Today's show features a recording from a live performance by Kathryn Ross at Girls On Key, in March 2021.

Girls on Key hosts a monthly spoken word event at Open Studio in Northcote, which aims to foster opportunities for women and gender diverse poets to connect and share their work.

Kathryn Ross is a word tinkerer, beach drifter, chronic over-thinker, shapeshifter (mild mannered nurse manager by day, florid microphone-hogging, rhyme-reciting poet by night).

Her first love has always been the positioning of letters into words, into iambs, into lines, into poesy. She’s had the occasional word dabble preserved for posterity, but really her interest lies in just quietly writing stuff down, and reading it for others, out loud.

Kathryn Ross lives in a small coastal town in Victoria, where she divides her time between writing poetry, and working in aged care. Her poetry has been included in anthologies and online journals, and she has been commissioned to write and read poetry as part of local festivals. She has co-authored a collection of long-distance collaborative poetry, At the Edge of Forget, written with fellow poets from Melbourne, Michigan and California.

You can find out more about Girls on Key on their Facebook page, or www.girlsonkey.com.