I Think, Therefore I Slam

I Think, Therefore I Slam

I Think, Therefore I Slam (ITTIS) showcases the best spoken word and slam poetry artists from Australia and beyond. Join your host Andrew Rogerson as we break down the creative process (Think!) and share our stories (Slam!).

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September 17, 2025 83 mins

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THIS IS THE SEASON 2 FINALE OF ITTIS, THANK YOU ALL FOR LISTENING!

Brandon Leake is the season 15 winner of America’s Got Talent, a 7x Telly Award Winner, 1x SOVAS Award Winner, and 1x Emmy Award Winner. Brandon has been a Poetic Performer, Ke...

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Megan J Riedl is a nationally recognised spoken word performer, collaborative theatre-maker, expert world-builder and master facilitator. Megan was awarded Queensland Poetry’s 2021 XYZ Innovation in Spoken Word Prize, and the Bob McKinnon Memorial Pr...

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Rae White is a non-binary transgender writer, educator and zine maker. Their poetry collection "Milk Teeth" won the 2017 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and their second poetry collection, "Exactly As I Am", was shortlisted for the 2023 ...

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Nikki Viveca is a Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist whose work spans stand-up comedy, performance poetry, theatre, dance, burlesque, and improvisation. A Latvian-Australian trans woman in her 40s, she brings a bold and unapologetically queer l...

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August 20, 2025 80 mins

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Ravi K. Gandhi is a Canadian-Indian poet, writer, and educator, living in Ontario, Canada. He regularly performs and speaks about the power of poetry in front of audiences. He also runs workshops that integrate ideas around healing from writi...

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Joel McKerrow is an award-winning performance poet, author, and educator, known for his raw, passionate delivery and powerful storytelling. A veteran of the global slam scene, Joel blends poetic craft with deep insight into the human conditio...

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Neil Hilborn is a best-selling author and, with over 150 million views to his credit, he is the most-watched poet ever. He has performed in 41 states and 8 countries, and in 2019 alone he drove coast to coast five times while on tour. His favorite to...

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July 30, 2025 70 mins

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Josh Cake has won the Peseroff Poetry Prize from the University of Massachusetts, was named the Most Impactful Poet by the Australian Enterprise Awards in both 2024 and 2025, and was named Poet of the Year 2025 by the Livewire Global Awards. Josh...

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Antoinette Luu is a Vietnamese-Australian writer practising in south-west Sydney. Antoinette’s poetry seeks to locate the global in the local. To her, poetry is lived before it is written. Antoinette has published writing and performed poetry with nu...

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Tayla Richardson is a poet, multidisciplinary artist and disability advocate. She creates to connect and untangle perceptions of ambiguous loss, hope and impermanence, drawing on her experience living with a rare neuromuscular condition. Tayl...

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Kyle Tran Myhre (aka Guante) is a poet and activist whose work explores the relationships between narrative, power, and resistance. He’s performed at the United Nations, contributed to a Grammy-winning album, been a member of two National Poe...

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Andrea Louise Thomas is a freelance writer working across several genres. Her poems have been published in journals and anthologies. She’s performed her poetry at Melbourne Writers Festival, Australian Poetry Slam, on TV and radio. One poem was a...

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Bernadette Kirwan, The Celtic Arab, is both a teacher and a multiplatform content creator. She is also a writer, mainly of poetry, born in Australia to an Irish father and a Palestinian mother. Online, she creates content about varying topics...

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Omar King McCray is a Brooklyn-based poet, filmmaker, and educator whose work explores themes of love, identity, and resilience. He is the creative force behind the YouTube channel BrokenLandTV, which features poetic short films, spoken word performa...

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Sarah Elizabeth Clark is a poet, animal assisted therapist, and educator (in that order) from the outer edges of Melbourne. The themes of her work include love, lust, capitalism, community, philosophy, spirituality, nature, mental health, trauma, neu...

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Demetri Manabat is a rising spoken word artist born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. He uses his experiences with grief, love, and loss to help those fighting similar battles across the globe. Demetri is a member of the Spotlight Poetry Slam Team in Las ...

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Hamish Danks Brown is a poet, storyteller, writer and event MC who's been based in Melbourne since 2016. Originally from Sydney, he's led a maverick life in the arts and media in various parts of Australia, and travelled around the world on a poetic pilg...

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Andi Stewart is a queer galaxy in the shape of a poem. Four time Australian Poetry Slam finalist and two-time runner-up, his poetry hits the sweet spot between radical honesty and just-uncomfortable-enough to warrant second place. Founder of ...

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Solli Raphael is an award-winning author and poet, advocate, and acclaimed keynote speaker. A former ambassador to many charities and non-profits, Solli runs Earth Enablers; an environmental conservation organisation, World Of Poetry; a collective de...

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