Alasdair Carter

Alasdair Carter is a multi-award winning performance poet and a battle-scarred nurse. Alasdair sings bedside poetry on hospital wards and debrides wounds on carpeted stages. He writes and performs about what he knows and what he knows is good hand hygiene. With clean hands and honest stories; Alasdair hopes to heal heart-ache, recover trauma, and bandage his suffering with beauty. 

Alasdair is a frequent open microphone night opener and poetry slam regular. He is the winner of the Nimbin Performance Poetry Cup, KV Folk Festival Reciter of the Year and the B&B Slampionship. Alasdair has featured and facilitated workshops for Bankstown Poetry Slam, Poets Out Loud, B&B Slam, Vocable Poetry, Canberra Slam, That Poetry Thing, Poetry At Your Place, Enough Said Poetry Slam, Ruckus Slam, West Words, Word Travels and won a gold star for a poem about a pig in primary school.