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…
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Review: Thirty Australian Poets
I completely forgot about this one, but aaaaaaaaaages back I had my review of Thirty Australian Poets, a new University of Queensland Press anthology of Australian poets who were born after 1968 and who have had one collection published, published on…
Poetry Mixtape for June 2012
Being the latest in an erratically occasional feature whereupon I share some poetry what I found and liked on the interwebs… Lisa Bellear – Come Dancin’ I want to dance with something tangible, other than my shadow Let’s you and…
Bessie Smith and the Pretty Kitties
(Michael Ondaatje vs. alicia sometimes) At first she refused to sing. But here she was. A long brown dress, with fringes. Fred Longshaw at the piano. I slip by the mike, throw trashed words into laps. my bass is chalk.…
Poetry Mixtape for December 2010
Being the 6th in a list of poems I founded on the internets and which I liked the look of… Bob Hicok – An Old Story It’s hard being in love with fireflies. I have to do all the pots…
Great Australian speeches?
We were watching that Stephen Fry show about driving a London cab around the US and there was a bit where he visited Gettysburg cemetery and chatted to an Abraham Lincoln impersonator and it occurred to me that I’d never…
Tagged with: abraham lincoln, bud tingwell, jack thompson, johnny cash, judy davis, kevin rudd, ned kelly, paul keating, shane moloney, speeches, tex perkins
Posted in crappin' on about the inconsequential, i would like to recommend these people's writing, lines I wish I'd written, new ways to procrastinate
Posted in crappin' on about the inconsequential, i would like to recommend these people's writing, lines I wish I'd written, new ways to procrastinate
Poetry Mixtape for January 2010
Being a list of some poems what I found online that I quite like, in no particular order: The Twelve Days of Christmas by Carol Ann Duffy Ring three was black gold, O for oil – a serpent swallowing its…
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…
CJ Dennis: The Glugs of Gosh
I picked up a cheap copy of C.J. Dennis’s The Glugs of Gosh while we were on holidays a couple of weeks ago. Last year I heard a great episode of Radio National’s Book Show that explored this poem in…
Tagged with: cj dennis, poetry, the glugs of gosh
Posted in i would like to recommend these people's writing, lines I wish I'd written
Posted in i would like to recommend these people's writing, lines I wish I'd written
There’s only one everything.
more about “There’s only one everything.“, posted with vodpod John Linnell of They Might Be Giants has a great skill for writing hooky pop songs whose lyrics incorporate intellectual inquiry. He’s written songs that present potted – but accurate –…
Tagged with: John Linnell, one everything, philosophy, they might be giants, video
Posted in i would like to recommend these people's writing, lines I wish I'd written
Posted in i would like to recommend these people's writing, lines I wish I'd written
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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.
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