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Author: Davey Dreamnation
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imaginary cities: cubi —
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2 min read
City of miniature cities, laid out on lawns like picnic lunches, skyscrapers made from sweetstuffs, syringes for telecommunications towers, lights blinking away the loneliness of miniature people gazing up at the stars. City of landing strips and vertical automobile repositories filled with carcasses of crashes long extinct, shards of steel bone and empty rearview mirrors.…
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imaginary cities: coni —
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2 min read
City of sleepy subways and swift downstrokes. City of empty apartments and overcrowded hostels. A city without inhabitants, only visitors. Disgruntled in their winter jackets, following memorised but outdated itineraries, tourists wander but do not take photographs. Information is posted on streetcorners but it has been superannuated. City of scripts and small change. Sweet rays…
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imaginary cities: cloni —
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2 min read
Downtown in the city of greige skylines: muskrats grope for cinnamon oranges in the shadows of a giant air-conditioning outlet. Who can see, who can ever tell. I yawned through the catalogue of an important import-export agency and then left the quiet surrounds of the riverside precinct for the subway station. Here, one finds the…
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imaginary cities: capa — (용량)
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3 min read
Autumn in the city of snow-stolen leaves. City of donkey’s eggs. City of the never-sleeping conduits, of seasonal employment as a street-painter. Reporting for duty, I am issued with a broom and a facsimile of a work of art. I am told that I must re-create this work of art by sweeping selected leaves from…
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Korean Modern Poets Association
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3 min read
Last Tuesday I was invited to read some poems at a meeting of the Korean Modern Poets Association, being held at the prestigious Sejong Cultural Centre in Seoul. I’m not sure what the purpose of the reading was, although someone told me that it was National Poetry Day in Korea. In any case, I was…
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Literary experimental travel: via your bookshelf
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6 min read
As any avid reader knows, the journey of the mind is the greatest voyage of all. Regardless of where you are or the state of your finances, literary experimental travel gives you a ticket to ride—even though your physical destination may be no further than your nearest bookshelf or library. Literary experimental travel gives you…
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imaginary cities: cadu —
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2 min read
Lost city of the broken draft, Cadu is a pile of turnips rotting in the moonlight, begging for a trundle. Sagacious as a small pea, its typical inhabitant wears a crown upon his head to hold his mirrors in. While the powers of the crown have been disabled, still its physical properties bear mentioning. In…
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imaginary cities: basi —
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2 min read
Go back to Basi. Get silly fresh. Tidy your hair. Check that every memory you can recall is actually yours. You may not get another chance to protest at the passing of time with such rigour. In Basi, where all the men wear shoulder pads, hoaxes are committed on a daily basis. Don’t be worried,…
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imaginary cities: auda —
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2 min read
Auda, city of burnt grass and black limousines. City of nudes and spider lilies. How the grass stands up even though it is on fire, whistling a harvest tune. By the railway lines, entropy rules: jagged weeds and mystery melons scramble for space, riddling the rails, disguising the sleepers with their fantastic tendrils. Like a…
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imaginary cities: atro —
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2 min read
This city with no streets but networks of amputated limbs. This officious city of criminal investigations and inquests whose soul is a square of cheap, grey carpet and a water dispenser. The tinkle of pachinko, the sudden sirens of attack. Those women with the hand bills, so stubborn and intent upon their mission, invading the…
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Photos from my first few days in Seoul
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3 min read
My friend Steve, whom I met during my first week in Seoul, has kindly forwarded me some snaps he took during that time. It seems so long ago now – the days were insufferably hot and the evenings were beer-soaked. I tell you, it’s hard to enjoy a beer in this town when the temperature’s…
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imaginary cities: anti —
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2 min read
A city of terminals.
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Seoulku
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1 min read
hear the wet kittens mewling for their lost mother must we eat bamboo?
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Jetlag world
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2 min read
Wake up calm. It will be morning soon. Hours disappear, then shatter at the sound of a phone call (wrong number). Your mobile bleats when it’s time to change the battery, in that awfully disconnected voice that’s had reverb added to it, in the room where you remain alone. Eat a mandarin. That’s better. No…
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Teaching in Korea …
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5 min read
[This is the full text of an article due to appear in the National Tertiary Education Union’s publication Advocate early next year] In August this year I travelled to the Republic of Korea this year as an Asialink resident to teach at Sogang University in Seoul. While I have some teaching experience in Australia and…