Last Saturday morning dad finally succumbed to the GBM brain tumour which had been eating away at his life for too long.
Thankyou dad for encouraging my love of language and sense of humour. You were the best father. Rest in peace.
(photo: Ben)
Another event we went to recently which I’ve been slow to pass on was Zephyr Quartet’s wonderful performance Montage on October 16 at the Mercury Cinema, Adelaide.
Zephyr never cease to amaze me with their original compositions, their technical ability and the diversity of their presentations. This time they played original compositions by Zoe Barry, Angelina Zucco, Catherine Oates, Belinda Gehlert, Chris Martin & PJ Noack as live soundtracks to short films by Jason Lam, Jo Kerlogue, Luku and Catherine James.
This month the quartet travels to the Netherlands to perform with Leigh Warren and Dancers at the Holland Dance Festival. Good luck, guys.
Come and listen to Adelaide’s best local and interstate poets reading their work. Hear an expert reading and discussion of a dead poet.
Where: St Bartholomew’s Church, 77 Beulah Rd, Norwood
When : 7.30pm, Thursdays
October 15th October 29th November 12th
Cost: $5 entry
Raising funds for the Magdalene Centre for the Homeless
Further enquiries: Aidan Coleman at cheapgravel@yahoo.com
Thursday 15th October
Jude Aquilina
Steve Evans
Jules Leigh Koch
Tom Sullivan &
Dr Jacqueline Clarke
(Uni of Adelaide)
discusses Prudentius
(Sorry – you’ve missed this one. So did I, due to other commitments.)
Thursday 29th October
Ken Bolton
Maggie Emmett
Jeri Kroll
Rob Walker
&
Dr Tom Burton
(Uni of Adelaide)
discusses William Barnes
(Sorry – you’ve missed this one too. It was a cracker!)
Thursday 12th November
Dr Stephen McInerney
(Campion College, Sydney)
discusses Robert Frost
Stephen Lawrence
Stephen McInerney (NSW)
Juliet A. Paine
Sue Penberthy
(Your last chance! Don’t miss this one!)
Doors Open: 7:30 pm (7:45 pm start)
Where: St Bartholomew’s Church, 77 Beulah Rd, Norwood
I’m really sorry I didn’t promote this earlier. There’s been a lot of other stuff happening in my life and this website has been sadly neglected. Thanks for the invitation as guest reader, Aidan. It was a fantastic night, with very gratifying feedback from the audience.
– Rob.
My son Matt invited me to see a Hiptones “Cobra” performance at the Wheatsheaf last night when I told him about the Max_Mo work I’d been doing with Derek Pascoe. It was my first experience of Cobra and I loved it. It seems like Cobra is to music as TheatreSports is to drama. And the Keith Johstone of Cobra is Zorn. Anyway, it’s quite exciting watching talented musicians (Stephen Whittington – Prompter & misc instruments, Derek Pascoe – Tenor saxophone, Chris Martin – Piano, Hilary Kleinig – Cello, Adam Ritchie – Guitar/Laptop & Jarrad Payne- Drums ) virtually composing as they play and leaving space for the others. Like TheatreSports, the real skill seems to lie in accepting others’ offers, rather than trying to be the prima donna. It was great to see Hilary who told me that on Sunday at the same venue Zephyr Quartet had actually played Belinda Gehlert’s dunes, which was based on my poem dunes: perlubie beach. Funny place, Adelaide!
"Origin" by Martina Angela Müller
I’m very gratified to have work published in the US literary magazine Cortland Review. The Review, which includes poetry, short fiction and reviews, is published solely online out of Cortland, New York and includes recorded audio versions (read by the poets themselves.)
The Darkening Eucalyptic is an homage (in title only) to the great Ern Malley. It was written a couple of years back when I was experimenting with block-text and run-on sentences as poetry. At the time it seemed to be a factual poem about cutting up a tree. Looking back, it seems to be another poem about death.
It’s a strange thing, but often I don’t discover the underlying meaning of my poems until years later.
I share publication in Issue 44 of this fine journal with Julia Alter, Kurt Brown, Alex Dimitrov, Gregory Lawless, Austin MacRae, Kirby Olson, Simon Perchik, Marvyn Petrucci, Dan Veach, Ryan Vine, Hilde Weisert, Marjory Wentworth, Ross White, Michael Wynn, Haley Carrollhach, Mariko Nagai, an interview with Dan Brown by David M. Katz and David Rigsbee’s book review of “Divine Comedy: Journeys through a Regional Geography, Three New Works” by John Kinsella.
