Contains essential information about upcoming Davey Dreamnation shows, concert performances and mime cabaret experiments.
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 Klare Lanson this Monday 16th April at 8pm. Yippee!
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 of the poems will be broadcast
following the event and the national community radio broadcast of the poems (4/10)
Starring:
Ivy Alvarez, Emma Jones, John Tranter, JS Harry, David Prater, Sarah Holland Batt, Felicity Plunkett, Briohny Doyle, Kate Lilley and Nathan Shepherdson.
DATE: FRIDAY 6TH OCTOBER
TIME: 6pm
WHERE: OLD DARLINGTON SCHOOL, REDFERN
(behind Sydney University’s Wentworth Building) view map
COST: entry by donation
FOR MORE DETAILS VISIT THE RED ROOM WEBSITE
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 today, I spied a self-promotional opportunity. All of yesterday was spent formatting documents, photocopying images and wrestling with staplers and yes, it was a tricky thing but I did manage to put together ten copies of my chapbook Abendland, my first since The Happy Farang way back in 2000. The chabook contains poems I wrote during a two month holiday in Europe and the US last year. You can read all of the poems online here, but I should mention that these are early drafts of the poems, some of which have changed radically since being written. Plus, I mean, a chapbook is a pretty cool thing to have with you when you’re on the tram, or hanging with your poetry peeps. alicia’s students seemed to have the same idea, almost completely clearing me out of stock! If you’d like to purchase a copy for the princely sum of $5, email me and we can arrange something. Otherwise, I’m open to swaps, even if all you’ve got is a dubbed cassette version of Rattle and Hum. It takes all sorts.
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 b-side, the “Spacey Saxophone Mix”.
Words cannot begin to express the effect that this song, this man, this ouevre have had on me over the past fifteen years. Suffice it to say, the guy is completely untold.
Also untold and slightly bulk ace, the Singapore-based webzine Softblow features one new poem (“Back To the Tourist III”) and two of my imaginary cities, namely “Coni” and “Cubi”. Read them at Softblow today!
But if there was an award for bulk ace, it’d surely have to go to outgoing GDS editor and owner of her own rollerskates, alicia sometimes. Last night, I believe, marked her sixteen thousandth public appearance, and for that reason alone, I salute her. Bulk ace and fully untold!
