Ink & Echo: Monthly Poetry Meetup

Welcome to Ink & Echo

Your monthly Saturday evening sanctuary for poetic exploration and expression! Half workshop and half reading, this two-hour-long event is designed to enrich your poetic craft while offering a stage for your voice to be heard.

Whether you’re a seasoned poet or picking up the pen for the first time, Ink & Echo offers a warm, inclusive space. What’s more? Each month features a unique theme, inspiring you to dive deeper into different facets of poetry.

The first hour of Ink & Echo is a workshop tailored to ignite your creative spirit. Guided by author and poet SoulReserve (author of Lakesong), you’ll dive into writing exercises, learn about different poetic forms, and explore techniques to make your words resonate.

This is a safe space to practice, make mistakes, and grow, all while enjoying the thrill of immediate and constructive feedback from your fellow poets.

The second hour opens the floor to you! Step up to the stage and share your freshly minted verses or read from your stash of treasured poems.

It’s an intimate, encouraging environment where every voice is celebrated. Each reading segment aligns with the month’s theme, offering a cohesive and engaging experience for readers and listeners alike.

Monthly Theme: October 2026

Between Wind and Wall: Poetics of Home

Home is never only a place of shelter. It is the space between what holds us and what passes through: wind under a door, voices through a wall, memory moving from room to room. Between Wind and Wall explores home as architecture, inheritance, refuge and rupture, asking what remains when houses disappear, when walls absorb what happened within them, and when fire strips a landscape back to what cannot be erased. Through poetry, we listen for the traces left in rooms, ruins, Country and memory, and consider how home continues to live in us long after its walls are gone.

Please note that starting in March, all sessions will happen at

Lawson Flats

4 Sherwood Ct, Perth WA 6000

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Remember: If you have already written poems that fit the monthly theme, bring them along to share with the group.

Tickets

Tickets are pay-what-you-feel and start at $20. Book to RSVP and buy your tickets right here on Humanitix.

Location and Transport

The event will be held at Lawson Flats, 4 Sherwood Court, Perth, WA 6000.

Lawson Flats has step-free access via Sherwood Court, with lift access inside the building.

Elizabeth Quay train station is about a 5-minute walk away, and Perth train station is about a 10-minute walk away. The Blue CAT also runs along St Georges Terrace.

There is no onsite parking at Lawson Flats. Nearby paid parking options include Council House and Pier Street car parks. There are also short-stay bays outside Lawson Flats suitable for drop-off and pick-up.

Photography Consent

This event may be photographed. By registering for a ticket, you confirm you are giving consent for any photos and recordings to be used for promotional materials and communications.

If you do not wish to be photographed, please contact Laksh at soulreserve@yahoo.com.

Ink & Echo is proudly supported by Lawson Flats through the generous in-kind provision of the venue.

With thanks to Lawson Flats, up to four complimentary places are available for Lawson Flats members. Please select the Lawson Flats Member ticket when booking.

About the Facilitator

Lakshmi Kanchi (SoulReserve) is an emerging Indian-Australian poet on a mission—to make poetry accessible. Her writing anatomises the complex linkages between language, culture, and perception.

She is the author of “Lakesong”, her debut poetry collection, published by Centre for Stories. Lakshmi won the 2023 Ros Spencer Poetry Prize and 2021 Pocketry Prize for Unpublished Poets, and her works have been shortlisted for the Heroine’s Prize and Grieve Project.

Her poetry appears in ‘Australian Poetry Anthology,’ ‘Social Alternatives,’ ‘Portside Review,’ ‘Burrow Journal,’ ‘The Saltbush Review,’ and more. She was also the Inaugural Poet-in-Residence at The Wetlands Centre (2022-23) and Swan Writer-in-Residence at the Midland Courthouse (2024).