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Continuing with stories behind the slam, this week I share "The Great Orange Hope", a poetic tribute to Hayley Williams of Paramore, one of the most enduring pop-punk bands of a generation.

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Rachael Williams is a spoken word poet and writer from Darkinjung Country on the NSW Central Coast. She has featured at poetry slams and festivals across NSW including Byron Writers Festival, Yours & Owls Festival, and in the ACT at Canberra Slam. Williams is a two-time finalist in The National Youth Poetry Slam, and in 2024, performed with Bankstown Poetry Grand Slam for a sold-out Sydney Town Hall. Hitting venues like the Sydney Opera House and the State Library last year, Williams was the 2024 NSW State Poetry Slam Champion, and the 2024 National Runner-Up in the Australian Poetry Slam. Her collection "I Have Loved You Since You Were Tiny and Crawling, And I Wasn’t Born Or Alive Yet" launched at the State Library of NSW last October.

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Adara Enthaler is a spoken word poet living on Dharawal Land in Wollongong, and is the host of Enough Said Poetry Slam. She has featured at writers festivals, folk festivals and poetry slams across NSW, and her writing has appeared in numerous anthologies from Baby Teeth Journal and Heroines Festival, as well as her poetry zines "Equidistant" (2018) and "Crowdsourced Poems" (2022). She performed in the Bankstown Poetry Slam Grand Slam in 2023 and 2024, and won in 2026 at Sydney Opera House with her team In Other Words.

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