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‘Hunger repletion musick fire’: Dransfield, Post-punk and the Countrylink Express
Many of you will be clued-in on the recent commentary re. Gray and Lehmann’s Australian Poetry Since 1788 anthology, published toward the end of last year. One of the criticisms of the book has been the choice of poets included, …
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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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.
