Author: Davey Dreamnation

  • DNRC086 | LP | 2017

  • How many times can the name Chris de Burgh be mentioned on a poster before it starts to look, I don’t know, creepy? I really like the attention to detail in this shot, right down to the watch and wedding ring. The fringe could do with a bit of work, though.

  • Even as the dust begins to settle on We Will Disappear, there’s no time for a busy poet like me to rest. I’m proud to announce that I’ve got a new chapbook out through the highly-esteemed Vagabond Press, whose editor Michael Brennan runs the Poetry International Australia website, and who is, by the way, a…

  • 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 reading in room 431…

  • 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.

  • DNRC085 | 5LP | 2016

  • 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,…

  • It’s a bit weird when a journal you edit publishes a review of a book you’ve written. But I can live with that.

  • 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…

  • a lot of empty places at these tables here-ah our drummer jumped off the brighton pier (ha count me in with the beats mark e smith (ta dah! screw my lightbulb honey brat sonically sophisticated buy a round of drinks-ah sorry your services no longer etc … squizzle! boss says “random quote generate-ah” live at…

  • over there where you’re laying down down amongst the styrofoam cups & album cover broken glass bra straps honey power coming all over me me & you with your oh fantastic english got me high & left me there stranger with a honey tongue warm between the vinyl EPs wet beneath the stylus rooms in…

  • Bruises

    he bites into the apple eats the bruises soft & brown like sugary endings (rayon bites the bruises cuts them clean out & spits the skin onto the crusty pavement sucks the bruises (swallows them whole into the apple of his insides & scratches & bruises yes just there soft like blisters just beneath the…

  • 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…

  • DNRC084 | LP | 2016