About Me

Jordan Hamel (he/him/his) is a Pōneke-based poet and performer. He grew up in the south on a diet of Catholicism and masculine emotional repression. He is the 2018 New Zealand Poetry Slam Champion and has performed at slams and festivals across Aotearoa and the USA, including CubaDupa, LitCrawl Wellington, Welcome to Nowhere, Magnitude and Bush Bash.

In September 2019  he flew to San Dieg to compete in the 2019 Individual World Poetry Slam Championships.

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Jordan has poetry published in Sport, Poetry NZ Yearbook, Sport, Takahē, Mayhem, Glass Poetry, Ghost City Press, Mimicry, Sweet Mammalian, Solid Air, Mojave Heart Review , Kissing Dynamite and elsewhere. You can read some of it here. 

Jordan also occasionally writes things for The Spinoff and previously for The Niche Cache.  He's obsessed with all things pop culture and NBA. He's also an MC, aspiring spoken word educator and disgraced sudoku champion. He loves collaboration (and writing in the third person) so drop him a line about your upcoming projects/workshops/shows/ideas.