Davey Dreamnation

In 2008, on the poetry front, A821.4 appeared in PFS Post (USA), ‘Great Big Star’ in FourW, Sunbathing in Overland, ‘O’Dowd Seeks Whitman’ in Going Down Swinging (#27), B’rel’n and Bushpo in Cordite Poetry Review (#29), ‘Rain Loop’ in Meanjin, ‘Kerry’ in Famous Reporter, ‘Nieuw Holland’ in Island (#113), ‘De Kraai en het Paard’ in [...]

Cordite’s gone pastoral but that doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with droving. Guest poetry editor Stuart Cooke steadies the lead with his selections, including new work by Joyce Parkes, Michael Farrell, Nick Powell, Jennifer Compton, David Musgrave and more! The issue also features six tracks from the latest issue of Going Down Swinging, available [...]

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 [...]

Time Out has just started an Amsterdam-based monthly magazine and I’m happy to say I’ve got a story in the classical music section of their second issue, due out in November! The magazine’s website is pretty empty at the moment but it does feature one interesting video, a series of vox pops with residents of [...]

I read this book while travelling first class on a train from Stockholm to Gavle in Sweden last month but that’s another story. At seventy-odd pages, When You Bit (OTOLITHS, 2008) is a good hour’s read, if you pace yourself properly.

Just thought I’d test out this super-dooper new Wordtube player thingo I’ve installed on my website to upload some old mp3s. Please, consider …

It’s been a long time coming, but copies of my debut poetry collection We Will Disappear have finally landed on these nether shores. Over the fold I’ve posted some pics of the box and its contents. Yays.

“I thought that our unique geographic identity would be taken as exotic and therefore: enticing. That wasn’t the case. A review on our first tour in Vienna was entitled: ‘Vom ende der Welt aber gut’ - from the end of the world – but good. We also played in Oxford on that trip and a [...]

It tickles me pink to announce that MULLOWAY, Cordite’s tribute to the poetry of Robert Adamson, is now online!
Join our guest editor Greg McLaren as he navigates the river of Adamson’s poetry, with new work by John Tranter, Kate Fagan, joanne burns, Stuart Cooke, Adam Aitken, Adrian Wiggins, James Stuart and the mysterious Albert [...]

Here’s an interesting post by Laurie Duggan on the wall of sound, where he makes the point that the vocal track on My Bloody Valentine’s song ‘Come In Alone’ works because of the wall of sound surrounding it. While I think this is true, a closer inspection of the lyrics to these kinds of songs [...]

Check out this video, the second half of which features the K&D Den Haag Stylings appartement!! Unfortunately, BBQ and back yard not included.