Monthly Archives: October 2009
Miscellaneous Voices
Miscellaneous Press are getting behind the blogging revolution and have put the call out for the best submissions of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and artwork by Australian bloggers to be featured in their forthcoming publication, Miscellaneous Voices: Australian Blog Writing 2009. … Continue reading
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Fallen Leaves
I step lightly over fallen leaves bend down to gather them between thumb and forefinger. I carry them to the old pier where I cast them into the river. Some drift into the mangroves some get drenched by waves … Continue reading
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SpeedPoets: last drinks for 2009
If you are anywhere near Brisbane this coming Sunday (November 1), and you like your poetry live, then head along to SpeedPoets. This Sunday brings the curtain down on the events eighth year and there is no plan of slowing down… … Continue reading
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Spoken Word – what’s in a name?
In my previous post, The Happiness Project, I used the term ‘spoken word’ in reference to Charles Spearin’s latest CD: “This is a truly unique spoken word album and one well worth delving into.” So, I was really interested to read a response … Continue reading
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The Happiness Project
I came across a copy of Charles Spearin’s Happiness Project today and feel so much richer for it. Spearin, founding member of Do Make Say Think & member of Broken Social Scene has put together an album based around the … Continue reading
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Happy Birthday Pablo Picasso
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. – Pablo Picasso Happy 128th Pablo*… now over to The Modern Lovers. Pablo Picasso Well some people try to pick up girls And get … Continue reading
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Blisters & Milk
How you compose me, drunk. I am the last poem of vodka & you dance slowly to yourself. Like a girl who’d steal a motor- cycle, you undress. Blisters & rouge. How as I kiss you a feather of blood … Continue reading
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Another Beat Generation Poet Passes On…
Lenore Kandel, shining light of the San Francisco poetry scene, author of the notorious, The Love Book has died aged 77. The Love Book, a small pamphlett made up of four poems, was seized by police in 1966 as hard-core pornography … Continue reading
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The New Folk pt III
Right now, the Spring sky is as wide open as the weekend. And as always, I’m colouring my Saturday morning with a burst of that new folk sound. Hope it paints your sky as big as you like… Ten Paces Away – … Continue reading
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