The River Road Poetry Series

By the !st December 2007 I will be ready to launch the River Road Poetry Series, with a feast of recordings by fabulous Australian poems, read by their makers. The eries will start with will be three delicious anthologies - The Philosophy of Clothes, New Felons, Scissors, Paper, Fire, Water and collections by Michael Sharkey, Brook Emery, Judith Beveridge, Stephen Edgar, David Musgrave, joanne burns and Susan Hampton. And that's just for starters.

The series will establish River Road Press - a brand new publishing house that will focus on the poetry as a spoken art. Poetry as it should be up close and personal - Coming soon to CD /MP3 / PC/Mac near you.

At the moment River Road Press is by invitation only and is not seeking submissions from poets but if you want to kept posted on what is happening send your email to RiverRoadPress(at) gmaildotcoom to subscribe to the newsletter.

Brown Rock Dreaming it's a Dog

Of all the thoughts submerged, in cold
water stillness, I find you, sleeping,
breathing just above
the water line, good dog, good dog.

Cloud Me

These late July clouds were auditioning for a part in Cloud Me - an argument in the form of a poem which you can read in foam:e 4
- one strand argues that Dawkins is short-sighted and the real stayer in  what goes to make up the  human form is good old water.

24, 25, 26....

In an inexplicble trifecta effect, MTC Cronin, the guest editor of the next issue of Cordite, has selected two of my poems in all Innocence - that being the theme of Issue 26 and the anonymous submission selection method.

The last two of Cordite's guest editors, Clair Gaskin and alicia sometimes, also gave me the editors tick. Very mysterious but pleasing. You can check out Dispossesion in Cordite 25 and Party Platform in Cordite24.

Other work soon to be hatched to the public is a spoken word piece called Bambi-raptor, which will be out in the next Double CD Issue 25 of Going Down Swinging . Some one in my house assures me Bambi-raptor proves I in the grip of a mental disorder - so listen carefully.