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Commons, Cauliflowers & Comments
Poetry submissions for our 33rd issue close at midnight on 31 May -
that's just weeks away! Creative Commons seeks to engage with issues of authorship, sampling, editing and poetry in the digital world. Information wants to be free, right – but what about poetic information?
The Gendered Gothic: Dorothy Hewett’s Alice in Wormland
Dorothy Hewett and ‘zombies' are not generally found in the same sentence. However, Hewett liberally utilises Gothic tones and imagery in her poetry. These Gothic trappings do not serve only as motifs: they permeate the mood, conflicts and resolutions of Hewett's Alice in Wormland. This collection, published in 1987, combines pseudo-autobiographical elements with parody, mythology, and morbid images to ultimately reach a strangely optimistic resolution.
Zombie Haikunaut Renga Instructions
David Prater & Keiji Minato have been kind enough to ask me to lead a ‘Zombie Renga' and I'm very happy to accept such a wonderful offer! So welcome those of you who are new to renga, and welcome back to those of you who participated in Cordite's inaugural Haikunaut Island Renga last year!
Posted in BLOG ARCHIVES, DIALOGUE, Haikunaut / Renga
Tagged Ashley Capes, collaborative, haiku, renga, zombies
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The Vegetarian Zombie
he attacks crispers, drinking the black juice from dead fridges.
Zombie 2.0
We know more about the undead species who have lived in our hearts and dined on our minds than ever before. We have probed into their weaknesses, evaded their tricks and know well of their canny (and uncanny) chicanery. We know these things … because they were once like us. Let us not rest on our laurels. Let us be vigilant and as ready as we can be for the uneasy future that is Zombie 2.0.
David Prater Interviews the Spierigs
There are some characters, specifically the cop, who is an extreme example of an Australian personality, and when we thought about the six people who would carry this movie, they would all have to have very distinct personalities and somebody like that is definitely different to the Marian character [he of the three barrelled shotgun fame – ed.] … I mean, there’s never been an Aussie zombie comedy before.
Kieran Mangan ‘survives’ ‘Undead’ …
…what the Brothers Spierigs give us is exactly what we got (and loved) with Peter Jackson's Bad Taste. In fact, Undead is even technically a notch up from Jackson's work. I guess this Spierig/Jackson comparison is inevitable. How could you not do so if you make a super-solid and funny zombie flick in these great Southern parts of the world?
Robert Merkin: "Draft Dodgers & Veterans"
A friend of mine, a math professor, has shown me a paper from around 1995 which shows that the Vietnam birthday lottery draft was fundamentally misdesigned, favoring some birthdays, making others significantly more dangerous. I find the implications of that — well, I don't know how I find them.
Robert Merkin: "Returning, We Hear the Larks"
A lot of literature, unfortunately, tends to heap unique, exquisite beauty and virtue on Dying Young; impressionable young readers are encouraged to think they are missing something, and have failed Truth and Beauty somehow, if they reach age 30 with all their limbs.
Robert Merkin: "On Thomas Pynchon & Mass Hypnosis"
There's a lot of popular (and insightful) American fiction and screenwriting beginning in the '50s that plays around with this living-death lifestyle of mass hypnosis.
Robert Merkin: "As a little introduction to me and zombies"
As a little introduction to me and zombies, my head has always been filled with popular music, novelty songs of the moment, and one of them that had always stuck with me, from around 1960, was an American version of a Trinidadian Calypso song called “Zombie Jamboree” (or “Back to Back”) was written by Conrad Eugene Mauge, Jr, who performed as Lord Invader.
