GM Walker writes short, sharp and macabre poems that mix acerbic wit with a touch of sweet melancholy and a taste for love, lust and long blacks. She has read (and reads) at spoken word venues including Friendly Street (since 1992), Jahz (previously Boltz), Riffs Music Lounge, Bookends, Crown & Sceptre, Exeter, Cargo Club, Rhino Room, P.J. O’Briens and Writers’ Caf @ Koko’s. She has also read at the Festival of 1000 Voices (Carrick Hill), the Festival of the Coast (Henley Beach), and the Marion Learning Festival (Westfield Marion). Her poems have been published in a number of Friendly Street Readers since 1993, and most recently in SideWaLK 9 and Fingers & Tongues (Paroxysm Press – 2002). She published her own book of poetry ”The Blue Woman” in 2006 through BookEnds Books.