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One of Australia’s premiere performance poets, David Hallett has been writing and performing his poetry since the mid-70’s. During the past 30 years David has developed an innovative, accessible, highly entertaining and original form of spoken word performance. |
He has performed and toured extensively in festivals, universities, schools, colleges and Writers’ Centres; from cafes to cabarets to conferences, radio, television and film.
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During the past 18 years David Hallett has
developed and managed two major spoken word venues on the North Coast of NSW:
Byron Bay’s ‘Writers at the Rails’ and Lismore’s ‘Live Poets!’ He also
established and features regularly with the performance troupe the ‘Stand Up
Poets’, together with S Sorrensen and Christine Strelan. |
David Hallett’s poetry is broadcast regularly on ABC-Radio 2NR, and his poetry has featured on Triple J and Radio National’s ‘Poetica’. David has also performed on ABC-TV’s ‘Sunday’ arts show, as well as ‘Bookchat’ and ‘Quantum’. David also featured in the ABC’s National Poetry Day show ‘Voices’, and his poetry featured prominently in the SBS documentary ‘Nearly Normal Nimbin’.
As one reviewer wrote of his performance: “This is not poetry to be savoured in wistful repose. This is stand up knock down stuff to split your sides in laughter or rage. Sexual politics, social politics, political politics; this is entertainment that jumps from the page to the stage, from the comedic to the satiric to the deadly serious”.
In 1991 he published “War and Peaces: Nimbin Performance Poems 1990-1991”.
In 2002 David published “Dante’s Café (Performance Poems 1992-2001)”.
In 2000 the National Australia Day Council presented David with an achievement award for his cultural/arts contribution.
In 2003 he was commissioned by the ABC to compose the poem celebrating it’s 70th anniversary, “ABC to XYZee”.
David Hallett is a consummate performer, who remains on the cutting edge of
contemporary poetry in Australia.
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Click on a title to read one of David's poems. |
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