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derek motion
waves
punch & paw out a slippery motif post tourist hotel shots smack it down all fourths-&-fifthsy while the event gloss still burns white chase the midi sync & loop up in a drizzled morning snap to the rotodrum drone & …
inadequate stovetop
i lap up macadamia fuzz in a middle aged stroll of the ‘nature’. espying a roof rack means change the world instead, or try on sunglasses ingested by a seven-eleven, or read emily bitto’s poem & feign a partner’s formal …
Derek Motion: TINA Reflections
Literary festivals happen again and again in Australia but you'll probably miss most of them. Even if you do reside in a major coastal city, then still, you'll miss things. I know. I used to not care so much, but now I read blogs and keep tabs on the activities of a lot of Australian writers; so I am privy to all the festival happenings, all the goss, and I am naturally left feeling left out. Why can't I go to these cool things if so many other people can?
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design brief.pdf
the hard drive a still hum, a natural pilot light
Derek Motion: fate of the species
poets x, y, & z at different times. we talk of stray things – x mentions Hawkesbury Country more than once, as if you can't walk through it, not without feeling an owner's 'presence'. y & i imagine who would …
Cordite’s SATSQ: Derek Motion
Well, you've heard the rumours, and it turns out they're true. Cordite's SATSQ is back with a vengeance! Please consider the responses of our first 'victim' – poet, writer and raconteur, Derek Motion!
Michael Dransfield’s Innocent Eyes
When you think of ways to interrogate innocence, you will sooner or later come to a moral dichotomy. It can be unpackaged as either good or bad. It can oppose guilt, and by implication your innocence allows that you have …
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Derek Motion: life in the miniature steam-train village
some of us do stay here i have a room under the miniature tunnel the door is a drain-cover a secret i open only when the tourists have gone some of the overalled men have wives & they are civil in …
Derek Motion: feelings
brianna pushed steve no-one could've expected that the taxi-rank still flourishing sometime near the early hours removed him from place like superfluous words edited falling into victoria park he yells an effort lost to engines & road & sirens once …
Derek Motion: one
drinking seven beers standing up but then it's yesterday's kid's party (light plays over a cake it's an eight it's shaped like a race-track (the standing the thing to remember & also there are people looking like characters from macbeth …
Derek Motion: barcode 9 311532 071002
i solved it late one afternoon. all the numbers shifted from stereogram revealing coded expression: rightwing political discontent. damn freedom of information collectors like daleks emerged with faux-stealth gutting any life from this phenomena. surprise. all the best (really seditious) numbers then went on tour rocking …
Baz Malley: where is silicon valley?
BAZ MALLEY is emerging from the concrete of his illicit, sub-urban inscription
& is no longer dust, but cypher & electron. He acknowledges the scope of language & is in all this a singularity. Baz was here.
