Davey Dreamnation

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.

It’s a quiet kind of milestone but my book We Will Disappear was launched one year ago this weekend at the Melbourne Writers Festival. Quiet in the sense that I am about ten thousand miles from this year’s MWF, where some class acts and friends will be performing at the MWF Festival Club and elsewhere; [...]

My debut poetry collection We Will Disappear has been reviewed in the Weekend Australian, alongside Event, the debut collection from Judith Bishop. The review, by Justin Clemens, was positive about both books, so I’m thrilled! Here’s a snippet:
If Bishop favours the high aesthetic road, Prater — editor of the online journal Cordite Poetry Review [...]

The La Trobe English Program is running a 12 week reading series entitled Eggs & Roses, with a couple of writers - emerging or established, La Trobean or from further afield - reading each week. For anyone (someone?) who will be at the La Trobe Bundoora campus this Thursday from 4:30 til 6pm, I’ll be [...]

Poet, criminologist, anti-fascist and paranoia merchant alicia sometimes has written and recorded a bulk ace review of my book for ABC Radio National’s The Book Show. Click here for transcript and audio. Here’s a taster of what she has to say:
One striking thing about this collection is how deeply Prater is influenced by the [...]

In somewhat amazing news, Cordite has just published a double review of We Will Disappear and MTC Cronin’s book (we recently also published a single review of Barry Hill’s book).
I should point out that the review was not commissioned, edited or posted by me but by our reviews editor, Ali Alizadeh. Further, the review [...]

For those of you who like to gawk at Flickr streams, click on the above image to be instantly transported to a series of images from the Melbourne launch of We Will Disappear, courtesy of photographer Macushla Burke.
The latest issue of papertiger media’s Tiger Talk newsletter also includes some details from the recent Soi3 [...]

I’m kicking myself that I didn’t take the opportunity while I was in Bris Vegas to grab one of the posters for the Queensland Poetry Festival, in which I was lucky enough to take part. Still, I did manage to grab a copy of the festival program (cue image, left - featuring my escort for [...]

It’s been so long since I posted here (I blame Facecrack, personally). It really is about time I wrote something. So what’s news? Well, the truth is that I’ve been in and out of rehab since my book launch at the Melbourne Writers Festival, almost three weeks ago. That’s what happens when you choose to [...]

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 [...]

… 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 [...]

The Melbourne Writers Festival programme is now online and I’m happy to say that there’s a fair bit of poetry this year. While most of the guests seem to be the usual suspects, it’s great to see that js harry will be appearing, although I think I’ll give Clive James and Les Murray a wide [...]

This one seemed to slip under the radar at the time, but for the sake of archiving and posterity, I’ve reproduced here an interview Paul Hardacre conducted with me a month ago for papertiger’s TIGER TALK e-newsletter, on the subject of my forthcoming book. By the way, did you know that you can now pre-order [...]

On Monday night I came home from uni half-hoping that a copy of We Will Disappear had arrived in the mail. All that was waiting for me, however, was a statement from my bank telling me how little money I have, and even that was two weeks out of date. I tried to fling the [...]

In all the excitement of preparing myself mentally, physically and spiritually for the launch of We Will Disappear, I totally forgot to mention one very important piece of information - the book has now been officially testimonialised, or blurbed as we say in the industry by the very talented and wonderfully generous Jill Jones!