“In the Eye of the Beholder” by Zalehah Turner- title photo of Rochford St Review Issue 23
An excellent launch speech and review of Shaping the Fractured Self (ed. Heather Taylor-Johnson) appears in the latest issue of Rochford Street Review.
Read it HERE
I’m really looking forward to this one. I’ll be performing a mix of old & new work and it will be my pleasure to be appearing with Heather; poet, novelist, editor and all-round lovely person!
What began as a text poem about insomnia now has two music/spoken word iterations:
Blackness not with Lisa de Benedictis & airtone produced by Rob Walker. LISTEN HERE
supernovas of nothingness, produced by speck. LISTEN HERE
A mix of my poem Selling me by Anders Biörk from Sweden.
Back in June I posted the Grand City Break mix of Your world.
Here are some more interpretations of the poem by Mana Junkie
from Canada and my mix featuring Doxent, (Kuba Waszkiewicz) from Poland.
Reiswerk has also done an interesting mashup of my vocal with Kendra’s in Market Hacker!
In 2013 I mixed some Javolenus guitar samples with my own harmonicas and shakuhachi to create Over and Outback. Recently I’ve remixed this with Jay’s Dam.
Jay’s dam, Kondoolka Station
a thousand square mile dotpainting
and we
less than a dot
others have an advantage
seeing this land seasons ago as a lake
now a salt encrusted red plain in drought
animals lashed to this dying oasis
perfect skeletons picked bleached
undisturbed on their saline slab
they say camels and emus heading south
piled up against the dog fence
thwarted by mesh and electrons
a perfectly undressed kangaroo
white as an xray
flat on this sere horizon.
graeme grabs a femur
does a long john silver
makes a good impression
our guffaws break a stilled silence,
attempt to drown out mortality
as grains of salt
defying a deluge
(from tropeland)
by Rob Walker, Five Islands Press, 2015