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Category: Gigs
Contains essential information about upcoming Davey Dreamnation shows, concert performances and mime cabaret experiments.
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Reading at La Trobe University!
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The La Trobe English Program is running a 12 week reading series entitled Eggs & Roses, with a couple of writers—emerging or established, La Trobean or from further afield—reading each week. For anyone (someone?) who will be at the La Trobe Bundoora campus this Thursday from 4:30 til 6pm, I’ll be reading in room 431…
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QPF Redux
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I’m kicking myself that I didn’t take the opportunity while I was in Bris Vegas to grab one of the posters for the Queensland Poetry Festival, in which I was lucky enough to take part. Still, I did manage to grab a copy of the festival program (cue image, left – featuring my escort for…
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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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MWF Redux
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It’s been so long since I posted here (I blame Facecrack, personally). It really is about time I wrote something. So what’s news? Well, the truth is that I’ve been in and out of rehab since my book launch at the Melbourne Writers Festival, almost three weeks ago. That’s what happens when you choose to…
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In conversation with John Tranter
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It’s not mentioned anywhere on the MWF programme so I’ll forgive you for not believing me but I’m excited to say that on Sunday September 2, at 1pm, I’ll have the pleasure of partaking in a conversation with Australian poet John Tranter. Not just over a glass of bubbly (although I suspect red wine or…
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NYWF program now online – UNTOLD!
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Maybe I’ve had too many coffees, maybe I’m cracked out on Codral, or maybe I’m just in a hurry but the good news is that the program for the 2007 National Young Writers Festival is now online, and it’s bulk ace. It’s been a few years since I went to Newie, so it’s good to…
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Soi3 at the Melbourne Writers Festival
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The Melbourne Writers Festival programme is now online and I’m happy to say that there’s a fair bit of poetry this year. While most of the guests seem to be the usual suspects, it’s great to see that js harry will be appearing, although I think I’ll give Clive James and Les Murray a wide…
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Queensland Poetry Festival program now online!
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In news that’s sure to raise the levels of dams all over the country, the Queensland Poetry Festival program has been uploaded onto their website.
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I am surrounded by genii
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After four days of literary jauntiness and speed intellectualism, I’m beginning to feel a bit like Richie Watts after attending the Comedy Festival – blown-out, exhausted and thrilled by the sheer number of genii (or should that be geniuses – whatevs) presently living, breathing and creating stuff for people like you and me to enjoy.…
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EWF – uh-huh, uh-huh!
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The Emerging Writers’ Festival is on again this weekend, and it’s packed with interesting panels, readings, speeches and games of Scrabble. This will be Festival Director Stevie Grimwade’s second tilt at the gig, and it promises to be lively. I’ll be chairing a panel on Saturday at 12 noon, entitled Where’s the new avant garde?…
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Gig at La Mama!
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What a way to begin the month of March – ie, by looking forward to the month of April, my favourite month of the year! Yes, that’s right – as the flier above explains clearly enough on its own, I’ve been invited to read at the April edition of La Mama Poetica, MCed by tech-queen…
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Swing It Low!
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Poetry Picture Show Event This Friday!
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FRIDAY 6TH OCTOBER THE POETRY PICTURE SHOW PRESENTED BY THE RED ROOM COMPANY WITH SUPPORT FROM WALES ARTS INTERNATIONAL AND THE AUSTRALIA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS ten poems about film and moving images, performed live by the poets alongside the premiere of ten moving image adaptations of the poems. the online video and audio versions…
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Abendland chapbook launched in Frankston!
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I’m not usually one to go for publicity, prferring instead to slave anonymously over my poetry, honing my arcane craft in the desloate silence of my eyrie, but when I got a call from uber-poet and drop-dead spunk alicia sometimes asking if I’d like to come and talk to her writing students at Chisholm TAFE…
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Guru Josh, Softblow & GDS
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Last night’s Going Down Swinging launch, held at Yelza in Fitzroy, was great fun. So much fun in fact that I’m only now on the verge of consciousness, my detox plans having been shredded, thrown out and then reassembled by the mysterious power of Guru Josh, whose track “Infinity” is only slightly overshadowed by its…