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
Slammin
Attention conservation notice: I wanted to win something and got grumpy when I didn’t, but I’m feeling better now. Plus some thoughts on the nature of poetry slams. Keywords: slam poetry, psychobabble, rationalisation, competitive arts. Word length: 2,252 words. So…
Why do you write poetry? – Michael Farrell
I asked a bunch of poets the above questions. I’ll put their answers on this blog until I run out or get distracted… Michael Farrell says: “klare [lanson - see Klare's answer here - ed.] mentioned poetry writes me &…
Tagged with: frank o'hara, german expressionism, gertrude stein, james joyce, michael farrell, poetry, pop music
Posted in why do you write poetry?
Posted in why do you write poetry?
Poetry Mixtape for October 2011
…being the ninth in an occasional series of poems what I read on the interwebs and quite liked… The Bat – Marie Gauthier
 turned up like an artifact of our early days, the time one zipped into your kitchenless hovel…
Tagged with: ben pobjie, chloe wilson, cristin o'keefe aptowicz, marie gauthier, patricia lockhart, poetry, poetry mixtape
Posted in poetry, poetry mixtape
Posted in poetry, poetry mixtape
Paradise
Malakh lands himself in trouble. Abdiel acts indifferently during a movie date with Gabriel. Metatron defends Sachiel’s decision to breastfeed in public. Uriel promises to watch Arariel in the sprint race. Urania is desperate to fall pregnant. Sachiel discovers that…
…and for a moment
we are timeless infinite eternal magnificent until we drift back to earth together sated angels in mutual embrace
Canonical Part 1: The Epic of Gilgamesh
Self-education is a slow, erratic process, especially for those of us with fairly short attention spans. It’s only now with forty bearing down on me at a rate of one day per day that I have decided to address the…
Tagged with: canon, classical education, Enkidu, gilgamesh, Humbaba, Ishtar, poetry, Stephen Mitchell
Posted in canonical, i would like to recommend these people's writing
Posted in canonical, i would like to recommend these people's writing
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
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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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