Posted in publications on Apr 30th, 2007
the new issue of otoliths (number 5) is up. usually i don’t like the explanations “(at the writers’ festival / the mild boredom of hearing people / discuss their work / – it’s what you do – “ – Laurie Duggan’s ‘September Song’ but one of my poems in this issue was written using words [...]
Posted in opinion on Apr 30th, 2007
Last weekend Paul Comrie-Thomson’s article ‘on old-fashioned reading’ featured in The Weekend Australian’s Review section. It’s not entirely necessary to be suspicious every time someone advocates a return to values or habits now considered ‘old-fashioned’; it is problematic to think every new advance will be for the best. But in this case I am suspicious [...]
Posted in poetry on Apr 29th, 2007
vis-à-vis is visitor on visitor the heavy metal scoreboard groaning with each lopsided addition cheetohs salting the earth becky from round a corner is boosted over the gate her bmx cooler than the boys wonders never cease to flow like from white paper bags i bend down to pick up a five cent coin weird [...]
Posted in poetry on Apr 27th, 2007
Each new flu symptom a discovery within love. Nuances, sounds, ways of being dazed…The swallow that swells with discomfort. Temperature brought on by mid- afternoon. Three sneezes / half an orgasm. That bit of body. The strange fancy of plasticine-animation. /
Posted in news on Apr 23rd, 2007
check out the new online poetry journal mascara. it features some poems by cool writers, like nathan curnow & keri glastonbury for instance. & also involved is david gilbey, fellow editor of fourW. i think the gallivanting around the world is helping his poetry. look for a collection from him (ip press) sometime in the [...]
Posted in poetry on Apr 22nd, 2007
you’ve been thinking speaking interacting in tabs spaces & backspaces since 2005 it’s becoming a concern see you approach the man made of grit he’s a gnarled apple but quite big you say forgive me full stop & pause for an ellipsis as you knock down his schooner the smack to the face purges three [...]
Posted in news on Apr 19th, 2007
so i’m 29 years old. nearly. as of today i can drive a car by myself. is there anywhere to go?
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 18th, 2007
these things have i been reading: A Letter to Egon Kisch by Tim Thorne many a broken hearted woman by Mandy Beaumont the flower, the thing by mtc cronin Passenger by Laurie Duggan i should say more about them, but i’m finding it difficult for some reason. let’s just say they are all good, for [...]
Posted in news on Apr 17th, 2007
just received my print copy of otoliths 3, after it travelled around the world, back to the usa, then back again to my new address. you know what it’s really good. really. i like it. now’s the time to think about sending more poems to otoliths.
Posted in poetry on Apr 15th, 2007
movie punches that sound like nothing else a pool a shower & then walking into the wind all the reasons you are a very good driver stealing slips of paper from the west wall a labyrinth not created by daedalus but david bowie a poem for every flower there is once too cynical for lego [...]
my fictionalised account of General Eisenhower's life is sure to take out the General Fiction award, next year #abias
de crispigny booed off stage after labelling fiction 'made-up bullshit' #abias
andy griffiths makes hitler joke; a reception of nervous twitters & coughs #abias
#abias folk can tweet
1st grant app submitted for the new organisation. & so it begins. again.
