BODY Poetry Night at Java Café on January 14th at 7:30 pm will feature writer, vocalist, and performer Gone Marshall and the satirical pop poetry stylings of Shane Worrell.
In accordance with tradition we will be offering cheap booze and Angkor beer cans for just $1. And as always we welcome you to our open-mic!
Drink deal starts at 7:30 pm, and the poetry starts VERY SERIOUSLY THIS TIME at 8:00pm.
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READER BIOS
J.Rosette, aka ‘Gone Marshall’, is a filmmaker, writer, vocalist and performer who has been living in Southeast Asia since 2005, much of that time in Cambodia. His credits as a filmmaker and producer include: the award winning feature documentary, ‘BookWars’, the multicultural road movie ‘Lost in New Mexico’, and other commissioned documentaries, shorts, PSAs and edutainment media.
While living in New York, he acted in various off-off Broadway theater productions and indie films, and is a member of the Screen Actors Guild. Mr. Rosette is also the founder of Cambodia’s first internationally recognized film festival, CamboFest (www.cambofest.com), as well as the neighboring Bangkok IndieFest (www.bangkokfest.com).
He will be reading selections of original writings from ‘William Bonney’s Electric Book of Hours’ (poetry), HURRICANE (creative fiction) and other poems, musings, scribblings, and selections. Accompanied by jazz pianist Barry Speirs.
Find out more at www.jasonrosette.com
Shane Worrell is a reluctant satirical pop poet from upper-lower-middle-class Australia who recently moved to Cambodia and now works as a sub-editor at The Phnom Penh Post.
His original plan was to be a children’s birthday party pirate, but after being able to pen just one song – Arr, arr, arr me hearty, let’s celebrate your birthday party – he considered other things.
In his time as lead singer of Melbourne kindie rock band Telemachus Brown, Shane found 1 minute and 28 seconds of fame when one of his songs was used on a BBC TV show and another few seconds of fame when iTunes censored another song it accidentally thought had an offensive title (but didn’t).
He released a novel called Tom Climbs the Fence in 2010, which one Australian newspaper described as “a resounding success”, but in between gigs involving poetry and the odd song on acoustic guitar, Shane tries to convince his family that he is not an artist.
BODY Poetry night begun early 2010 by Phnom Penh residents and published US poet Philip Heijmans and Pushcart prize nominated Chris Crawford to create a beat of poetry in Cambodia, BODY Poetry Series quickly found a pulse of not only performers, but enthusiastic writers as well. BODY Poetry joined forces with Java Café & Gallery and together have launched a monthly series of events.
HOP(E) – Site specific performance
