And now for something completely different!

Brisbane’s infamous open mic poetry extravaganza brings you a veritable science-themed scribe supernova, where wordsmiths from the streets of Brissy are invited to cast their prose into the furnace of the Lefty’s stage, and battle it out with hammer and anvil to create new alloys of linguistic elasticity yet unforeseen in the known universe!

Ruckus Poetry Slam has been opening the stage to the grassroots and professional writers of our city every month for 11 years now, and they’re thrilled to partner with the World Science Festival Brisbane for a night of nerdy, wordy mayhem!

Have a poem you want to share? You’re invited! Open mic means OPEN TO ALL! Sign up to read when the doors open at 6:30pm, and wow us with your words!