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First Thought Best Thought | Ender Başkan
Perth Poetry Festival 2026 · Ear to the Ground
Writers are often told to “find your voice”. This workshop asks a more useful question: how?
Ender Başkan draws on surrealist, Dadaist and Zen practices of language play and automatic writing to help participants trust intuition, follow their own sensibility and work with the energy of first thought.
Facilitator
Ender Başkan is a poet, novelist, small-press publisher and bookseller. Winner of the 2021 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize, he is co-founder of Vre Books, Agog poetry readings and Study experimental space. His debut poetry collection Two Hundred Million Musketeers was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.
Tickets
- Standard: $30 + $1.25 Humanitix fee
- WA Poets Inc. Member: $25 + $1.13 Humanitix fee
Accessibility
Vincent Library is wheelchair accessible. Contact the organiser if you have specific access requirements.
Refunds
Refunds are available up to 7 days before the workshop.
Places are limited. Bring your preferred writing tools. Workshops are suitable for all levels unless the individual description says otherwise.
Acknowledgement of Country
WA Poets Inc acknowledges the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which these Festival events take place, and pays respect to Elders past and present and to continuing culture, community and connection to Country.