poetry & ideas

17/3 THIS WRITING LIFE Our generation lucky or not to be born within social reach (meeting, correspondence) of giants? I call them gi...

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

Around & about Matt Hall's FALSE FRUITS ( Cordite Books , Castlemaine, '17) [salvaged from Facebook ] I hope this aint talki...

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

May 8th Friday the 29th April '16 was the last possible day to receive mail in Weymouth, eve of the early drive up to Heathrow, w...

1 Wake to 'friend request' from Giona Beltrametti! (Wake to the light of day, of course. Raise bamboo blind for Ushas… Flick des...

October 10th, '15 My cousin Mike Mullis's photos of kingfishers* pitch me headfirst into Charles Olson's marvellous poem beginni...

1/ So we visit the Bendigo Gallery again. Ben Quilty of course but much pleasure, as always, from the permanent collection. Len French...

[From Stuart Pearce, Melbourne] 24-11-14 Hi Kris   I only just got this. I’m extremely upset. I only communicated with him a few weeks ...

MICHAEL FARRELL Launch-speech for GIRLERY by Melinda Bufton (Inken Publisch, 2014), at Collected Works Bookshop, March 1st, 2014 First,...