Monthly Archives: September 2011
Next stop Tasmania…
It’s been another massive year for this Lost Shark, with trips to Melbourne, Blackall, Murgon & Hervey Bay. And in just over a week, Sheish and I will be flying south for a guest spot at the 2011 Tasmanian Poetry Festival. The program … Continue reading
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Points of Arrival
young girls on Granville St with new hips and nipples tight under applique of t-shirt loose change slipped into pockets, the edge of coins showing clean through * heron opens bay-spanning wings, trails thin legs, neck held in s-shape, … Continue reading
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Help Make A Difference: Raising funds for a High School Poetry Project
I have spoken at length on many occasions about the state of poetry in schools (most notably this article: The Death of Poetry in Australian Classrooms), so each year, I make it my business to ensure I offer workshops to teachers … Continue reading
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The Back Room’s All Star Menu: featuring Pascalle Burton
Tomorrow night is your last chance to dine out on the fine food and live arts served up by, The Back Room at Confit Bistro. One of the highlights of the all-star menu is avant-garde performance poet musician-lady, Pascalle Burton. Pascalle … Continue reading
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In Spring, we are lively as fish
brimming with waves I come into sunlight and there — a bubble — — a sensuous shell — — the skitter of gulls across the littoral — diving in, my heart was only the size of a fist uncurled, it holds … Continue reading
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Butterflies & Wet Ink
The National Library of Australia has been releasing its very successful series of ‘Little Books’ for the better part of the last decade now and there are a couple of new editions in the pipeline, including The Little Book of … Continue reading
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The Back Room’s All-Star Menu: featuring B. R. Dionysius
Next Wednesday, September 28, The Back Room at Confit Bistro (4/9 Doggett St, Fortitude Valley) serves up its final helping of live art for 2011, with an all star menu, visual art by Olivia Shale and Tricia Reust, the vibrant sounds … Continue reading
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Come on a ginko with me
spring breeze at her thighs the towel loosens In late October/early November, as Spring bursts in all its beauty, I will be leading a series of six ginko (haiku walk) around this fine city of ours and its stunning … Continue reading
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Grandma’s House
first of spring memories of grandma’s house overgrown * wrong turn thirty kilometres of silence * ahead the ocean pure of us
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