Hell Herons is a spokenword+music collective from the Canberra region + Queensland, Australia, featuring award-winning poets / writers / performers / makers Nigel Featherstone, Melinda Smith, CJ Bowerbird and Stuart Barnes.
Hell Herons’ first record The Wreck Event — described by Will Yeoman as ‘both wreck and event, destroying boundaries between poetry and music in a way song doesn’t always manage while marking another milestone in Australian poetic practice’ — is available at Bandcamp and all major streaming platforms.
Stuart Barnes 