Davey Dreamnation

Last Thursday night I MCed at the launch of issue #24 of Going Down Swinging, Australia’s coolest literary anthology. I was actually involved in the production of this issue editorially; I’ve pasted my editorial for the issue below. To order copies or to find out more about submitting to GDS, visit the website.
EDITORIAL
This is my [...]

“Every time a rabbit comes out of its burrow,
it is facing Vietnam the whole of its life …”
Allen Carr (R.I.P.)

they call me pirate dave just to piss me off
i am the vietnam rabbit coming out of a hole
out of a burrow blown to bits i am a rabbit
coming out of my hole every day for [...]

Cordite 25 - Generation of Zeroes is now online, featuring new works by a whole bunch of digitally cool poets including Carol Jenkins, Derek Motion, Elena Knox, Jill Jones, Joel Deane, Klare Lanson and more! Our special guest poetry editor and chanteuse extraordinaire alicia sometimes has done a terrific job balancing the ones and the [...]

DNRC069 | LP | 2010 | DELETED
Dedicated to his friend and mentor Scaramouche, the long-awaited debut album from Australasia’s finest Galaga player was met with lukewarm tea and biscuits upon its instant deletion in 2010. Citing “irreconciled accounts” and “bonus points disputes”, Clint Bo Dean went into instant retirement after his album’s shock deletion, telling [...]

DNRC568 | LP | 2009 | DELETED
Disgracefully derivitive release from the band who once called themselves Rumour, in honour of Fleetwood Mac’s album of almost the same name. Taking up where the Toilet Cleaners flushed off, The Four Calling Birds somehow convinced DNRC founder and Grade-A idiot Davey Dreamnation to sign them up for a [...]

DNRC067 | LP | 2009/2012 | DELETED
Otherwise known as the better-looking half of now-defunct comic duo Hoodie ‘n’ Heels, Hoodie Over Heels released this, her one and only blistering collection of heart-on-sleeve tear-jerkers in the summer of 2009, thus capitalising on the apparent inability of consumers to tell the difference between herself and her former [...]

hotter than that princes highway
hotter than the towering inferno
hotter than hell on christmas day
hotter than every cricketer’s mo 
heel heet! by crikey, that’s hot
heel hete! ouch! don’t touch it!
heel hete! (i’m talking very hot
heel hete! … ehm … oh, shit.
hotter than any council barbecue
hotter than ham & cheese on toast
hotter than a festival portaloo
hotter than your [...]

the dreamy scent of sleep escapes
from a glass jar full of rollmops
slipping here between day & night
the stars fall like drops of (dew
eclipses bait the atmosphere with
hints of anarchy & FSU (bleachers
groan beneath our stellar weights
subway snarls make the beast with
two attacks tip a jar upside down
watch (a sleepy tear dripping out
soft cuddly animals in [...]

I was almost a bee by the time I was
born under propylene beams I was two
days old by the bee by the bay I was
under moon wood that was why I would
lie in the grasses at sunset was new
& cicadas were still under nights by
the light it was listening mountains
yodelled their blades sharp as I [...]