The Bracket Creeps

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The Bracket Creeps are a quartet of Wollongong-based performance poets; Jimmy Andrews, Daniel East, Patrick Lenton and Lachlan Williams.

The Bracket Creeps. L-R: East, Tad, Lockee & Jimmy. Photograph by Kris Baum

Inspired by the American slam poetry movement and, specifically, UK poetry troupe Aisle 16, The Bracket Creeps act consists of the four performers presenting themselves as a "poetry boyband". Their satirical performances amalgamate solo poetry, group poetry, comedy skits and standup with a poetry theme.

The Bracket Creeps are artistically notable for adopting the stylistics of "Def Poetry Jam" performance within the traditions and context of modern Australian literature, signifying not merely the importation of American slam poetics to Australia but also the translation of these poetics into an Australian idiommatic practise . Although their act is ostensibly comic, the writers themselves represent an emerging generation of serious literary practitioners who are less concerned with imgastic depictions of Australian landscapes or the vernacular of "Australianness" as they are with artistically responding to the globalised blancmange of pop culture and media that defines their generational identity.

When performing as The Bracket Creeps, each of the four affect a stage personality with a performance pseudonym and favoured poetry style. Jimmy Andrews is "Jimmy Bracket", the "angry genius" and Augustan; Daniel East is "East Bracket", the romantic Symbolist; Patrick Lenton is "Tad Bracket", the "wacky" Surrealist; and Lachlan Williams is "Lockee Bracket", the "shaggy misanthrope" and beat poet.

The Bracket Creeps perform around Wollongong, Sydney and regional New South Wales. They have a dedicated female following, who are known as "Brackettes". The Bracket Creeps first full-length show, "Borderline Poetry Disorder", premiers as part of the Merrigong Theatre Company fringe season on August 31, 2007.