Spoken Word - Laura Fisher and Eddy Burger about "Why Not Believe In Everything"

Spoken Word

This episode of 3CR Spoken Word is an interview with Laura Fisher and Eddy Burger. They talk about absurdist poetry, collaboration, and Laura's play "Why Not Believe In Everything".Laura Fisher is an energetic poet, and performer who is well known on the Melbourne Spoken word scene for convening Radio Laria Poetry and MCing Girls on Key. Through both these poetry nights, Laura has been a keen advocate and promoter for women poets. She has been the feature poet for various Melbourne spoken word gigs and at Dramatis Personae she was even known to channel the ghost of Emily Bronte. Eddy Burger is a writer of funny and experimental poetry, fiction, and plays. His work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies as well chapbooks by the MPU and Small Change Press and in his own self-published zines. Eddy is an anti-realist, literary radical and champion of the imagination, often concerned with challenging norms and promoting difference.