Davey Dreamnation

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’ [...]

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

Issue 1, edited by Stephen McLaughlin and Jim Carpenter purports to be a 3,785 page anthology of new poetry, published in PDF format under the for godot imprint. The front cover of the anthology lists, in miniature print, the names of all contributors. These names have also been posted on Ron Silliman’s blog, so I [...]

Last June I wrote about my Bloglines Dream Team, based on the number of entries posted by 18 fellow bloggers. You may recall that while I was having trouble ever logging into, let alone reading from, the Bloglines web reader, when I did finally gain access it gave me a snapshot of activity on these [...]

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; [...]

After lengthy delays, Cordite 27 Experience is now ready to go, with new poetry posted daily beginning February 8 2008 - hey, that was last week! Yikes!
Join our guest editor, actor-poet sensation Terry Jaensch and share the experiences of some of Australia’s most innovative and savvy poets! With a beautiful cover image by Emilie Zoey [...]

Well, it’s been a while between drinks for me as far as gigs are concerned but all that’s about to change with the incredibly bulk ace news that I’ll be featuring - alongside deep-fried sock dumpling expert Alicia Sometimes - at a forthcoming edition of Brunswick’s finest poetry reading, Passionate Tongues!
Or as I like [...]

It’s funny how sometimes you can feel closer to somebody you’ve never met than to people you see every day. This is the way I feel about poets with whom I have communicated via the Net and email, as well as through submission inivtations and so on. One of the poets whom I feel would [...]

Maybe I’ve had too many coffees, maybe I’m cracked out on Codral, or maybe I’m just in a hurry but the good news is that the program for the 2007 National Young Writers Festival is now online, and it’s bulk ace.
It’s been a few years since I went to Newie, so it’s good to see [...]

The Material Poem is a new e-anthology edited by James Stuart and published by non-generic productions. The blurb on the site says: “It features the work of some 28 Australian poets, artists and critics, all of whom are engaged with poetry, and more broadly language, as a material form. This body of work is inter-disciplinary, [...]

UPDATE: JUST FREE WATER IS NOW ON MYSPACE!
Patrick Jones is a conundrum: installationist, artist, provocateur, former bookshop owner and - yes, let’s say it - poet. Readers of Cordite would be familiar with Patrick’s contributions to the magazine over a period of years, including his cover image for Issue #11 (Pandora archive link) way [...]

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!