Poetry

Game Over selected for touring video poetry program

Poetry + Video: a touring program, curated by Marie Craven, is an hour-long collection surveying diverse contemporary expressions of poetry in video. A wide range of approaches includes: screen adaptations of page poetry, prose poetry, animations, poetry from found text and media, poetic cinema, text-on-screen, and spoken word. The program is designed to be highly portable, and easily obtainable on request to screening spaces in any location. It is available for small to medium-sized venues in Australia and other places during 2019/2020.

I’m very pleased to have my video Game Over: Grand Final Edition as part of this program.

The premiere screening will be on 4 May, 2019 at Garden Gallery, Murwillumbah, Australia. See the program itinerary for more details.

To request the Poetry + Video program in your location, contact Marie Craven.

In conversation with Rosanna Licari, editor of StylusLit

StylusLit is an Australian, bi-annual online literary journal, publishing poetry, short fiction, novel excerpts, creative non-fiction, interviews and reviews. I had the great pleasure of being interviewed by editor Rosanna Licari about my writing practice and its relation to video poetry and more. I also have a poem based on my experiences living in Los Angeles in the early 80s.

An excerpt of the interview was republished on the Moving Poems website, along with an excerpt of another interview with video-poet Lucy English.

Click here to read the interview.

Click here to read the poem Vox Pops, LA ’82.

Click here to read the Moving Poems article.

Hexapod in Atticus Review

My video poem HEXAPOD has been published in Atticus Review,  a daily online journal that publishes fiction, poems, and creative nonfiction, as well as graphic art, mixed media, music essays, and, on occasion, blog posts, interviews, and non-traditional book reviews. It’s also been presented on Moving Poems weekly digest.

HEXAPOD previously was shortlisted and screened at 5th Ó Bhéal Poetry-Film Competition(Cork, Ireland, 2017) and screened at the 6th International Video Poetry Festival, Athens, January, 2018.

Click here to watch HEXAPOD at Atticus Review

Gigs in February … and March!

UPDATE! After two sell-out shows and 5 star reviews, Alison Paradoxx presents Floral Peroxide at The Libertine by Louis will have an encore performance on 17th March. Click here for more info and bookings.

I’m doing a bunch of gigs with some truly fabulous performers in and around the Adelaide Fringe Festival during February! It would be great to see you there. Each one will be different!!

Friday 8th February, 7:00 – 10:30pm @ Red Rhino Room, Hilton

with singer-songwriters Khristian Mizzi and Fergus Maximus… I’m doing an extended set of poems. Click here for more info and tickets.

Sunday 10th February, 1:00 – 4pm @ Arty Records HQ, Christies Beach

In case you miss the previous event, or want some more, this time with singer-songwriters Khristian Mizzi and Nick West… I’m doing another extended set of poems. Click here for info and bookings.

Saturday 16th February, 7:00 – 9:30pm @ Broadcast Bar, Adelaide.

Paroxysm Press – The Showcase Series: As part of this Fringe Event, I’m doing a multi-media spot along with five other performance / spoken word poets, showcasing the best of hard-hitting, entertaining writing. With Caroline Reid, Heather McGinn, Heather Taylor-Johnson,  Kami, and  Sean Williams, all brought together by Kerryn Tredrea. Click here for more info and bookings. Click here for the Facebook event.

Saturday / Sunday 23rd/24th February, 8:30 … Click here for more.

A Skeleton of Desire

 

A Skeleton of Desire was published by Garron Publishing in October 2018 as part of their Southern-Land Poets Chapbook series.

It contains 10 poems that are mostly based on the human body in various ways – the organisation of the bones in the arms, their muscles, their development, dysfunction and recovery. Much of the imagery is derived from re-interpreting the original meanings of the latin names for body parts, diseases, and the environment they exist within.

Most of these poems have been previously published, with the five cardinal signs of inflammation and High Dependency originally appearing in the Medical Journal of Australia. Sensurious (Works on Paper) is derived from texts accompanying an exhibition of drawings by Judy Morris that were then used to create a video which was shortlisted for the Red Room Company / Royal Botanic Gardens New Shoots Poetry Prize, 2016. Dial Tone was awarded third place in the University of Canberra Health Poetry Prize 2017. No Glutamate is based on a scientific paper published with Judy Morris and our colleagues about the underlying neural pathways mediating pain.

Contents

A Skeleton of Desire
Sensurious (Works on Paper)
manipulandum
polydactyly
No Glutamate
the five cardinal signs of inflammation
High … Click here for more.

A Skeleton of Desire

 

A Skeleton of Desire was published by Garron Publishing in October 2018 as part of their Southern-Land Poets Chapbook series.

It contains 10 poems that are mostly based on the human body in various ways – the organisation of the bones in the arms, their muscles, their development, dysfunction and recovery. Much of the imagery is derived from re-interpreting the original meanings of the latin names for body parts, diseases, and the environment they exist within.

Most of these poems have been previously published, with the five cardinal signs of inflammation and High Dependency originally appearing in the Medical Journal of Australia. Sensurious (Works on Paper) is derived from texts accompanying an exhibition of drawings by Judy Morris that were then used to create a video which was shortlisted for the Red Room Company / Royal Botanic Gardens New Shoots Poetry Prize, 2016. Dial Tone was awarded third place in the University of Canberra Health Poetry Prize 2017. No Glutamate is based on a scientific paper published with Judy Morris and our colleagues about the underlying neural pathways mediating pain.

Contents

A Skeleton of Desire
Sensurious (Works on Paper)
manipulandum
polydactyly
No Glutamate
the five cardinal signs of inflammation
High … Click here for more.