Both an adjective and a noun the word 'suspect' is rumoured to have entered the English language about 1340 and to be derived from the French word 'suspicere'. Suspicere means to look up at, mistrust, suspect, and 'look at secretly'. Have you ever heard a better definition of poetry?

Date: August 29
Venue: the BMW Edge Bar Melbourne Writers Festival
Time: 8:30PM
Details: Slam Poet Tracie Morris in performance.

Contact: Michael Crane mfcrane2000@yahoo.com
Details: Verse thats low on fizz so you can slam it down fast. Come and scream for your favourite as the quest to find Melbournes Poetry Idol comes to its climax.
Also featuring renowned New York slammer, Tracie Morris. Produced and compered by Michael Crane.

Poetry Day Lunchtime Poetry Slam!
When: Thursday 28th August, 12pm
Where: To Be Advised
Details: Celebrate Poetry Day with this poetry reading on Edith Cowan University campus during lunch.

Cairns Libraries presents Shake & Stir Theatre Company wil2shake workshops
Shakespeare in the Library features Shake & Stir Theatre Company with great shows and workshops as part of Festival Cairns 2008.

Shakespeare in the Library features Shake & Stir Theatre Company with great shows and workshops as part of Festival Cairns 2008.

Date: August 28-30
Time: Thursday to Friday 9am & 12 noon, Saturday 9am; Statespeare a performance is on Friday, August 29 at 7.30pm
Venue: Cairns City Library
Admission: Workshop is free, Performance is $25
Contact: For more information call Lee Finklestein on 40443 797 or email l.finklestein@cairns.qld.gov.au
Ticketing Info: Ticketlink on 1300 855 835 or go to www.ticketlink.com.au

Lines of Development: The Emerging tradition
Date: Saturday 6 September
Time: 2.153.30
Chair: Tim Sinclair, Australian Society of Authors
Poets: Judith Bishop, Elizabeth Campbell, Andy Jackson, Vivian Smith, Paul Hetherington

Performance Night: Chalk Open Arts Festival
Date: Saturday 6 September
Time: 7.0011pm
Venue: Tumbalong Park, Darling Harbour.
Details: FREE Live bands (coordinated by Jess Cook)

State of Play: Australian Poetry and Poetics Now
Venue: Sydney Mechanics School of Arts

Date: Sunday 7 September
Time: 11.1512.45
Details: chair, Paul Dawson (University of NSW); Poets Ron Pretty, Kevin Brophy, Bronwyn Lea

Wit, Wisdom and the Vernacular
Time: 2.153.15
Venue: Sydney Mechanics School of Arts

Date: Sunday 7 September
Details: Reading, conversation, speculation and debate featuring Peter Kirkpatrick, (participating chair), Joanne Burns, Alan Wearne

Judith Wright Memorial Lecture ‘Monologarhythms: the Speaker and the Spoken’
Venue: Sydney Mechanics School of Arts
Date: Sunday 7 September
Time: 4.30—5.15
Details: Chair Robert Dixon; Poet Bruce Dawe