Rochford Street Review Sonic Poetry Festival Supplement. Hamish aka Danksta Downunder aka Je Suis/I Am Joe Goulg is the convenor of the Spoken Word @ Bar Oussou open mic event happening from 730pm on Wednesday 30 August during the Sonic Poetry Festival.

Rochford Street Review Sonic Poetry Supplement. Hamish aka Danksta Downunder aka Je Suis/I Am Joe Goulg is the convenor of the Spoken Word @ Bar Oussou open mic event happening from 730pm on Wednesday 30 August during the Sonic Poetry Festival. Bar Oussou is a popular African music bar which opened in 2013 at 653 Sydney Road Brunswick.
 
A small collective started a fortnightly spoken word event there shortly afterwards and Danksta Downunder inherited the event in May 2017. The pandemic interrupted it from March 2020 to February 2023. There is no sign-up sheet because that’s paperwork.. The order of performers is chosen at random, mixing the newcomers and novices with the regulars. All languages are welcome and  “100% survival rate guaranteed”. If anyone starts ranting Danksta Downunder gives them a dose of his patented ‘rantidote’. Otherwise nobody knows what will happen on the night……
 
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Hamish Danks Brown aka Danksta Downunder is Secretary of the Melbourne Poets Union and convener of open mic spoken events at Bar Oussou in Brunswick and Voodoo Love Child Speakeasy Bar in St Kilda. He is also the caretaker of Roy the Cat Resort and Retreat in Elwood and a reincarnation of hobo pest and poet Joe Gould (USA 1889-1957) who died in New York o the very same day Hamish was born in Sydney. He has published 2 chapbooks All Other Destinations and The Broken Candle and has performed at various events across Australia, USA, Canada, England, France, Turkey and Singapore.