Blackbox Manifold
I’m really pleased to say that three works from my Leaves of Glass MS – namely, ‘Cute’, ‘Rivet’ and ‘Swagman Ted’ – have found an electronic home in UK-based online journal Blackbox Manifold. I’ve almost lost count of how many…
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New poems in Jacket!
Leaves of Glass finds a home, of sorts, in [a] Jacket.
VWC, Kurungabaa, Southerly (IWD)
Things have been pretty quiet
Gowayz ob LOL: Iz In Ur Bodeh xtrc,
1. Iz in ur bodeh xtrc, Teh rms ob dey iz luvs purr meh. Iz w00t an iz purr dey, Dey not want! meh purr till iz go wif dey, respawnd dey, An puur dey, an den WTF dey ful…
Unfinished Draft (1)
We had an important event at our place on the 13th ult. -our first little one. We are going to call him Eric Whitman.
—Bernard O'Dowd, writing to Walt Whitman (1890)
W00t Wiitmeh: “To ah Commawn Pron”
B ceiling cat – b at eez wif meh – Iz r W00t Wiitmeh, libaral az lusteh Naychar; Not want till teh sun xclusd yu, do I xclusds yu; Not want till teh watars refewez rutsl can haz yu, an…
Gowayz ob LOL: Sawng ob Meh (O Hai!)
An Ceiling Cat sayed, im in ur waterz makin a ceiling. LOLCats Bible, Genesis 1:6 1. O hai iz cebrayt meh, b in ur meh, An wut I as00m yu shal as00m, Fur iz atomm belons meh as srly belons…
Jethro’s Whitman Cabinet
” … a cabinet was specially made. O’Dowd’s wife Evangeline had an uncle, Jethro Fryer, a carpenter who took on this task. SANDRA BURT i hammer nails & saw wood (to make his house of whitman his shadow cabinet not…
Cute
"... the cute and loving appreciation of my book and me by them in Australia has gone right to my heart."
—Walt Whitman, writing to Bernard O'Dowd
This poem was first published online in Blackbox Manifold (UK) and later in print in Best Australian Poems (Black Inc, 2011).
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