My new book blue grass is published by Salt Publishing.
I recently guest edited a special "Indigenous Australia" issue of Australia's leading literary magazine, Meanjin.
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poe~eco~sys, n —
1. the cosmic imagination
in poesy flowers organic language assemblages;
2. assemblages in language flowers the cosmic organic poesy imagination;
3. language poesy flowers imagination assemblages in the cosmic organic.
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Previous Posts
- yonder
- "Wherever he names the time (la bonne heure) in La...
- New Finch Discovered (Alive)</>
- The Rebirth of the Author
- Techno-barbarism
- The Cloud Appreciation Society
- Vale Steve Irwin
- Queensland Poetry Festival (from Melbourne)
- Map of Lostness
- Melbourne Launch and Reading August 22
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Reading...
- Édouard Glissant Poetics of Relation (trans. Betsy Wing) (1997)
- Pam Brown My Lightweight Intentions (1998, 2006) and Peel Me A Zibibbo (2006)
- Peter Gizzi Some Values of Landscape and Weather (2003)
- foxy digitalis
Listening to...
- Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music (1952)
- The North Sea
- Gillian Welch Hell Among The Yearlings (1998)
- Lau Nau kuutarha (2005)
- Kuusumun Profeetta
- Six Organs of Admittance School of the Flower (2005)
- Devendra Banhart Rejoicing In The Hands (2004)
- Puzzling Music Archive — especially THFTFFTHF and WS Burns (so far)
- Laura Viers Carbon Glaciers (2004)
- Smog A River Ain't Too Much To Love (2005)
- Mono You Are There (2006)
- Group Terakfen Ntnariwen Amassakoul (2004)
- Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin 1 (1969)
- Jandek
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Freak Folks From Finland:
"Music and poetry rarely cross paths with war. Soldiering and composing lyrics are two activities which don't coexist very happily. The songs of Tinariwen rise up and ambush you from behind a sand dune whose crest defines the boundary between the sphere of the artist and that of the warrior. The most arresting of the many images which have forged the legend of the group is that of Kheddou Ag Hossad setting off to attack the Malian army post of Menaka near the frontier with Niger, Kalashnikov in hand and an electric guitar strapped to his back. This skirmish took place on June 30th 1990. It was the event that launched the second Touareg rebellion, which lasted three years and claimed thousands of victims. Tinariwen assumed a double edged role during the conflict; as guerrillas involved in the liberation struggle of the Adrar des Iforas region in the north of Mali and as poet musicians busy forging their very own style during the many after-combat fireside gatherings...."