To celebrate the commencement of Red Room’s Poetry Month in August, listen to Western Australian poet, writer and spoken-word artist Scott-Patrick Mitchell (SPM) perform new works about the natural world.
ABOUT SCOTT-PATRICK MITCHELL
Scott-Patrick Mitchell (SPM) is a WA based non-binary poet who is a guest on Whadjuk Noongar Land. SPM’s work appears in Contemporary Australian Poetry, The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry, Solid Air, Stories of Perth and Going Postal. They have a number of previous chapbooks, including songs for the ordinary mass (PressPress, 2009), The Rutting Season (Mulla Mulla Press, 2012) and This Is How We Heal (Hectic Measures Press, 2018). In March 2022, Mitchell released their first full-length poetry Clean, which explores addiction and recovery in relation to WA’s methamphetamine crisis.
