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That Poetry Thing presents: Jerzy Beaumont & Allis Hamilton

Jerzy Beaumont is an Australian poet currently residing in Alberta, Canada. His work has featured in publications such as Cicerone Journal, Australian Poetry Journal 8.2, BITE Magazine, The Canberra Times, Hobo Camp Review, Cordite 93: PEACH, Red Room Poetry’s Line Breaks, and more. His debut verse novella Errant Night was published by Recent Work Press in 2021 and shortlisted for the John Bray poetry award in 2022. Previously specializing in spoken word & free verse poetry, Jerzy has more recently been exploring formal structure and prairie poetry in preparation for his next book.'

Allis Hamilton is a poet, artist, and musician. Her poetry is published in Australia, Scotland, England, Ireland,
and Canada, such as The Poetry Review, Meanjin, Overland, Westerly. Allis was a finalist in the 2022 Montreal International Poetry Prize. She has been a semi-finalist in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize; a finalist in the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing; and long-listed for the Delphian Gallery Open Call, London.She featured on BBC Radio 3’s improvised jazz programme, ‘Freeness’, 2020; & on BBC Radio 4, World at One, when her composition for the Obsolete Sounds project for Cities and Memory was discussed in 2022.

Open mic - to sign up on the night come fifteen minutes before we start at 7pm, or email us at smithspoetry@gmail.com. Each open mic poet has 3 minutes, please time your poems.