Davey Dreamnation

Weapon le Monde was shitting himself. What with Dapto running late, evac counting down and the whine of the scarp shuttle now approaching the interexchange, chances were this day would turn out as shithouse as the last one. And the two or three before that. Okay they’ve all been shit, he thought, since the fucking [...]

our scarborough fairs deserted
the northern end of a platform
edges that escarpment hatched
the shining bullet & its scythes
its golden eye all gone martian
destination a blurs some gilded
beam where perch my destinys
droid parrot whirring its bleats
electrified outlasting even this
most energised hillside of coal
thudding then caving [ghosted
rails bearing us to a new place
where dawns are tarnish rocks
boughs bisect [...]

Chris de Burgh has wasted no time on spurious infotainment or celebrity TV circuits following his purchase of the alien from Alien, and is now back in the studio recording new tracks, one of them rumoured to be a duet with Wimbeldon champion and allround bore, Roger “Rogi” Federer. The track, a remake of de [...]

In a sad attempt to outdo his fellow has-been rivals, Chris de Burgh has bought the alien that burst out of John Hurt’s chest in the 1979 terror-thriller, erm, Alien, according to the Belfast Telegraph and about 30,000 other news agencies. Fellow crooner and sad-case HoJo is said to be quietly considering his career options [...]

Last year my friend Victoria Stanton, whose righteous Bank of Victoria site is an absolute classic of the genre, paid a visit to our house in Fitzroy, all the way from Montreal. I met Victoria in NYC as part of the Short Fuse book launch. She’s a great performer, writer and spoken word historian. Anyway, [...]

Former Cordite editor and all-round good bloke Adrian Wiggins has just updated his website. Adrian’s first book of poems “The Beggar’s Codex” came out through FIP in 1994. I once saw him wipe the floor of a Southern Highlands hotel with the artist formerly known as Les Murray but that’s another story. Since then Adrian’s [...]

string torque guts au go go strapped
comment make a minor jugular apropos
one dark leaving freaks his holiness
headband brasilia twice mistaken for
my ring toss hallelujah taurus maids
of armoricas straddled shopping bags
donate pipe cleaners to these worthy
causeways komissars rex strassenbahn
saves the kartoffeln day twas merely
plasticine i took a course in x rays
meted out near some disko gully [...]

selling out quokkas pyjama friendly nation
rants spoilt by boot lip hypochondria illn
ois youse cats sound so darned righteously
spoolin underarm flair tarmac befuddled up
straight side walker both arms in the airs
foul duck shootin tootin quota mobile farm
anyone can do it singin along swing fallow
the leider u.s.w. zeppelin nerd abreaction
john cocaine & a large supreme sounds like
sleepovers [...]

GutCult Volume 2, Issue 5 features a special selection of Australian poets including Pam Brown, MTC Cronin, Liam Ferney, DJ Huppatz “and many more …” The selection has been edited by Michael Farrell. I’m lucky enough to have been chosen: read my poems her royal majesty the queen and america. Yippee!