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Adam Ford: poet, novelist, zinemaker, comic artist, show-off
2011 australian poetry slam highest scoring local poet (castlemaine heat)
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Posted in man bites dog, Not Quite the Man for the Job
Posted in man bites dog, Not Quite the Man for the Job
Canonical: The Rig Veda
So back in ought-eleven I started on this little self-improvement project whereby I would read the English language poetical canon in order from start to finish. Here we are in ought-thirteen and I’m exactly one and a half books into…
Why Do You Write Poetry? – joanne burns
Hot off the blog is ANOTHER reply to my curly question about why poets poetecise, this time a very thoughtful and honest reply about struggling to find new things to say, by one of my longtime favourite poets, joanne burns,…
Scientific Shame x4.
Recently I found myself enjoying Words for Empty and Words for Full by the inestimable Bob Hicok and came across “BRCA1″ (which you can read in this .pdf extract – it’s about four poems in), a poem that makes reference…
Why Do You Write Poetry? – alicia sometimes
alicia sometimes is the latest bunny to jump into the headlights of the tricky question that I habitually put to poets and yet never deign to answer myself. Her answer went up on The Blue Corner a while back. Here…
Review: Song & Error
So I’ve started reviewing poetry for Bookslut. Which is a bit squee. It’s been interesting flipping through the lists of new poetry books coming out of the US to see how their stuff compares to contemporary Aussie poetry – not…
Tagged with: Averil Curdy, Bookslut, poetry reviews, reviews, Song & Error
Posted in Me and my opinions, people who are nice enough to publish me, poetry, reviews
Posted in Me and my opinions, people who are nice enough to publish me, poetry, reviews
Aramis Fox Update – March 2013
One of my resolutions for 2013 was to get kickin’ with a bit more friction on my twitter novel, Aramis Fox, which will turn four years old (!) come June. Posting frequency had downturned a little bit in 2012 because…
Tagged with: aramis fox, superheroes, telekinetic sex, twitter, twitter fiction
Posted in Aramis Fox, the twitter novel thing, the writing process
Posted in Aramis Fox, the twitter novel thing, the writing process
Why Do You Write Poetry? – Paul K. Tunis
My second instalment of WDYWP?, featuring the illustrative genius of US comicpoet Paul Tunis, author of the glorious Blind to Blue, is now available for your reading pleasure over at The Blue Corner. He makes a Rube Goldberg reference. This…
Australian Women Writers Challenge 2012 – Completed
Belatedly, I am happy to declare that I successfully completed the challenge that I set myself last year as part of the Australian Women Writers Challenge, to wit: to read at least 10 books written by Australian women and to…
Rejected: Nyan Cats, Football, Clocks, Moments, The Number 2 & Beeps.
Four more of my poetries were rejunkted by the folks at Overland, this time “If We Detached the Hands of the Town Hall Clock From Its Internal Mechanism and Let Gravity Have Its Way”, “…and for a moment”, “After the…
Tagged with: Island, islet, nyan cat, overland, poetry, rejection, Slate, Varuna the Writers House
Posted in One History of the VFL, poetry, rejected, the writing process
Posted in One History of the VFL, poetry, rejected, the writing process
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Adam Ford is the author of the poetry books The Third Fruit is a Bird, Not Quite the Man for the Job and From My Head, the novel Man Bites Dog and the short story collection Heroes and Civilians.
He is the genius behind the cult-hit website Monkey Punch Dinosaur and the twitter novel Aramis Fox.
He also makes zines and comics. This is his website.
His email is ADAMFORD-escargot-LABYRINTH-full-stop-NET-full-stop-AU
This website was made on the traditional lands of the Jaara Jaara and the Wurundjeri peoples.
