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Day-to-day minutiae.

  • Chris de Burgh: An Appreciation

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    Once again, I’m speechless. Thanks to Sean M. Whelan for the original ‘artwork’.

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  • Weather Report Two

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    Outlook Sunny Sunny Sunny Afternoon Clouds Showers Late Morning Clouds More Sun Than Clouds High Level Clouds Temp. (?C) 13? | 24? 11? | 25? 12? | 26? 13? | 17? 13? | 25? 14? | 24? 14? | 21? Wind Speed 14 kph 6 kph 5 kph 3 kph 6 kph 6 kph 11…

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  • Weather Report One

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    Outlook High Level Clouds Sunny Sunny Mostly Sunny Morning Clouds Sunny Decreasing Cloudiness Temp. (?C) 12? | 27? 13? | 25? 11? | 26? 13? | 27? 15? | 26? 13? | 24? 13? | 27? Wind Speed 5 kph 14 kph 3 kph 6 kph 8 kph 10 kph 11 kph

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  • We Will Disappear: Full Track Listing

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    While you may rest assured that I won’t be producing an intricate online annotated version of the contents of We Will Disappear (OR AT LEAST, NOT YET!), I can at last reveal the track listing or, as we say in the industry ‘table of contents’. The final order the poems was arrived at after some…

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  • 101 Friends

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    Today Davey Dreamnation celebrated an important milestone – the signing up of his one hundred and first Myspace friend. Cynics will, predictably, moan that most of these so-called friends are just placeholder pages for bands both currently active (hello Bloc Party, Love of Diagrams, Sonic Youth, The Fauves, Boards of Canada, The Early Years, Silver…

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  • We Will Disappear and the evil demon of images

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    In the spirit of all things pertaining to rolling thunder, increasing expectations and maximising tension, I’m happy to report that my debut poetry collection We Will Disappear, to be published by soi 3, an imprint of papertiger media, is edging closer to reality. The text is currently with a proofreader and the cover artwork is…

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  • The origins of the International Search Poetry Movement

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    Today I received an email from a poet who was involved in the Cordite Poetry Review Search issue asking me about the methodology we employed in the exercise. For those with long memories, the Search issue came out in January 2004, however the experiment itself was originally enacted on the Poetry Espresso mailing list as part…

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  • Contre le sexisme!

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    Well, I read the news today and oh boy – I heard that Jean Baudrillard had died, and I thought, yeah, I should write a blog post about him, and about how his ideas of the simulacra and the evil demon of images were burnt onto the back of my eyelids as a student back…

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  • In Defence of Poetry (and Poets)

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    This rant was reposted in Famous Reporter.

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  • Poems in Otoliths

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    Three of my poems have been published in Otoliths: a magazine of many e-things! The poems, “small town fsu”, “exhale on main street” and “alles klaar?” were written while travelling in the USA and Germany in 2002, and are part of a collection called Between Empires that might, eventually, see the light of day. Otoliths…

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  • Get to work

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  • “Your poems: you will not need them.”

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    When I’m not wasting time writing record reviews about non-existent bands, poems about dysfunctional families, prose poems about imaginary cities, new definitions for strange Dutch words, the odd (yes, odd) sonnet, an occasional ode to the Buddha Machine, away on explorations in Abendland or Morgenland, posting as Clint Bo Dean in disguise and so on,…

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  • Cover Page Redux

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  • Poem in The Age

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    My poem Walt Whitman Service Area appeared in The Age today, although you might be forgiven for missing it, even if you are an avid reader of the A2 section – the poem seems to have been shrunk to a smaller font – possibly to make room for everything else on the page:

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  • We Will Disappear: it’s real!

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    Well it’s been over ten years in the making so I’m overjoyed and relieved to inform you that my debut poetry collection We Will Disappear will be released this year through soi3, an imprint of papertiger media. The book will feature between fifty and one hundred poems, including some that have already been published, both…

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