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’ [...]

Here’s some pictures from my time at the jaw-dropping 3 day PICNIC08 conference. Lasers not shown.

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; [...]

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 [...]

On Thursday 6 December I’ll be giving a presentation on my nearly-completed PhD thesis, entitled ‘Bonfire of the Vanity Presses: Self-Publishing in the Field of Australian Literature’. The seminar will be held at Swinburne University of Technology (Hawthorn campus), where I am studying at the Institute for Social Research. It’ll be held from 12.30-2 pm, [...]

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 [...]

In addition to the reading and panels I’ll be doing at NYWF in Newcastle, it’s my pleasure to announce that the latest issue of Cordite Poetry Review will be officially launched as part of the Mega Mega Launch!
The launch will be held on Saturday Sep 29th, from 6-7.30pm at the Festival Club (Ground Floor, [...]

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 [...]

My conversation with John Tranter at the Melbourne Writers Festival was a surprisingly pleasant and interesting affair. I say surprisingly because I was nervous as all get-up beforehand - due mostly to the fact that for me, John Tranter has always been a somewhat larger-than-life figure. I studied his work in the early 1990s, at [...]

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 [...]

It’s not mentioned anywhere on the MWF programme so I’ll forgive you for not believing me but I’m excited to say that on Sunday September 2, at 1pm, I’ll have the pleasure of partaking in a conversation with Australian poet John Tranter. Not just over a glass of bubbly (although I suspect red wine or [...]

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 [...]