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A portmanteau. A treasure trove. A time capsule. A poetry book. A diary. A photo album. Memories. Dreams. Wishes. Hopes. An open letter to an unsuspecting public. An intimate confession to close friends. A declaration of intent. A whisper of love. A personal record. An experiment in introspection. A performance space. A political rant. A wild yawp. Why do any of us publish our words and images online? Come, dream with me.Home, sweet home…
I am home again, thanks to the efforts of pretentiousgeek who drove me here and tucked me in… To those of you who worked out that it wasn’t minor if I was in hospital that long, you’re right, but I didn’t want to panic anyone until I knew what was going on. I have a…
Astrid vs Car
As some of you know, I had a little prang yesterday morning. I’m in hospital but mostly fine. I won’t be making most of my appointments this week, sorry. Don’t have net access but phone calls welcome! (This message brought to you by Jack and the letters SMS.)
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It’s official: Monsanto is nuts
News from Greenpeace: Monsanto is trying to patent a new invention: the pig.
The things people make
From Japan, the boyfriend arm pillow for women who like to sleep on a male chest and don’t have one handy. There’s also now a girlfriend lap pillow.
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Periscope report
Well, the weather up there on the surface looks windy! But poetry readings went well and were warmly received. My session was followed by some superb indigenous songs by Lou Bennett and Ricardo Idagi and the most glorious poetry from Yahia Alsamawy, a survivor of…
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Dragons!
I so hope this is real…
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Next poetry gig!
Come and hear me perform the poems influenced by my heritage at the In Other Words poetry festival with Judith Rodriguez and Joan Davis on Sunday from 2.00–2.45pm in the session “Women’s Own Readings”. The venue is the Centre for Ideas, Federation Hall, Victoria…
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It could always be worse
It’s rare I’ll say I’m glad there are Australians in war zones, but when I read articles like this I think about how much worse it might be if they weren’t. Australians had to ‘red card’ US soldiers to stop them killing (even more) civilians? US soldiers scare me. And…
Phoenix Emberstone
passionate political poet
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