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Day-to-day minutiae.

  • Snowy!

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    My poem Snowy has been published in Snorkel 6 alongside untold work by Pam Brown, Todd Swift, Greg McLaren and many more!

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  • Site re-vamp etc …

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    In an effort to break the world procrastination record, I’ve spent most of today re-vamping this site’s design, mostly by riffing off a neat three column WordPress theme originally created by refueled.net that is, according to their website, “perfect for churches or other non-profits”. You can see why I was immediately interested. In other news,…

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  • I’ve obviously missed my calling in life

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    How many times can the name Chris de Burgh be mentioned on a poster before it starts to look, I don’t know, creepy? I really like the attention to detail in this shot, right down to the watch and wedding ring. The fringe could do with a bit of work, though.

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  • Morgenland chapbook out now!

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    Even as the dust begins to settle on We Will Disappear, there’s no time for a busy poet like me to rest. I’m proud to announce that I’ve got a new chapbook out through the highly-esteemed Vagabond Press, whose editor Michael Brennan runs the Poetry International Australia website, and who is, by the way, a…

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  • We Will Disappear: the second review!

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    Poet, criminologist, anti-fascist and paranoia merchant alicia sometimes has written and recorded a bulk ace review of my book for ABC Radio National’s The Book Show.

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  • Cordite at NYWF Mega-Mega Launch!

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    In addition to the reading and panels I’ll be doing at NYWF in Newcastle, it’s my pleasure to announce that the latest issue of Cordite Poetry Review will be officially launched as part of the Mega Mega Launch! The launch will be held on Saturday Sep 29th, from 6-7.30pm at the Festival Club (Ground Floor,…

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  • 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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