Davey Dreamnation

In July last year I attended the World Haiku Association conference East Meets West in Sofia, Bulgaria. One of the organisers of the conference, Ginka Biliarska, who was kind enough to meet us at the airport and pay for our taxi into the city, had previously asked if I would like to do a little [...]

two fluffy white buns
filled with nothing but hot air
ah, spring in beijing! 

outside my window
a hundred games of mah-jonng
spring rain in shanghai

hear the wet kittens
mewling for their lost mother
must we eat bamboo?

enjambement
breaks into sunshine like a
dog upon a pond
reflections collide
in the state forests full of
green ukrainians
built a big square pool
a private lesiure centre
up past anglesea
beware the great ocean
roads corrugation wonder
tyres love the earths drains
some shattered morning
a koala a chainsaw
australian dreams
of horizontal
views of empty posession
of a level plane
up past angahook
beyond the loggers canvas
camps desolation
sounds like yesterday
bitterness as [...]

Dusk. The freeway’s haze;
Green Australian gum trees
Soak up the spectrum.
Sparrows [...]

A few months ago I was asked to be part of a renga with Keiji Minato (a Kyoto-based poet whom I had the great pleasure to meet last year) and another Japanese poet named Hiroshi. We wrote ku in turns, with Keiji translating between Hiroshi and myself. Here’s what we wrote. The letters in brackets [...]

ho chi minh city
motorcycle touts in wait
around the corner
hello where you from
give me all your aussie coins
for my collection
non-touristique trek
departing soon or later
same same but different
yesterday’s papers
in the streets of vietnam
matthew hayden’s runs
satellite tv
in nha trang it’s not working
in hoi an, it is
i’m all out of love
got married to the muzac
hot (for elton john)