From the DJ Booth: Going Down Swinging 37 Launch Party
DJ and poet Sean M. Whelan looks back at the launch party that was.
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DJ and poet Sean M. Whelan looks back at the launch party that was.
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Continue readingWe found this explosion of an interview – A Brilliant Fantastic Great Interview with Pi O – in the sixth issue of Going Down Swinging, published in Spring 1984.
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Continue readingThe dramatic finale to poet Omar J. Sakr’s ambitious drive across Australia.
Continue readingPoet Omar J. Sakr attempts to drive across Australia – and back again – in just nine days.
Continue readingAs the first season of ABC’s Glitch wraps up, Matilda Dixon-Smith hopes there is room for more in Australian television.
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Continue readingPoet Omar J. Sakr attempts to drive across Australia – and back again – in just nine days.
Continue readingThe Depressionist movement emerged at the turn of the century with a group of Melbourne-based artists whose mild disappointment with almost everything could no longer go unexpressed.
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