Davey Dreamnation

The strange thing about being overseas is that I’m still habitually sending my poems to Australian - as opposed to Dutch or European - magazines. Maybe that’s because my work is still written primarily for an Australian audience. But what does that mean, exactly?

… that my homepage daveydreamnation.com has been down for maintenance for the past five days, despite my good intentions.
… that the theme I’m now using is perhaps more suitable to a magazine or newsletter format, and contains many features I’ll never use.
… that the theme templates seem to contain many bugs and errors [...]

Further to my post from a couple of weeks ago about Time Out Amsterdam, I can now proudly say that I’m a published author here in the Netherlands! Not just once, but three times! Bam!

I’ll be channelling Dickens (or maybe just Bill Murray in Scrooged) on Tuesday 2 December, when I’ll be appearing at a London fundraising event described as ‘8 Poets in 80 minutes’. Of course, if this were a haiku gathering, that tag line would read something more along the lines of ‘80 Poets in 8 minutes’ [...]

It’s hard to believe that I’ve been in the Netherlands for seven months now - it seems like only yesterday I was sitting in the Lambs Go Bar drinking tequila shots and then attempting to say goodbye to all of my friends in Oz. And yet here I am, with very little to show for [...]