A “DINGY dark” back room of live rock venue the Rosemount Hotel is the home of the bi-monthly poetry and music gathering Ships in the Night.
It’s about to wrap up the 2015 program with headline poets, West Aussie Lucy Dougan and Melbournian Geoff Lemon.
Dougan was recently shortlisted for a Queensland literary award for her poetry collection The Guardians.
Her cheery phone demeanour is a front for a darker muse.
“I’m fairly cheery…just not necessarily on the page,” she tells the Voice.
Lemon is a poet and cricket tragic-turned ABC sports commentator, who uses satire to make his point.
“[It] makes people more receptive to your serious side.”
The duo will be backed by comic and misanthrope Patrick Marlborough, novelist Dennis Venning, writer and illustrator Richard Moore and lyricist and punk comics author Ashley Ramsey.
Sam Atkin will be making drone music and Fingernail will spice things up with its alternative rock.
It’s on 7.30pm, tix $10.
by JENNY D’ANGER
Perth Voice Interactive 
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