Author: Davey Dreamnation
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A veteran of the club scene
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panic on the streets of south yarra geez they shut us down when im peaking its a ripoff shits been cut with something maybe brain juices? not mine got the tipoff said get rid of em ages ago i loved to dance though dont seem to have the energy anymore im still here propping up…
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Tribesco debuts at #5
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[d/dn] has returned triumphantly to the mp3.com.au charts, with a blistering attack on its upper reaches. Just one week after its release, the slow-burning Tribesco has debuted at #5 on the lo-fi single charts. Even more ominously, [d/dn] himself sits at #2 on the artist charts and should reach #1 as a matter of course.…
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Strike A Prose!
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Well, he did it with the Mike Oldfield Five and now it’s time for Davey aka Clint the 1980s Budgie Smuggler to strut his stuff once again. This pic was taken by STW (who else?) on the weekend during a video shoot for “Strike A Prose”, a show being held as part of this year’s…
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OI: poewemz bii tom see
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OI: poewemz bii tom see (Cordite On Demand, 2004) Earlier this year, deciding that my life wasn’t nearly as busy as it could be, I set up an imprint for Cordite Press, known as COD, or Cordite On Demand. Its aims were pretty ambitious – basically a complete shake-up of the Australian publishing industry. While…
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[d/dn] releases split 7″
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In news from mp3.com.au, it appears Davey Dreamnation has risen from the dead. His latest offering is a double single, “48 Bars” b/w “Tribesco”. Rumour has it that he intends to release the Tribesco LP before the end of the year. We’ll see if that ever eventuates.
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Farnsie’s anti-competitive!
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F*** I hate Farnsie. How that man has leeched the culture out of this country. It wasn’t always this way. I mean, “You’re the Voice” was a wake-up call for Australia. It featured bagpipes – a la “It’s a long way …” and “Under the Milky Way ..” – and I have to admit the…
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the house that cortez built
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he will tear it down himself the robots! the robots! the mud-made robots! each one he sends off into the jungle with a fig-leaf for a heart and another for modesty “ah, yes, fair senorita,” he says, “i built these walls myself but now i must go to market” these words seem strange, even as…
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Renga
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A few months ago I was asked to be part of a renga with Keiji Minato (a Kyoto-based poet whom I had the great pleasure to meet last year) and another Japanese poet named Hiroshi. We wrote ku in turns, with Keiji translating between Hiroshi and myself. Here’s what we wrote. The letters in brackets…
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Cordite #19
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Well they said we’d never make it. This, the nineteenth issue of Cordite Poetry Review, has turned out to be our biggest and most varied so far for 2004. With nineteen poems (appropriately enough) plus a collection of Slivers by Ian McBryde, Anti/Heroes is packed with more poetic moments than a tin of sonnets. Speaking…
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Post-holocaust tram
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I wrote this poem after visiting Hiroshima for the first time in 2004. It was later published in my first full-length poetry collection, We Will Disappear (2007). While we remember August 6 as the day Hiroshima died, and August 9 as the day the same fate was handed to Nagasaki, I personally was not aware…
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nthposition update!
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Things move quickly in the world of publishing, let me tell you. Not one week since my poems “kyoto crow(s)” and “tonkatsu zen” appeared in nthposition but blow me down, they’ve decided to include “kyoto crow(s)” in an anthology, called ‘In the criminal’s cabinet’. It’ll be a book, and it’ll be out in October. Jeepers!…
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Poems in nthposition!
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Today two of my poems, kyoto crow(s) & tonkatsu zen, have been published in the very kewl online magazine, nthposition. The site is not just about poetry: there’s articles, rants and a downloadable Axis of Evil Cookbook, containing recipes from Iran, Iraq and North Korea (though as the editors point out, there are fewer North…
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Shuttle
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4 min read
Weapon le Monde was shitting himself. What with Dapto running late, evac counting down and the whine of the scarp shuttle now approaching the interexchange, chances were this day would turn out as shithouse as the last one. And the two or three before that. Okay they’ve all been shit, he thought, since the fucking…
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destinations end
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our scarborough fairs deserted the northern end of a platform edges that escarpment hatched the shining bullet & its scythes its golden eye all gone martian destination a blurs some gilded beam where perch my destinys droid parrot whirring its bleats electrified outlasting even this most energised hillside of coal thudding then caving [ghosted rails…
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CdeB and Roger Federer in duet rumour
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Chris de Burgh has wasted no time on spurious infotainment or celebrity TV circuits following his purchase of the alien from Alien, and is now back in the studio recording new tracks, one of them rumoured to be a duet with Wimbledon champion and all-round bore, Roger “Rogi” Federer. The track, a remake of de…