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Author: Davey Dreamnation

Davey Dreamnation (1972–?) is an Australalian musician, vocalist, pirate and record-label owner who now lives ‘in the third person’. View his full biography.

  • Patrick Jones: ebay activism

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    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…

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  • Cordite 26: Innocence (2007)

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    Okay so I’m still messin’ around with the index page but the basic news is that Cordite 26 – Innocence is now online! It features 55 poems by 31 bulk ace and fully untold poets, all selected anonymously by our guest poetry editor, MTC Cronin. Dive in and taste the sweetness that is Cordite 26…

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  • Interview on Metaroar!

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    In a nice piece of synchronicity, UK poetry website Metaroar has posted an article (view Wayback Machine version) by Angela Meyer in which she interviews Jill Jones (who testimonialised my book), Paul Hardacre (who is publishing my book) and myself (who, ehm, wrote my book) on the subject of our poetic practices and other burning…

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  • Soi3 at the Melbourne Writers Festival

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    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…

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  • Interview with Paul Hardacre

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    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…

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  • My(sp)ace(face)boo(Lin)k(edin) WTF?

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    G’day mates, Davey here again with just a few of my most recent thoughts, right off the top of my Akubra, about social networks, being cool and all that stuff. Because I know that some of you are just a little bit confused about what it all means. So, for your reading pleasure, I’m going…

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  • It’s a Book!

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    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…

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  • Queensland Poetry Festival program now online!

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    In news that’s sure to raise the levels of dams all over the country, the Queensland Poetry Festival program has been uploaded onto their website.

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  • Two Signs That Speak For Themselves

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    A couple of weeks ago I tried to put up some pictures from my time as a Professor at Sogang University in Seoul in 2005. Unfortunately, the images seemed to slow down the loading of my whole site, and so I put the post on ice. Until now. Above, one of my Australian Culture students…

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  • We Will Disappear!

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    I’m dizzy.

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  • It’s all in the stats – really.

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    Breakdown of first year Media Studies students’ choice of essay questions by theme: 1. Reality TV (14 essays) 2. Narrative (12) 3. Semiotics (7) 4. Postmodernism (5) 5. Celebrity (5) 6. News Media (3) 7. Culture Jamming (2) 8. Realism (0)

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  • American Creek II

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    i. Leaves that flick at the years before me, maniacal, seething. The first of a now-suburban dead. With nobody watching him he softly buried grass. I chomp on weeds & in my sleep bears make me wear things that keep out the sound of American Creek. The wet candle is in the ground, all by…

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  • Ernie Malvern

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    To chew on grass in the sunshine. To lick at the yolks of eggs, or bright & fern-dappled sunlight out in the yard. The trees crack like whips & faraway the southerly, the change comes. It’s worst at night, beneath the porch, as the spin dryer hums & the gums drop leaves that flick at…

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  • Betty Malvern

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    Betty Malvern with a bee. Here’s my sisterly path, the secret way. Through the woods, into the sunlight for a sec. Token uniform a spot of brown by the creek. Small whorls of dirt in the clear water, like washing a coffee cup first in a sink olf sudsy white, like a beach. Clouded eyes…

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  • Little Lord Damnation

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    Greetings, earthlings. LL Damnation here, with an update on the highly successful guerilla marketing campaign we are currently conducting for DNRC Records. You may not even realise that it’s happening, but that doesn’t mean it is. The idea stemmed from some research we did on the daveydreamnation.com portal and some highly-charged focus groups, which told…

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