So every now and then I get organised enough to send some of my poetry and stories out to the people who run online journals, and every now and then some of them are generous enough to say “well yes Adam we would like to publish that in our web magazine”. Which is very gratifying. It means that I can assemble lists of links like this to show to all my friends.
I also post the occasional poem to the blog, which you can find within either the new poems category, the published work category or the From the vaults category.
Many of the poems here are also in The Third Fruit is a Bird, which you can purchase for yourself in the shop.
The Modified B Plan (via Linebreak)
“The bastards fly. People are dead. We’re on the modified B plan.”
The Battle of Clarendon St (via YouTube)
“It was Cazaly who united them, Cazaly with his coal-black hair and eyes of steel…”
A short film based on a prose poem fictional history about the 19th-century revolution in South Melbourne, with narration by Charles “Bud” Tingwell and music by Grant Balfour.
Escalation (Use Only as Directed) (via qarrtsiluni)
“We appreciate that a poster / with instructions for the use / of escalators may seem patronising…”
Various found diagrams (via Diagram)
Keishin-Kei, Risshin-Kei | The Pedipulator | Extraction of “Prominence” Feature | Public Space | Snap Figure Together As Shown | Exodus: The Making of a Miracle
The Thing (via Snorkel)
““Have you got the thing?” she asks, / turning around to face me. / My silence demands information. / She repeats herself instead.”
Coastlines
“She shuffles up closer and pretends like she’s interested in what I’m doing, even suggests a couple of amino bonds that I have to admit fit the design pretty well.”
First Incision (via cordite)
“The scalpels rattle in the wooden box / as you gently set it beside the slab. / The body lies with forelegs drooping, / hooves resting just above its chest.”
Mine (via Overland Express – archived at National Library of Australia’s Pandora archive)
“Your orbit entwines Io and Ganymede / and I don’t care if it’s geometrically impossible; / I can still see you.”
Dancing to Architecture
“Start. / A 4/4 beat.”
Evil Robot Monkey with Flaming Sword (via slope)
“What dread purpose do you fulfill? / Oh that I could call down the Warrior / Angels and pit them against your / Malevolent Program…”
You Should Have Killed the Monkey First (via slope – scroll down)
“Because of course it was the / monkey that snuck between / the bars on the window and / pressed the plainly-labelled / off switch on the death-trap…”
All the Other ‘Cool’ Electrons (via hutt)
“… do you suppose that the electrons in the outer / shells of higher elements like Germanium and / Magnesium get jealous of the electrons closer / to the nucleus?”
untitled (via hutt)
“She is wet. She pushes her hips upwards, then looks at me. I don’t love you, she says, tears in her eyes.”
souper vighagra (via elimae)
“go|two|days|nonstop|”
