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morning walk
in alexandria, sydney

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Reading in progress -

A various field - the chapbook on the top is Jen Crawford's Lichen Loves Stone. It arrived in today's mail - a beautiful small collection of poems from Susan M. Schultz's Tinfish Press in Hawai'i. It deserves a closer view -

Order from Tinfish here

Jen Crawford will have a new collection, Koel,
coming from Cordite Books in 2016.
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SOON soon

Dear music lovers, the curious and the courageous;

In January 2016, we celebrate 15 years of the NOW now.
A 6 night festival over three venues in Sydney.

at
107 Projects, Redfern
Paddington Uniting Church, Paddington
and Warehouse to be confirmed

We got late news that we had no funding at all, but have decided to go ahead with a festival powered by the energy of the musicians and artists involved. We are still pulling the program together, thus far, musicians from Norway, Switzerland, Japan, Marrickville and Redfern are confirmed :)

Watch this space, but block your diaries.

it's on.

8pm January 18th through to January 23rd
at:
107 Projects
107 Redfern St
Redfern
Sydney

Other venues & program coming SOON soon

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Shock of The Ordinary
Photographs 1975 – 2015
by Kurt Brereton

Introduction by Munro Jones with commentaries by the author

Collectors Deluxe Edition – only 50 signed and numbered copies.
Published by Jellied Tongue Press

$100 cost price + $20 postage in Australia/$50 International
(200pp 26cm x 26cm 115 colour/68 b/w photos perfect bound)

Taking orders now
contact Kurt Brereton here.

LAUNCH
Shoalhaven City Art Centre
Nowra
Saturday
December 19
at 12 - 2pm

NOTE The hardcopy edition usually sells out before launch date. 10 copies are held back for sale at launch. Any extra copies will be on sale at Gallery at retail price of $125.

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You are warmly invited to celebrate
two new poetry collections
from Vagabond Press

KEN BOLTON & PAM BROWN

with
Amanda Stewart
Chris Edwards
Ken Bolton
Pam Brown

3pm
Saturday 5th December

at
Parkview Hotel
corner Mitchell Road & Harley Street
Alexandria, Sydney

everyone welcome

For further information
from Vagabond Press
click here

How to get to Parkview Hotel
Mitchell & Harley, Alexandria
transport & map click here

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About London Journal/London Poem :
London Journal / London Poem is an account of the author's thinking and seeing while on a trip to London to visit son and daughter-in-law and to travel with them and his own partner, to Berlin and Barcelona. It is an amusing calibration of self-consciousness, speculation, stereotypes and detail, reflection and discovery.

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About Missing up :
These offbeat, fragmentary yet often discursive poems were written over three years up to spring 2015. In part, they epitomize the absurdities of contemporary materialism. Pam Brown's well-practised scepticism dismantles monumental intent and splices the remains into a shrewd melange of imagery and thoughtful lyric complemented by playfulness. For Pam writing poetry is a habit, a disorganised ritual. Her poetic inventories begin in everyday bricolage. Real things interrupt the poems the same way thoughts and phrases do. You know - the fridge over there, the bus stop, surf music on a radio, a raisin squashed against a floor tile - always backgrounding a connection to the 'social' as the poems make political and personal associative links. Though disquiet is present it is usually temporary - an optimistic wit plays through this idiosyncratic poetry as a kind of placebo. But, in the end, Pam Brown simply lets the language do the work.

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OTOLITHS

A new issue of Mark Young's great poetry journal Otoliths
is ready to read here.

As always, it's a cornucopia of delights, with work from
Pete Spence, Annette Plasencia, Shataw Naseri, Philip Byron Oakes, horace p sternwall, Kyle Hemmings, GS Smith, j4, fátima queiroz, Raymond Farr, Angelos Sakkis, John Lowther, Texas Fontanella, Mark Pirie, a. j. carruthers, Jack Galmitz, Marco Giovenale, Michael Aird, Karen Greenbaum-Maya, Dale Wisely, Olivier Schopfer, Anne Gorrick, Mike Gullickson, Simina Banu, Rob Cook, Andrew Topel, Michael De Rosa, Judith Roitman, Peter Ganick, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Eileen R. Tabios, Steve Dalachinsky, Jim Leftwich, John M. Bennett, Volomydyr Bilyk, Lakey Comess, Seth Howard, Nicolas Grenier, Christopher Barnes, Laurent Grison, Brendan Slater, Charles Wilkinson, John Vieira, Richard Kostelanetz, Howie Good, Pearl Pirie, Willie Smith, C.S. Fuqua, Márton Koppány, Sandy McIntosh, Charles Freeland, Jürgen O. Olbrich, Alexandre Pierrepont, Cecelia Chapman, Simon Perchik, Scott Keeney, Anneke Baeten, Branko Gulin, Martin Burke, Bill DiMichele, Bobbi Lurie, Felino A. Soriano, Karl Kempton, Michael Rothenberg, Jeff Harrison, Marcia Arrieta, Natsuko Hirata, Sanjeev Sethi, Robyn Art, Jesse Glass, Vaughan Rapatahana, Marilyn Stablein, Caleb Puckett, Shloka Shankar, Johannes S. H. Bjerg, hiromi suzuki, Katrinka Moore, Mark Staniforth, John Pursch, Mark Russell, sean burn, Bob Heman, Joe Balaz, Robert Lee Brewer, Stephen Nelson, PT Davidson, Tony Beyer, Jake Goetz, J. D. Nelson, Tom Brami, Michael D. Goscinski, John Hand, Edward Kulemin, Jill Jones, & Gian Luigi Braggio.

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