Last Sunday my brother talked me into going to Poetry Idol. This is an event held in the lead up to the Melbourne Writers Festival. It sounded boring as batshit (and I’ve only written one line of poetry in my entire life), but one of our friends was in it and it was a literary event and there was free wine and cheese. All this meant I had to go.

It was at the St Kilda public library across the road from the town hall. As soon as I got in there I was pleasantly surprised it wasn’t that bad as I thought and I found myself having fun. Most of the poems were humorous and the performances entertaining.

In all there were 25 poets 4 would win a place in the final. Our friend, Rose, in my opinion was easily in the top 4 – but some junky won instead.

Poetry Idol will be on next week Sunday at 2pm in the St Kilda public library – go and check it out.

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