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with A Sometimes
114: NO THEME 13
with J Toledo & C Tse
113: INVISIBLE WALLS
with A Walker & D Disney
112: TREAT
with T Dearborn
111: BABY
with S Deo & L Ferney
110: POP!
with Z Frost & B Jessen
109: NO THEME 12
with C Maling & N Rhook
108: DEDICATION
with L Patterson & L Garcia-Dolnik
107: LIMINAL
with B Li
106: OPEN
with C Lowe & J Langdon
105: NO THEME 11
with E Grills & E Stewart
104: KIN
with E Shiosaki
103: AMBLE
with E Gomez and S Gory
102: GAME
with R Green and J Maxwell
101: NO THEME 10
with J Kinsella and J Leanne
100: BROWNFACE
with W S Dunn
99: SINGAPORE
with J Ip and A Pang
97 & 98: PROPAGANDA
with M Breeze and S Groth
96: NO THEME IX
with M Gill and J Thayil
95: EARTH
with M Takolander
94: BAYT
with Z Hashem Beck
93: PEACH
with L Van, G Mouratidis, L Toong
92: NO THEME VIII
with C Gaskin
91: MONSTER
with N Curnow
90: AFRICAN DIASPORA
with S Umar
89: DOMESTIC
with N Harkin
88: TRANSQUEER
with S Barnes and Q Eades
87: DIFFICULT
with O Schwartz & H Isemonger
86: NO THEME VII
with L Gorton
85: PHILIPPINES
with Mookie L and S Lua
84: SUBURBIA
with L Brown and N O'Reilly
83: MATHEMATICS
with F Hile
82: LAND
with J Stuart and J Gibian
81: NEW CARIBBEAN
with V Lucien
80: NO THEME VI
with J Beveridge
57.1: EKPHRASTIC
with C Atherton and P Hetherington
57: CONFESSION
with K Glastonbury
56: EXPLODE
with D Disney
55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUS
with M Chakraborty and K MacCarter
55: FUTURE MACHINES
with Bella Li
54: NO THEME V
with F Wright and O Sakr
53.0: THE END
with P Brown
52.0: TOIL
with C Jenkins
51.1: UMAMI
with L Davies and Lifted Brow
51.0: TRANSTASMAN
with B Cassidy
50.0: NO THEME IV
with J Tranter
49.1: A BRITISH / IRISH
with M Hall and S Seita
49.0: OBSOLETE
with T Ryan
48.1: CANADA
with K MacCarter and S Rhodes
48.0: CONSTRAINT
with C Wakeling
47.0: COLLABORATION
with L Armand and H Lambert
46.1: MELBOURNE
with M Farrell
46.0: NO THEME III
with F Plunkett
45.0: SILENCE
with J Owen
44.0: GONDWANALAND
with D Motion
43.1: PUMPKIN
with K MacCarter
43.0: MASQUE
with A Vickery
42.0: NO THEME II
with G Ryan
41.1: RATBAGGERY
with D Hose
41.0: TRANSPACIFIC
with J Rowe and M Nardone
40.1: INDONESIA
with K MacCarter
40.0: INTERLOCUTOR
with L Hart
39.1: GIBBERBIRD
with S Gory
39.0: JACKPOT!
with S Wagan Watson
38.0: SYDNEY
with A Lorange
37.1: NEBRASKA
with S Whalen
37.0: NO THEME!
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36.0: ELECTRONICA
with J Jones
michael farrell
Adam Ford Reviews Michael Farrell
I've been puzzled by Michael Farrell's poetry for a long time. Sometimes I think I get it; but his writing is mercurial, and for every one of his poems that I've understood or enjoyed, there's another that leaves me cold or just confuses me. It's impossible to decide whether Farrell is doing something incredibly formal and intellectual that I'm not smart enough to understand, or whether he's tricking his reader into thinking that there's something deeper taking place when he's in fact only mucking around and playing crazy games with language.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Adam Ford, comics, michael farrell
Candylands
In February 2004 I went on a one-month meet-as-many-poets-as-possible trip to the U.S. A mobile phone would have made everything so much easier. I call my friend S from a public phone at LAX, eventually getting through. I dump my bags at his shared one bedroom flat and we go to a nearby market, where I buy some dice, candles, and the best cookie I've eaten in my life.
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged michael farrell, travel, USA
greenwood values
my feet are birds on whats left of the trees the dream reconciles me living here without goodbye & so you know that somethings wrong an atmosphere a general abnormality where needs of affection transgress boundaries & ghosts arent laid …
Posted in 25: COMMON WEALTH
Tagged michael farrell
Veronica Malley: Bardot
VERONICA MALLEY is a retired schoolteacher. She lives with her companion in an inner suburb of Melbourne. Of the Romantics she prefers Byron; she is writing a long work entitled 'Peas and cantos'.
Posted in 24: CHILDREN OF MALLEY
Tagged michael farrell
Veronica Malley: Build a House
VERONICA MALLEY is a retired schoolteacher. She lives with her companion in an inner suburb of Melbourne. Of the Romantics she prefers Byron; she is writing a long work entitled 'Peas and cantos'.
Posted in 24: CHILDREN OF MALLEY
Tagged michael farrell
Veronica Malley: Cruise
VERONICA MALLEY is a retired schoolteacher. She lives with her companion in an inner suburb of Melbourne. Of the Romantics she prefers Byron; she is writing a long work entitled 'Peas and cantos'.
Posted in 24: CHILDREN OF MALLEY
Tagged michael farrell
love in the accusation
somewhere between ´blood in the wind'1 and ´died to no avail'2 is this (´From The New World') what they call ´smear campaign' or ´once more around the block'? reading, breathing in insects/gas, fifty years getting something right, some image to …
Posted in 23: EDITORIAL INTERVENTION
Tagged michael farrell
Richard Frankland’s Charcoal Club
Part of my homework for singing class was to go to a live gig. I didn't know much about Frankland, I hadn't known he was standing for the Senate until I went to vote. He has a powerful voice and his band of six (including a drummer who doubled as a eucalyptus branch shaker) played songs that veered from country to funky, interspersed with Frankland's state-of-things discourse.
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged indigenous Australia, michael farrell, Richard Frankland
Mickey Agonistes
Michael Farrell is a Melbourne poet whom this editor is quite fond of. Check out his book 'ode/ode'.
Posted in 19: ANTI/HEROES
Tagged michael farrell
Starship Troopers
Michael Farrell's latest collection 'ode ode' is out now through Salt Publishing.
Posted in 17: DRIVER
Tagged michael farrell
Anorexias
Michael Farrell's latest collection 'ode ode' is out now through Salt Publishing.
Posted in 17: DRIVER
Tagged michael farrell
Fatal Interview
Over aggressiveness. Tonight is another one of those nights but then played by a string quartet A lot of the documents have been sent to me reveals his addiction to hard-core pornography and We take a look at Australia via …
Posted in 16: SEARCH
Tagged michael farrell
"ceci n’est pas une googly"
ROCK… Heart Bridge… Cliches… Dictionary… … THESE FOOLISH THINGS (Love Words)… QUARTET… ROCK N'ROLL. 33. … … WACA: An Australian Success Story… Somebody Else: Arthur in Africa 1880-91… for success in manly outdoor sports, such as football and.” One might …
Posted in 16: SEARCH
Tagged michael farrell
dance culture & negativity
Michael Farrell's latest collection is ode,ode (Salt, UK).
Posted in 15: GLITTER
Tagged michael farrell
Justin Lowe Reviews Michael Farrell
I've never been prone to brand loyalty (no sniggers from the comfy chairs, please), but recently, the merest glimpse of the Salt Publishing logo has me reaching for my wallet. I love a challenge, and Michael Farrell's second verse collection ode ode continues that publishing house's burgeoning tradition of pulling the rug from under my snug size 12s.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Justin Lowe, michael farrell
Michael Farrell Reviews John Tranter
At a Carlton party, someone said to me that a number of Australian poets were all right until they started imitating Ashbery: Tranter was the example given. How Ashberian is Tranter? Their mode is similar, the way they range over a topic before resting on a twig or in mid-air, yet Tranter is closer to the ground, less insouciant, more urgent, the phrasing of a private eye who's always on the case, commissioned or not.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged john tranter, michael farrell
Laurie Duggan: Cover Me [borrowed title]
It's in the nature of poetry that sampling, covering, or borrowing, conscious or unconscious happens all the time. We all try to write like people we admire. In the case of satire we may try to write like people we don't like at all. In language there are only so many riffs there for the taking and what makes a poem interesting is the manner in which it performs its little (or big) thefts.
Posted in FEATURES
Tagged copyleft, creative commons, michael farrell, remixes
Michael Farrell Reviews 10,000 Monkeys
If everyone went around saying what they thought, the world would end up a Shakespearean tragedy, with none of the major players left standing. Sometimes, of necessity, there is a vast difference between what one says, and what one thinks. But then again, you just might be the right Rabelaisan dog who enjoys breaking the bone to get to the marrow. Michael Farrell takes a sidelong look at Melodrama's CD 10,000 Monkeys.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Justin Clemens, michael farrell, spoken word
Michael Farrell: Bat & Ball
Michael Farrell's latest collection is ode,ode (Salt).
Posted in 12: TEST MATCH
Tagged michael farrell
Michael Farrell: there thereabouts
Michael Farrell's latest collection is ode,ode (Salt).
Posted in 12: TEST MATCH
Tagged michael farrell
Dorothy Porter’s "PMT" – 2001: 3 mixes
piercing my turning piercing pieno pride my the pride my the pride primitive more the primitive more the primi nothing like a moon no like moon no gnat it stares through it stares through stares het het het het like a …
Posted in 11: COPYLEFT
Tagged michael farrell
blue hills 1, laurie duggan: broken hills
1 no drag phase mal__colm frasers feet epais fo eelshaped reser(voir & ? visi alors blanc nuage alors blanc nuage nothing next 4hun no hun cricked pat apt a dick crept carpet dick warm bread roll) albicocca conser noir cafe …
Posted in 11: COPYLEFT
Tagged Laurie Duggan, michael farrell
Walking Through the Blue Gate
Walking through, in/out: my son a shadow? His mind marks the boundaries, he sees only mercy. Out of my quiet yard and body – a threat to nothings. Confusion fails and a clear truth emerges from my thigh… In my …
Posted in 09: MUSIC
Tagged michael farrell
Michael Farrell Interviews Andrew Zawacki
In April this year, Michael Farrell and US poet Andrew Zawacki travelled to the Queenscliffe Festival of Words, catching a dose of cabin fever on the way – //0. Do you think Australian poets are a depressed lot? By and …
Posted in INTERVIEWS
Tagged Andrew Zawacki, michael farrell
