The Earth is singing

by | May 17, 2008 | Uncategorized

This is one of the most beau­ti­ful art­icles I’ve ever read​.Me, I like to think of the Earth as essen­tially a giant Tibetan singing bowl, flicked by the middle finger of God and set to a mes­mer­iz­ing, low ring for about 10 bil­lion years until the...

Late notice: Poetry gig, Tuesday May 6

by | May 4, 2008 | Uncategorized

It’s been a while, but I have been invited to per­form my poetry at The Spin­ning Room this Tues­day. I’ll be read­ing for around 20 minutes start­ing from around 9.30 and there’s an open sec­tion start­ing from around 8.30pm.I was hoping to have more...

Vale Ted Lord

by | May 15, 2007 | Uncategorized

Ted Lord was a poet and com­munity-minded indi­vidual who hosted Dan O’Con­nell poetry on a Sat­urday for many, many years in Mel­bourne. I was sad this morn­ing to read of his death, although he’d had a long life and from what I can gather,...

This Saturday: Women’s poetry

by | Mar 8, 2007 | Uncategorized

One last thing for women’s day: “World Poetry and the Fed­er­a­tion of Aus­tralian Writers are com­mit­ted to research, curate and pub­li­cise through their extens­ive net­works to present the monthly poetry@fedsquare event between 2–4PM on the second Sat­urday of...

First poem in a long time

by | Oct 20, 2006 | Uncategorized

Saw Chil­dren of Men last night. Quite intense. This (draft only) was the result. Why we did nothing Men are being tor­tured right now in Guantanamo Bay Here on our island a whole class of people Can now be detained without charge Indefinitely They will be the...