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Madchester

In honour of the Stone Roses reunion, here's a poem I wrote more than a decade ago about my own experiences over a decade before that in the early 1990s, when bands like the Roses, the Charlatans, The Farm and the Happy Mondays were popular with a certain crowd...
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Quotes to Remember (12)

Australian Foreign Minister KEVIN RUDD in a speech delivered at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (May 2011)
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Thirty Australian Poets

The new University of Queensland Press poetry anthology, Thirty Australian Poets, is out now and features, well, thirty Australian poets.
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The Daveylands Bokstaveringsalfabet Conversion Table™

This handy conversion table will be of use to anyone wishing to communicate with Davey via travel agency hotlines, military comms, airport control towers or CB radio.
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Oddities

@daveyinsweden’s 500th tweet!

Image: my five-hundredth tweet. Follow @daveyinsweden on Twitter!
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Oddities

Best Australian Poems 2011

Well, the cat is out of the bag (hat tip, Jill Jones) but I'm very pleased to say that my poem 'Cute' (read it here, or here) has been selected for inclusion in Black Inc.'s Best Australian Poems 2011.
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Cabaret Voltage: Intermission

While I'm in a video posting mood, here's what could be considered a lost gem: footage of the world premiere of Intermission, a performance piece by Talan Memmott and Eric Snodgrass at Cabaret Voltage in June 2011.
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Gigs

International Translation Day: Saskia de Jong’s ‘pier’

In honour of St Jerome and International Translation Day, I've posted below my first ever translation, being a version of Saskia de Jong's poem 'pier', originally published in Dutch in her book resistent (Uitgeverij Prometheus, 2006). Yay for translators!
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Friends

Interrogating Electronic Literature

The footage for this video was taken during the ELMCIP workshop on electronic literature and new media held in Ljubljana, Slovenia last week.
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Friends

Art Line comes to Karlskrona!

In October, Art Line comes to Karlskrona, with a range of events planned, including a seminar on digital art.
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