Here’s a sneak preview of the Dear Rose cover and an excerpt from the title poem… Details of the launch are also included so hope to see all you Brisbane folk there on Sunday night, and for all those beyond, details of how to order online will soon be posted to the Small Change Press [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 30, 2009
Cannot Buy My Soul
I was thrilled when I heard earlier in the year that the Cannot Buy My Soul tribute to Kev Carmody was coming to QLD as part of QMF. The concert features performances from a diverse range of Australian singer/songwriter/musicians, including Paul Kelly, The Herd, Tex Perkins, The Drones, Steve Kilbey, Claire Bowditch, Archie Roach and many others. Since [...]
June 29, 2009
Oodgeroo – bloodline to country
Sam Watson’s new play Oodgeroo – bloodline to country opens today. The play centres around the 1974 hijacking of an aircraft in Dubai by Palestinian terrorists. One of the passengers on that plane was Kath Walker (later to be Oodgeroo Noonuccal). The other central issue is the differing pathways to peace; for Oodgeroo it was [...]
June 28, 2009
Get Your Fix
Another Sunday, and after the grey, weeping sky that prevailed last weekend, it is so good to feel the last of today’s winter sun streaming through my window.
And while I am getting my fix, you should get yours.
Check out this great short film based on the poem A Fix by Herbert Huncke. For many Huncke is better [...]
June 27, 2009
The Suffering Song
Well tonight I finished watching Deadwood. If you have not seen it, I totally recommend you do so. And don’t be put off by the relentless cursing, violence and moral chaos… there is so much more going on. I mean, this is hands down the most linguistically brilliant television dialogue I have encountered.
Just have a look [...]
June 27, 2009
Gloves Off! Poetry vs Literature
In my Saturday morning travels, I came across this great post by Todd Swift.
It took me back to the recent post, Is Poetry Failing?, as again the capitalist concept of success is at the heart of the matter.
“There is a publishing industry… It is a commercial enterprise, endorsed by government bodies, and cultural organisations and [...]
June 26, 2009
One Book Many Brisbanes
This Lost Shark has had a massive poetry week. A great night of live poetry at Riverbend Books on Tuesday night, where I also got my first glimpse of the three new Small Change Press titles for 2009 (very exciting, but more about those in another post), followed by the launch of the B150 edition [...]
June 25, 2009
frost on hinges – a winter kasen renga
by Ashley Capes & Graham Nunn
frost on hinges
by the letterbox
a thin shadow
every pine needle
quivering
the powerline
stretches
raven’s claws
your black skirt
drying in the wind
moonlight
on the verandah
first wood-smoke
only the fire
warms his old hands
two moths
circle the lamp – fighting
or fucking or both
the click of a light switch
swallowed by black
in bed
my coffee and I
unstirred
flipping through vinyl
ancora tu
old cat
watching the kite
chase [...]
June 24, 2009
#*%^ the football… watch this – Dylan and The Band at Isle of Wight
Recently I got my hands on the audio of Dylan and The Band at Isle of Wight in 1969; Dylan’s first step back into the live arena after ‘the accident’. It is a momentous occasion… the first time any of the songs from the underrated classic album of 1967, John Wesley Harding were aired live.
Here’s [...]
June 24, 2009
Black Stump Blues pt. II – Further
In just over a week I am heading out west to Blackall again with Hinemoana Baker (2009 Arts QLD Poet-in-Residence)… I was fortunate enough to have a two week residency out there last year and ever since leaving I have had the ache to return. The country really gets under your skin…
Here’s part II of [...]
