Davey Dreamnation

DNRC083 | 2LP | 2016 | DELETED
Trying to compile a best-of album on behalf of a band like The Completists may sound like an impossible task, and you’re probably right. Why Davey Dreamnation ever bothered to do so is anyone’s guess, but probably has a lot to do with the mild form of stupidity he [...]

Hi, my name’s Davey, but you can call me Clint, or Brian. I’m very excited about my forthcoming book launch, which is now a mere twenty four hours away. I’ve been waiting a long time for this event, over ten years in fact. I hope you’ll consider joining me for a cool glass of mead [...]

(open! all hours in a million states
/ face facts we’re broken / up to
our necks in technicalities! —>
smitten! by sunny smiles & hazy
sprays / we prayed for endings /
we prayed for endings yes & for
gamma rays! poetry is relative!
at least it’s relatively cheap / so
strap yourself on don’t disappoint
me when the future leaves! —>
… we’ll [...]

It’s not mentioned anywhere on the MWF programme so I’ll forgive you for not believing me but I’m excited to say that on Sunday September 2, at 1pm, I’ll have the pleasure of partaking in a conversation with Australian poet John Tranter. Not just over a glass of bubbly (although I suspect red wine or [...]

DNRC082 | LP | 2015 | DELETED
Sharp-eyed collectors will have already realised that the DNRC catalogue numbers atarted to go haywire right around the time of the infamous self-combustion of the planet Davium in 2014, and the subsequent return of Davey Dreamnation to the inner solar system. Some historians have put these inconsistencies down to [...]

0600 - godawful paranoid about life in general (as secure as it gets)
0660 - probably all you need
0666 - allows anyone to read and write files in the $FILES directory
0755 - probably insecure
0777 - shooting yourself in the foot insecure

It’s funny how sometimes you can feel closer to somebody you’ve never met than to people you see every day. This is the way I feel about poets with whom I have communicated via the Net and email, as well as through submission inivtations and so on. One of the poets whom I feel would [...]

Maybe I’ve had too many coffees, maybe I’m cracked out on Codral, or maybe I’m just in a hurry but the good news is that the program for the 2007 National Young Writers Festival is now online, and it’s bulk ace.
It’s been a few years since I went to Newie, so it’s good to see [...]

The Material Poem is a new e-anthology edited by James Stuart and published by non-generic productions. The blurb on the site says: “It features the work of some 28 Australian poets, artists and critics, all of whom are engaged with poetry, and more broadly language, as a material form. This body of work is inter-disciplinary, [...]

… as Bill Lawry would say. Inboxes all over the world are now groaning under the symbolic weight of an invitation to the launch of my debut poetry collection, We Will Disappear! Download away, ye mavens of the intermatubes! Yikes, double yonkers and holy reality Batman! Let the count-down begin. Just over three weeks till [...]

eat your cake! there isn’t any more
“keep your eyes glued to the floor”
left foot first then right & left again
ladies pretend you’re gentle (ben,
listen for the compere’s little rhyme
our DJ sets the beats: just keep time
roadies will escort you to the stage
so let’s all read from the same page?
catwalking’s just like breathing in -
think of [...]

testing ah testing one two three four five six -
is this thing on? can you hear me up the back
there? no? okay how about now? that’s good
that’s better (okay damn the PA what i came
here to say is quite simple really (just listen to
me now you’ve heard what everybody else has
to say it’s a matter [...]