I’ll be channelling Dickens (or maybe just Bill Murray in Scrooged) on Tuesday 2 December, when I’ll be appearing at a London fundraising event described as ‘8 Poets in 80 minutes’. Of course, if this were a haiku gathering, that tag line would read something more along the lines of ’80 Poets in 8 minutes’ but enough about me.
Category: Gigs (page 3 of 8)
Contains essential information about upcoming Davey Dreamnation shows, concert performances and mime cabaret experiments.
Here’s some pictures from my time at the jaw-dropping 3 day PICNIC08 conference. Lasers not shown.
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Well, it’s been a while between drinks for me as far as gigs are concerned but all that’s about to change with the incredibly bulk ace news that I’ll be featuring – alongside deep-fried sock dumpling expert Alicia Sometimes – at a forthcoming edition of Brunswick’s finest poetry reading, Passionate Tongues!
Or as I like to call it, Pashing Tongues.
Okay, calm down.
Join Alicia and myself on Monday 21 January at 8:30pm at the Brunswick Hotel, Sydney Rd Brunswick (corner of Weston Street) for a cross-sectional evening of spanking word rants, chiselled good-looks and clenched jaws. There will be moving tributes to llamas. There will be ALF pyjamas. There will be poems about Pizza. Alicia and myself may even read something you know. Untold!
The order for the night, as with all Pashing Tongues events, will go a little something like this: 3 or 4 open stage readers (that’s you, kids); 1st feature set (bags not me); 2nd feature set (aka yours dewly); torlet break; features again (that’s right – twice the Sometimes, triple the Clint Bo Dean!); short break/raffle; and finally the remainder of the open stage, which will hopefully finish around 11:00-11:30.
And remember, it’s bulk ace, never retail.
Freelance, never contract.
Slow-cooked, never half-cocked socks.
On Thursday 6 December I’ll be giving a presentation on my nearly-completed PhD thesis, entitled ‘Bonfire of the Vanity Presses: Self-Publishing in the Field of Australian Literature’. The seminar will be held at Swinburne University of Technology (Hawthorn campus), where I am studying at the Institute for Social Research. It’ll be held from 12.30-2 pm, in SPW 226. I’m not going to elaborate on that address, as then people might actually come along. Here’s the summary of my paper, which is pretty much the same as my thesis abstract:
This paper investigates the creation, distribution and evaluation of self-published book-objects, with a special emphasis on self-publishing in Australian poetry. It aims to mobilise several theoretical approaches, including an historical approach to the narrative of book making, a sociological approach to authorship and the literary field, and a biographical examination of self-publishing authors. It seeks in general to marry a literary analysis of the personal contexts of self-published books with a cultural analysis of self-publishing within the field of Australian literary production as a whole. Rather than offering a basic defence of self-publishing or a textual analysis of self-published works, it seeks to reinsert self-publishing into a robust description of what Bourdieu might term the “field” of Australian poetry.
Sounds fascinating, doesn’t it?