I’m really excited that one of my short stories has been accepted for the highly-regarded Australian anthology Short and Twisted published by Celapene Press.
Cath Kenneally read an earlier version of “Running out of time” on Radio Adelaide’s Writers Radio a while back, but I think that this one will really count as “published”!
(cover of last year’s collection.)
Plympton gopher – the poem I recorded with Max_Mo – will be aired this Saturday on Radio National’s poeticA program. Every year or so poeticA features poets working with sound under the banner of audio/file/poets. I last appeared on audio/file with poem on the underground in 2008. This time I share the show with sound poets James Laidler and Don Stewart, Emily Zoey Baker, Miles Merrill and Sofie Loizou, Paul Mitchell and Bill Buttler, Ian Gibbins, Jeremy Richards, Taqralik Partridge and Guido del Fabbro, Eddy Burger, Alex Selenitch, Robyn Rowland and Lynn Saoirse and Josephine Scicluna and Tom Kazas.
You can have a sneak preview HERE.
A poem I wrote about a slug has been awarded Friendly Street Poets poem of the month award. Read it HERE if you can stomach it. By the way – it is inadvisable to eat raw slugs like Fungus the Bogeyman. Something about inflammation of the brain…
It’s our first really hot spell in the Adelaide Hills this summer. 39°C today and a possible 43°C (109°F!) on New Year’s Eve. These hot days always remind me of my poem January Drought which was published on the Australian Reader website a few years back…
I. A day
aged and crippled gums weep leaves
which whisper
as they fall to kiss the earth
(more…)
Wishing you all a cynical Christmas,
Rob.
p.s:
See also Jesus, the sequel on the wordfire website..