16 OCT: INTERNATIONAL GUEST: African-American jazz poet LE SCOTT

We have an international guest! On Saturday 16 October, Perth Poetry Club presents African American jazz poet LE SCOTT. Please join us at The Moon, 323 William Street, Northbridge, from 2 to 4 pm for an amazing afternoon of poetry with a difference. If you would like to read something on open mike, please bring along something of your own, or a favourite. Le Scott will present his work in two sessions, so if you don't want to miss anything, see you at 2. 

L. E. Scott is an African American jazz poet, currently based in Wellington, New Zealand.  He has performed with an array of poets and musicians around the world and still enjoys meeting new people, new lands and new sounds.  His work is underpinned by the sounds and cadences of the spoken word of the Black Church.  Scott defines his work as jazz blues, a repetition of sound that he trusts much more than the creation of defined words.  The sound is a human tongue drum, licking the flesh, sticking deeply in your ears to suck the taste of your mind and leaving in your consciousness the agony of a stolen race from Africa.

His work has been published in magazines, newspapers, journals and anthologies in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia and the USA.  He has had more than 15 books of poetry and prose published and has edited a number of anthologies.  Scott’s most recent poetry collections are Bones, published by Five Islands Press (Melbourne) in 2004 and Speaking in Tongues, published by HeadworX Publishers (Wellington) in 2007.  His work also appears in two recent anthologies, Fingernails Across The Chalkboard and Gwendolyn Brooks and Working Writers, both published by Third World Press (USA) in 2007.