Dave Drayton



Alligator weed (Alternanthera philoxeroides)

Presenting a white paper flower On your birthday I was wearing The worst possible behaviour Limbs all hollowed out. On your birthday I was wearing Rivers I’d found somewhere I shouldn’t be. Limbs all hollowed out In plants lining Georges …

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Centocartography, Harwood: jaywalking

Slice through the inverse mappings of the plane There are streets I can’t cross for the ghosts And unsuspecting doves Not sure that anything’s amiss That morning when I came (Mappings of the Plane; Herongate; A Feline Requiem; The Flight …

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Centocarography, San Francisco: dirty dancing

Bob Kaufman, ‘Walking Parker Home’; Lawrence Ferlinghetti, ‘Retired Ballerinas, Central Park West’; Kenneth Rexroth, ‘Education’; Jack Kerouac, ‘Bowery Blues’; Ambrose Bierce ‘Diagnosis’

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Andrew Bonar Law

1916 – 1922 Andrew Bonar Law: Bonar was a skilled amateur chess player and competed with international chess masters. This poem takes the form of a chessboard and explores Bonar Law’s negotiations with the United States over Britain’s war loans, …

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Cook 2614

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Michelago 2620

Portraits-robots after Michèle Métail NSW BOX HEAD CROWDY HEAD BROOMS HEAD WOODY HEAD DIAMOND HEAD JOLLY NOSE HAT HEAD CRESCENT HEAD BROKEN HEAD GRASSY HEAD GATESHEAD NORTH ARM UPPER MAIN ARM MAIN ARM MIDDLE ARM SOUTH ARM SOUTH ARM LONGARM …

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Michael Aiken Reviews Dave Drayton

Dave Drayton’s Haiturograms is a brief but confounding volume, available as a free PDF download and print-to-order book from Sydney-based SOd press. Like Drayton’s other work, HaiturogramS is driven by formal constraint and innovation within that constraint.

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Dave Drayton Reviews Zoe Dzunko and Sam Wagan Watson

Zoe Dzunko’s beautifully designed Selfless, published by TAR Chapbook Series, is similarly immersed in appearances and reflections – both mirror images and the act of rumination – of her many selves.

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Dave Drayton Reviews Carmine Frascarelli and Mark A Peart

In the nonfiction poetry issue of Axon that she co-edited with Ali Alizadeh, Jessica L Wilkinson highlights the impact that Jordie Albiston’s The Hanging of Jean Lee had on her as an undergraduate in 2001. Albiston’s collection is a poetic biography of Lee, the last woman to be executed in Australia. Wilkinson would later be influenced by Susan Howe – whose practice both informed and was a focus of Wilkinson’s doctoral study – to found Rabbit: a Journal of Non-fiction Poetry in 2011; however, a line can be traced from the early impact of Albiston’s book, to the journal, and on to the fledgling Rabbit Poets Series, which began with Albiston’s XIII Poems in 2013.

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Geodesic Suite (Excerpts: XX)

past planet PAST hash kibitz hurtle zone PLANET advice gift HASHURTLEDDO KIBITZONEARTHS eddo earths ADVICEYESAVINE eyes tsking savine gods GIFTSKINGODS garish sins AGOGARISHOLD BABIESINSTORKS agog babies SNAKESPITOUTER hold storks snakes wake WAKEMOTERISE touter rise BEGINS LIFE spit emoter begins life …

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