elders, oral historians of the dream-time. This poetry gathering sits on the shoulders of countless generations of wisdom keepers and spoken-word story tellers.
We meet at The Dreaming Space Academy at Yarra Valley ECOSS, Wesburn on the second Friday of the month and welcome you to join us and share your musings.
Ours is a space to share the power of the spoken word, be inspired by our community of artists and learn to write and share life’s depths through this life changing art form.
Families are welcome until after supper, we have a feature artist each month and then Open Mic.
Yarra Valley Spoken Word – Friday 14th November 2025
Please join us in welcoming a new Feature Poet into our community in November!
Russell Boyle lives in Balwyn North, Melbourne and was on our mailing list but requested to unsubscribe. I politely asked him his reason and he stated that as he is retired he only attends free spoken word events. I let him know that our evening is now by donation only and accessible to all and he replied thanks… I then clicked on his link to his poetry and saw how prolific he is and I really loved his poem House by the Sea. I asked him if he’d be interested in being a Feature Poet and the team agreed he’d be great and so here we are!
Kismet! Synchronicity! Co-inside-ences! Fate! Magic! Faerie…
Russell Boyle Bio:
Russell Boyle started writing poetry in 1999. He has written five anthologies, each one published as a PDF, that can be purchased online using secure PayPal checkout and supplied by email. Some poems in his first three volumes have adult themes and contain sexual language. His published oeuvre comprises 205 poems. He recently retired from his much-loved lifetime career in secondary mathematics. Since then, his primary focus has been poetry, performing at more than one hundred and forty open-mic events around Melbourne. His preference is to recite, rather than read his poems, as this better enables him to connect with the audience. What he loves most about poetry is the ability to convey powerful, emotional themes with just a few words.
House by the Sea
https://russellboyle.com/housebythesea.mp3
Entry and Supper is by donation, we never turn people away!
Suggested Donation:
$15 Full / $10 Concession
$5 Supper, $5 Chai
6pm – Doors open/Music
6.15 – Poetry workshop & open mic
7.00 – Dinner
7.30 – Feature poet (12yrs+)
8.00 – Open mic
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