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More sun than clouds; sprinkles early
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said let’s buy tulips because you were homesick twenty-four hour florist late-night emergency the tulips sat inside a cool store freezer still wet & trembling fragile as a whispered wish (we said let’s buy some tulips today there’s more sun than cloud their powers are quite expensive but what does money matter (when there’s more…
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Thomas Pynchon: “Against the Day”
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14 min read
There was a time when I read books voraciously. In fact for most of my life I have read at least one book per month, if not week, meaning that if I was to enter a fund-raising read-a-thon I would most most likely send all of my sponsors broke (assuming, of course, that I didn’t…
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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 For those with long memories, the Search issue came out in January 2004, however the experiment itself was originally enacted on the Poetry Espresso mailing list as part…
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Jess Malvern
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The creek’s steam mingles with our gossip, picking apart other peoples’ reputations, as we do. The morning stream calls. I ran out of the house, missing the fern by millimetres. In a way this flood is funny. It washes so much of the year away. It’s as if we were caught stealing or smoking cigarettes,…
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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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Clichés: “At The Height Of Their Powers”
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DNRC077 | 7″ | 2011
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Afternoon Clouds Sprinkles
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Reading your electrical poems in a Northcote bar in winter made me long for Sydney where July was windy and wet but not cold. I sat in a laudromat once, read Faulkner to stay warm – & by September the frangipani was exploding along the Chippendale lanes. A sock got cold. I tramped through Central…
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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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The Dapto Dogs: “Racing!”
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DNRC076 | EP | 2011
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A little-known fact about this collection is that it was banned in South Africa at the time, due to mentions of the ‘devil’ in the title poem.
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chmod r-w-x
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read she changed mode from mod to journo helsinki bound on a sleigh west of NO! bottle-blonde furies stalking XY stage shaken three-piece tour posters blur write lyrics in crayon lying dead in a field frozen shut her eyebrow raised when she plays my ipod says NO WA(VE)Y! like sue me helsinki! (art school’s ok…
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Rabbit Roulette
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we’re beta refugees playing rabbit roulette on an insula island in some cerebral cortex the day my grandmother turned to smoke the white rabbits sat on the long wet grass white rivers of paper insulin dependencies territorial misgivings siblings incinerations don’t let this be our last conversation mate you’ll be heavy inside that casket i…
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The Police reform (while Stung seethes)
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Who was it that said Nero fiddled while Rome burned? Well scrap that, Poindexter, coz The Police have decided to reform and are set to embark on a huge world tour, just in time for the 30th anniversary of Sting’s brain transplant. The tour is even set to include Australasia, and don’t write off the…
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Davey Dreamnation: Themes
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DNRC075 | EP | 2010 | DELETED
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In Defence of Poetry (and Poets)
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This rant was reposted in Famous Reporter.