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…
Adam Ford: poet, novelist, zinemaker, comic artist, show-off
2011 australian poetry slam highest scoring local poet (castlemaine heat)
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Rejected: The 2011 backlog
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
Editing The Demon
There’s this character in the comics called The Demon, a sort of horror-themed superhero. He was invented in the ’70s as a kind of witchity version of The Hulk – by day he’s occult specialist Jason Blood, but whenever he…
Making a poem better one punctuation mark at a time
I mentioned in an earlier post that I had a poem published in FourW 21 late last year, a kind of self-aggrandising rap-style litany poem thing. It was a pleasure to be published by such a delightful bunch of Waggans,…
Tagged with: David Gilbey, editing, fourW, poetry
Posted in people who are nice enough to publish me, the writing process
Posted in people who are nice enough to publish me, the writing process
Published: Bees & raps
Two more small items to mention and then my backlog of braggadocio will be discharged: I’ve got a poem in the latest page seventeen – “She Likes Bees” as a matter of fact, which I had previously lamented the rejection…
Tagged with: four w, page seventeen, poetry, sugar hill, sugarhill
Posted in people who are nice enough to publish me
Posted in people who are nice enough to publish me
My words, their voices: Kevin the Fucked Up Goldfish
Kevin the Stuffed-Up Goldfish, posted with vodpod I recently got an email heads-up from Eco-Girl of the Super Poets that one of my poems was going to feature in the Out Loud schools’ poetry slam as part of the Melbourne…
Tagged with: kevin the fucked up goldfish, melbourne writers festival, out loud, poetry, poetry reading, poetry slam, super poets, video
Posted in gigs, Not Quite the Man for the Job, poems
Posted in gigs, Not Quite the Man for the Job, poems
Poetry mixtape for September 2010
Being the fifth in a series of lists of poems what I found on the webinator and liked muchly enough to share with those who would listen: Separation – Ron Hardy Steam from a bowl of oatmeal rises, dimming the…
Tagged with: andy jackson, Hannah Stephenson, jeanann verlee, poetry, poetry mixtape, ron hardy, Taras Shevchenko
Posted in i would like to recommend these people's writing, poetry mixtape
Posted in i would like to recommend these people's writing, poetry mixtape
Rejected: poetry manuscript
Got an email from the guys at Whitmore Press a couple of days ago re: the manuscript I’d submitted to the Whitmore Press/Poetry Idol Prize. It was a big negatory, but there were some thoughtful details in the email itself:…
Tagged with: poetry, poetry idol, rejection letters, whitmore press
Posted in poems, rejected, the writing process
Posted in poems, rejected, the writing process
Gig: Poetry & science
Couple of weeks ago I had dinner with a bunch of poets and rocket scientists, which was a brainstorming session for the upcoming Poetry and Science reading that the Australian Poetry Centre are running as part of their National Science…
Why do you write poetry? – Ashley Capes
I asked a bunch of poets the above question. I’ll post their answers here until I run out or ask more poets… Ashley Capes says: The answer that usually springs to mind, and it sounds a little flippant, is that…
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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.
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.
