poetry & ideas

"…because like Jonas himself I find myself travelling towards my destiny in the belly of a paradox ." Thomas Me...

Listening to the British Library's British Poets CD, which Robert Mitchell kindly gave me the other day because, disappointingly, it...

"21st October: On this day in 1969 Jack Kerouac died. The Lonesome Traveller. Among friends & allies here in Heaven." Our not...

Preface [Posts shared/retrieved from Facebook] ( October 4, '15 ) DAVID PEPPERELL : Dear George. Thanks for the ad [ HOWL readin...

The Beach Report : 11/1/14, from the Elwood Beach kiosk We're done, mid-morning, as the colour of the day (cloud-grey & white) be...

Melbourne 16 November/ 30 December, 2009 Dear Bernard, I've begun watching the DVD of Richard Lerner's What happened to Kerouac ? --...

January 13th, 2009 Melbourne Dear Bernard, Can I take you back a few weeks to a telephone conversation we had? I'd rung you after watchi...

In the eternal conversation in my head, I continue to worry at the theme of --and here I'm struggling to find the words-- 'person ...

6th December,'07 Hi Kris, I'm trying to get hold of a rare poetry book titled Bellyfulls by Nanao Sakaki, translated by Neale Hunte...

Melbourne, May 9-12,'07 Dear Bernard, My month came & went --April "with his schowres sweete" etc., "Thanne longen f...