Monthly Archives: April 2010
A few days with Salt on the Tongue pt. 1
Well I am finally back in home waters and my head is leaking poetry, thanks to an incredible weekend in Goolwa + Tuesday night’s Riverbend Books reading & last night’s Back Room event at Confit Bistro. So my thoughts on … Continue reading
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Forensics
There is a dead blue tongue on the front step, glistening lifeless. At first we think the cat, our grey sentinel and indeed she will have lay it here, but this creature has been flattened by some disaster. Deduction travels … Continue reading
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A Poetic Aside…
Well its bag packing time tonight, as I prepare for the weekend in Goolwa, but I am procrastinating… Last night I saw The Scrapes at The Troubadour and my head is still buzzing with their ‘doom sexy’ guitar and violin … Continue reading
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Another Lost Shark live at Salt on the Tongue
This Lost Shark is heading south to Goolwa this weekend for the Salt on the Tongue Poetry Festival. And the line-up looks amazing… Am really looking forward to hearing Jordie Albiston (one of my favourite Australian Poets… if you have … Continue reading
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Riverbend Poetry Series, April 27 – featuring Kent MacCarter
The second Riverbend Poetry Series event for the year is just days away and it is promising to be a very special night. So if you are in the area make sure you are at Riverbend Books to enjoy a night of … Continue reading
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Roadside Grave
Just past the slaughterhouse a cross marks the focus of one short life. They say this one is a boy’s grave. Mushrooms circle it, knuckling up out of the blonde, dead grass. The wind has a smell to it here, … Continue reading
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The New Folk XI – Sounds Like Local
Australia has always produced some of the world’s most original music… Johnny O’Keefe, The Easybeats, The Saints, The Go-Betweens, The Triffids, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Dirty Three, The Church… the list goes on. So I thought I would … Continue reading
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Amanda Joy & Sheish Money Live at SpeedPoets
The inimitable Paul Squires has captured some exquisite footage of Amanda Joy backed by the SpeedPoets riff-creator, Sheish Money last Sunday, April 11. Just getting to watch this again made my stomach float… the words twisting through the music (and … Continue reading
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Riverbend Poetry Series, April 27 – the launch of Small Packages 11
April 27 is fast closing in and I for one am looking forward to it, as that si the date issue 11 of QLD’s finest literary mag Small Packages hits the shelves of Riverbend Books as part of the second event … Continue reading
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