One of Australia's premier performance poets David Hallett has been developing and presenting school performances and festival features for over two decades. Twice winner of the Poetry Olympics at the Sydney Writers Festival, winner of the Byron Bay Writers Festival Poetry Prize, Nimbin Performance Poetry World Cup and Woodford Story Award, David has toured with his poetry from outback schools to the Sydney Opera House to the beat cafes of New York.

For over 25 years David has hosted two of Australia's longest running poetry venues: Byron Bay's Writers at the Rails and Lismore's Live Poets. He is a most accomplished performance poet whose thought provoking and inspiring poems come with a good dose of comedy, satire and social commentary, and his passion for poetry has lit a creative spark at schools and festivals across Australia.

David's secondary schools presentations have included masterclasses on poets Wilfred Owen, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, John Donne, Peter Skrzynecki, Judith Wright, Bruce Dawe and Emily Dickinson; as well as his own popular show of original poetry Rhythm, Rhyme & Rap. David is also touring a new show for both schools and festivals titled A Century of Australian Poetry featuring a carousel of works by Paterson, Lawson and CJ Dennis, Judith Wright, Kath Walker, Peter Skrzynecki, Bruce Dawe, Richard Tipping, Komninos Xervos...and Hallett.

David Hallett's entertaining wordsmithery is on the cutting edge of contemporary performance poetry literally jumping from the page to the stage.