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Pam Brown

Pam Brown has been active in the Australian poetry scene for decades. Her recent publications are Stasis Shuffle from Hunter Publishers in Brisbane in 2021 and A Love Supreme — a chapbook from Tim Wright's now orries press in Melbourne in 2022.

Café Filmo

the Italians go to Starbucks – beam me up biscotti. Pasolini, the charmer, orders decaf. last century Federico Fellini made films as if everyone loved films that was the gift, the key. Pier Paolo filmed like someone who'd never been …

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Haven

that's nature for you — worried by a whip-bird, bitten and blotched by all the different bugs and nanobac that we find inside the hut, the weekender, the cabin in the haven. the shady scenic-route lookout marks the place that …

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Anyworld

Pam Brown's text thing was reviewed here by Bev Braune.

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Patti Smith Was Right

these cold, known objects are not very likeable – aluminium frames & curved glass with optical tricks – but I am 'at ease' at this show, there are some nice little-grin ideas – like television screening outside on the suburban …

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At the Ian Burn Show

MCA 1997 at the Ian Burn show there’s a badly recorded b&w video of Ian Burn & colleagues performing anti-authoritarian art spiels— drumkit, keyboards, guitar, voice— it’s the ‘Art & Language’ days, the mid-seventies—recorded most likely, on a Sony portapak …

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In Ultimo in ‘98

I maximise my traipsing round the district— at the end of Bay Street Bert Flugelman’s silver shish-kebab lies abandoned in the Sydney City Council yard behind the garbage trucks garage (“Living City” say the t-shirts)

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In Surry Hills

faintly scribbled in sky-blue pencil on the front wall of my house in Surry Hills in 1971— “is this the hostel where the lazy & fun-loving start up the mountain” I don’t think anyone entering the house had hear of …

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A howling in favour of failures …

It’s time to lay my zip-drive on the table – here is where we all washed up – the caffeine failed, the water pipes hammering, pink batts making it difficult to eavesdrop, April Fool’s Day on its way, all the …

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