Bill Moran

So good to have a chin wag with two time Austin Poetry Slam Champion Bill Moran on his sixth visit to Australia.

Bill starts of the show with a powerful poem called Fortis Collum Hymnus from his brand new chapbook titled Dragged Into Heaven By The Hair.

Bill also reads another work from his chapbook, a poem called Saint Nikolas Challenges Senator Marco Rubio To A Fist Fight. One of the themes of the poem is around gun control. This was eerie timing as it was only a couple of days later when two mass shootings occured in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas. Nine people were killed in the Dayton shooting and twenty-two in the El Paso shooting.

I read a poem inspired by the prompt boxes, boxes, boxes by Stephanie Robinson. Thank you Steph!

My poem is called There Are No Words Anymore.

Bill reads a poem untitled written especially for the show inspired by a visual prompt by Mileta Rien. Thanks Mileta!

Bill performs another poem called Dream Funeral