In late October Ivy Alvarez put the call out to poets to send her one poem a week on a postcard throughout November, in return for which she would do the same. I was interested in the idea, not only…
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Postcards from Ivy – Part 1
Tagged with: Ivy Alvarez, poetry, posctards
Posted in i would like to recommend these people's writing, new poems, poems, poetry, the writing process
Posted in i would like to recommend these people's writing, new poems, poems, poetry, the writing process
Rejected: beeps, binaries & leftovers
Around this time last year I was much more knee-deep in excitings re: writing and people saying “yes we like this enough to commit pixels or ink and also our own endeavours to it”, but lately it’s been a big…
Tagged with: cordite, electronica, new wave, overland, pizza, submissions, the buggles, the diagram, windowcleaners, Xeno's paradox
Posted in poems, poetry, rejected, the writing process
Posted in poems, poetry, rejected, the writing process
Poetry workshop: Cutups in Sunshine
Last week I ran a short poetry workshop at Sunshine Library as part of the lead-in to the Brimbank Literary Festival. As part of the workshop I got the participants to make some randomised poetry using one of two news…
Tagged with: cats, cutup, housing affordability, poetry workshops, random, sunshine
Posted in poems, the writing process
Posted in poems, the writing process
Are we there yet?
are you ready for this? forget I asked there’s no way you could be ready for what has to follow the necessity of the next is not in dispute I use my vocabulary to enthuse, not confuse all the English…
Tagged with: doppler shift, gravitino, hypercube, poems, poetry, poets wreck lives
Posted in poems, Published work
Posted in poems, Published work
Published – Mea Culpa
I have a word-based contribution on cordite at the mo, part of the oz-ko (envoy) issue, which is the prelude to the forthcoming oz-ko issue that will feature Korean poets translated into English and Australian poets translated into Hangul, which,…
Tagged with: bibimbap, cordite, elizabeth stewart, fleur beaupert, geoff page, joe dolce, kimchi, korea, literary journals, patrick jones, poetry, poetry journals
Posted in i would like to recommend these people's writing, new poems, people who are nice enough to publish me, poems, Published work, reflected glory, writing
Posted in i would like to recommend these people's writing, new poems, people who are nice enough to publish me, poems, Published work, reflected glory, writing
Rejected: The 2011 backlog
I’ve been remiss in documenting my submissions of late, but this morning I was tinkering with the spreadsheet I use to keep track of what I’ve sent out and what’s been sent back, and I noticed that 2011 has been…
Tagged with: belinda hilton, cordite, elimae, linebreak, poetry, popshot, rejected, two weeks anthology
Posted in poems, rejected, the writing process
Posted in poems, rejected, the writing process
Leftover Countdown
On Sunday night he checks the fridge: last night’s noodles for lunch on Monday, leftover tikka masala on Tuesday, the last piece of spinach pie on Wednesday, pumpkin soup Thursday, sandwich on Friday. Even though it’s payday on Thursday he’ll…
Tagged with: leftovers, lunch, poems, pumpkin soup, spinach pie, tikka masala
Posted in new poems, poems
Posted in new poems, poems
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…
My words, their voices: I Must Destroy the Space-Whale
If you ever wanted to know what my poetry sounds like when it’s read out loud by an English woman with a very BBC-voiceoveresque voice-type-voice – like I always have – then boy are you (and I, I guess) in…
Tagged with: nic sebastian, poems, poetry reading, whale sound
Posted in Not Quite the Man for the Job, people who are nice enough to publish me, poems
Posted in Not Quite the Man for the Job, people who are nice enough to publish me, poems
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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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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.
