Author: Davey Dreamnation

  • 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…

  • DNRC083 | 2LP | 2016

  • Get your launching shoes awn.

  • 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…

  • This is the first draft of ‘The First Letter’, a poem which later appeared in Leaves of Glass.

  • DNRC082 | LP | 2015

  • 0600 – godawful paranoid about life in general (as secure as it gets) 0660 – probably all you need 0666 – allows anyone to read and write files in the $FILES directory 0755 – probably insecure 0777 – shooting yourself in the foot insecure

  • 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…

  • Klare Lanson is an artist working in poetry, sound, film and performance. She fuses text, gesture, electronic music and visual imagery to create experimental performance works. Klare’s performances are numerous and include the This Is Not Art Festival, Overload Poetry Festival, La Mama Theatre, The Melbourne International Arts Festival and many other live venues throughout…

  • … 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…

  • eat your cake! there isn’t any more “keep your eyes glued to the floor” left foot first then right & left again ladies pretend you’re gentle (ben, listen for the compere’s little rhyme our DJ sets the beats: just keep time roadies will escort you to the stage so let’s all read from the same…

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    testing ah testing one two three four five six – is this thing on? can you hear me up the back there? no? okay how about now? that’s good that’s better (okay damn the PA what i came here to say is quite simple really (just listen to me now you’ve heard what everybody else…

  • DNRC081 | 7″ | 2015