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official statistics indicate 90% of stock-photo subjects regularly enjoy listening to my mp3 poetry recordings. 10% did not know the archives exist, but now intend to check them out at the first available opportunity. ‘dog days’ is new today.

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well richard tagged me to list my 10 favourite movies. i’m unsure about this one, mainly because my knowledge of ‘film’ isn’t that great. i’d like to be a buff, but other things intervene. that said i will attempt it. (in no specific order) 1. Annie – John Huston. my sister paula & i watched [...]

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apparently, some of my poetry is reviewed in the first edition of ‘Inside Poetry‘, an internet radio show run by Rick Mullin & James Knowles. I haven’t heard what they have to say yet, my internet connection is being surly tonight, & i won’t hear if for another hour & 47 minutes it seems. but [...]

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before i got this book in the mail i read on someone’s blog that it had a lot of sex in it: i was a bit nervous about that. maybe that’s just my thing to deal with. anyway i’m over it. Super 8 is one of the most original things i’ve seen in quite a [...]

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never one to admit the technical details / never much liked the short back & sides look / what is it oxalis poisoning my dream of parsley on demand / i curse that / queensland minister says we don’t want southerners takin our water / it is my water anyway / the tone the mood [...]

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david i’ve been thinking about your dangerous drivinghow buckmaster killed himself methodically& also persiflage the word of the day / this another riotous evening at theathletics oval (yesterday things clouded over late & talk was of rain – regardless today looks to do the same) i mean what are resultsthe benefits of cross-referencing arebecoming less [...]

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the procrustes myth is one favoured by critical types. just a thought. so i venture out to the library to do some serious work, but i end up leafing through the next round of journals that came in over the summer holiday (yes i am the scum who does not subscribe to journals but reads [...]

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i was surprised a while back to receive a book in the mail, & a request from harpercollins that i should email my 300 word review back to them in a few days. i completely forgot i signed up for that. but anyway it’s here, with a number of other reader-reviews. what can you say [...]

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well nothing that exciting…however i did just perform a major update of my blog links. i’m pretty sure now that all blogs i get feeds from are listed over there on the side. it was an interesting process – some of the blogs haven’t been updated for months (cassie lewis has disappeared, michael farrells’s ‘culture [...]

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wow why can’t i seem to post on this blog regularly. i must have nothing to say. been reading an old selected poems by Pam Brown. it’s fantastic. the clash of the i & the you. i don’t know anything else.

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