Davey Dreamnation

ABC Radio National last night broadcast what it called the first ever National poetry slam in Australia, courtesy of the Deep End program and fellow-Proser charlotte sometimes. The program featured nine finalists from around Australia (including another Proser, KL) plus yours truly performing a “sacrificial lamb” role by reading out a poem before the contest [...]

For the past two years I’ve been studying towards a Master of Arts by Research (Thesis only) within the Department of English with Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. My thesis is a 30,000 word novella concerning the invention of Marzipan in a fictitious village (L-) in Germany in the 1400s. I’ve just been [...]

Well, who would have thunk it. One of my favourite Pavement songs of all time is “Cut Your Hair”, which is freaky because towards the end of the song the lyric goes like this:
Advertising looks and chops a must
No big hair!!
Songs mean a lot
When songs are bought
And so are you-
Bitch, rant down to the [...]

I’m dreaming of a nineteenth century Finland
Where we skied to school & my lunch was free
Prior to my birth even the birds did know it
I was smaller than a grain of sand inside you
Mother said I wasn’t even thought of then yet
She could feel me stirring inside a tiny bell
Pealing against the walls of her [...]

Come ere, your uncle Clint wants to say something to ya. This is a heads up, okay, and I’m not gunna repeat anything so this is thinking time, right? Right. Shoulders back. Heads up, backs straight. Knees pressed together, shoelaces tied separately. Eyes open, mouth shut. Pencils down, balloons up. Please use graph paper for [...]

summers angles false starts hits
trail a fuselage of painted mist
that leaves & seasons glue assist
suspension under glass portraits
snails delay hollowly all along
convex carpets of autumns soft
crackle as the lens sends back
fortitude in the shapes of hell
winter kills the leaves of glass
passing from time to liquidity
an abstract class a new botanics
snake eyes in an inkwell timbre
these [...]