The ozpo cyberweb has spent the last three weeks on tenterhooks as it anticipated the outcome of the blog war declared between poets Nathan Curnow and Derek Motion. The stakes were high – the loser had to quit their blog…
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2011 australian poetry slam highest scoring local poet (castlemaine heat)
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But boastfulness is a sin, surely?
Dude, they totally made an action figure out of the game they made out of Dante’s Inferno! Action Figure Insider broke the news earlier this week: Boasting 30 points of articulation, Dante is truly one of a kind. He carries…
Two blogs enter. One blog leaves.
In case you’ve been blogging under a rock for the last – oh – week or so, it behooves me to direct your attention to the current skirmish taking place in the blogosphere wherein poets Derek Motion and Nathan Curnow…
The hundredth monkeypunch.
posted with vodpod Back in June 2006 I started a dumb little one-joke blog called Monkey Punch Dinosaur. I had been inspired by having seen Peter Jackson’s 2005 remake of King Kong on a flight back from Thailand a month…
Tagged with: dinosaurs, matt howarth, monkey punch dinosaur, monkeys, punching
Posted in crappin' on about the inconsequential, new ways to procrastinate
Posted in crappin' on about the inconsequential, new ways to procrastinate
Vigilante Virgin updates
A few other people have weighed in on Marieke Hardy’s m-novel thingo, revealing even more shortcomings of the particular model of publication chosen by those involved. I’ve already pointed out (as have others) that it’s more of an online thing…
Tagged with: duncan feldman, gullybogan, hackpacker, marieke hardy, vigilante virgin
Posted in crappin' on about the inconsequential
Posted in crappin' on about the inconsequential
The poetry voice revisited
Have a listen to this: posted with vodpod And then have a listen to this: posted with vodpod Is it just me, or is there a bit of overlap there in terms of speech patterns? I know Ajay Rochester from…
Tagged with: ajay rochester, rita dove, sandra sully, the poetry voice
Posted in crappin' on about the inconsequential
Posted in crappin' on about the inconsequential
Interview: In which I talk about stuff.
Angela Meyer did an interview with yours truly a while ago. And now it’s up on her website.
Blogs and journals and the poetry voice
I recently discovered Linebreak, which is an online poetry journal that publishes one new poem a week. It’s a nice minimalist format that works well with the whole blog concept – in some ways I prefer the idea of a…
An awkward silence
So I had this poetry book published late last year and I thought I might send it to a few people whose poetry I’ve enjoyed over the years. Kind of a way to say hi and thanks – a little…
Age Book of the Year winners
Everybody and their literary dog has already covered the winners of the 2009 Age Book of the Year awards, but I just wanted to say congrats to Peter Porter, Guy Rundle and Steven Amsterdam for their victories in the poetry,…
Tagged with: age book of the year, guy rundle, peter porter, sleepers publishing, stephen amsterdam
Posted in crappin' on about the inconsequential
Posted in crappin' on about the inconsequential
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Man Bites Dog, Adam's novel about posties, poets, dobermans & Angela Lansbury is only $5!
Not Quite the Man for the Job, Adam's award-winning poetry collection, is also only $5!
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.
