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Day-to-day minutiae.

  • We Will Disappear: the first review!

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    It’s a bit weird when a journal you edit publishes a review of a book you’ve written. But I can live with that.

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  • We Will Disappear: The Fallout Continues

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    For those of you who like to gawk at Flickr streams, click on the above image to be instantly transported to a series of images from the Melbourne launch of We Will Disappear, courtesy of photographer Macushla Burke. The latest issue of papertiger media’s Tiger Talk newsletter also includes some details from the recent Soi3…

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  • Tranter Redux

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    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…

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  • No sleep till funtold!

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    Get your launching shoes awn.

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  • CHMOD: “Permissions”

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    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

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  • Poems in OCHO

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    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…

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  • Klare Lanson: Chaos and Collaboration

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    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…

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  • The Material Poem

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    The Material Poem is a new e-anthology edited by James Stuart and published by non-generic productions. The blurb on the site says: The Material Poem features the work of some 28 Australian poets, artists and critics, all of whom are engaged with poetry, and more broadly language, as a material form. This body of work…

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  • It’s all happening heya!

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    … 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…

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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • We Will Disappear!

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    I’m dizzy.

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