Author: Davey Dreamnation

  • Levelling

    1. returning from the graveyard to rise a level like william faulkner said i made it on a bevel 2. we first met near a pixel in eversong woods jo, our avatars dealt out some serious blows! 3. oh we fought for hours against the ironic orcs my sinister strike & your magnificent stealth 4.…

  • While most of my Australian friends sweat it out in typical summer fashion, here’s what we’ve got to look forward to over the next two days:

  • when you could see it coming coming at you like a giant giant ball of lead or something something heavy cold & dead death contained a hint of fear fear faded & quickly passed passed to an even higher plane planet heavy cold & gone; going to some future island island where the lonely go…

  • True story, bruh.

  • Today is St Lucy’s Day or, in Swedish, ‘Luciadagen’.

  • Jeju-do is an island off the south coast of Korea (Hangul: 제주도), famous for its resorts but also for the so-called Jeju uprising of 1948–49. Gangjeong is a small village on the south coast of Jeju-do which is home to an anti-nuclear Peace Zone. The village mayor, Kang Dong Kyun, regularly protests against military activities…

  • down here in the dead ideas office we mark all your thoughts as read don’t be alarm’d it’s just routine most people’s are a waste of space & friday’s pay day so we slack off just a bit (long enough for a wink long enough for you to emote a hit or a telepathic experience…

  • Cordite Poetry Review No. 36: Electronica Poetry Editor: Jill Jones Released: 1 December 2011 Cover image: Maxine Clarke Pandora archive (NLA)

  • incantations iv: I feel all my childood & its dreams in this video my father & his brothers & their seventies stereos: born into the space age watching all the menus collapse like when you plonk a person somewhere deep IN SPAAAAAACE! well, what does that make synthesisers, then – pop? billions of commenters on…

  • heya cometh everyboddeeee! right out of the sleigh: purring like honey from a see-through plastic bag! & the dread, the dead night-cruise drops its beats & sings ‘la la la la la la laaaaaaa’ like a lidl lamb! hey did i dream all of that? or are we all still here, shouting ‘ship to shore’…

  • Last week I got an untold message from Pascalle Burton: “I am delighted to announce that the Bumper Poetry Issue of The Lavender Room Zine-in-a-Matchbox is here!”

  • Image: Steve Shelley and Thurston Moore – of Sonic Youth and, later, Dim Stars – interviewed on Japanese television, 1988, complete with sunglasses.

  • just how did the moon stay magnetic? answer: something to do with the sea or the way the dolphin cow calls to her calf: a little click – there, maybe a whistle, every second or so, then a brief empty eternal moment before she echolocates that tiny response – whether far away or close -…

  • Image: Happy Pepero Day: 11-11-2011!

  • Envoi

    This poem was published as the final editorial for Cordite Poetry Review 35: Oz–Ko, a special bilingual edition in hangul and English. The poem contains the titles (originally in hangul) of all of the poems in issue 35.2: Oz–Ko: Hanguk–Hoju. Read the original poem on the Cordite site.