The first 2008 release is from The Tradition by Juliana Spahr
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Please specify which titles you are ordering The following Tiny Books are still available: Speak which by Jill Jones all alone again by Dan Waber Steps: A Notebook by Tom Beckett ...And Then The Wind Did Blow... by Ernesto Priego some hay by Lars Palm
go here for poetry on monday night in sydney. looks like it could be a bit naughty. here's hoping...
stop press update friday 25th april - Berndt Sellheim is teaching a class on monday night so Sarah-Jane Norman will be reading instead.
12.4.08
I love Gregory Corso
like I love
millipedes
like I love
I love like
piano rolls
sound like
takeaway
so
hold the margarine !
JT likes
the one who says
she’ll continue
to be
‘a misunderstood
free agent’
Tom Aquinas says
I can tell you
all about time,
but I can’t
tell you
what it is
what some say is
a parallel world
is actually
a tv repeat
how many repeats
half-remembered
in one lifetime ?
oh dear,
now
I’m buried,
it’s the wrong grave
I’m next
to a model pyramid
Cimitero Accatolico per gli Stranieri, Testaccio,
Rome, 2003 (foto by Susan Howe)
click the photo to enlarge to read the poem on gregory corso's gravestone
8.4.08
Listening to :
The beauty of Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu’s songs on his solo album moves me to tears. His strong, high voice soars so smoothly. In Gurrumul History (I Was Born Blind) his singing reminds me of the intense sweetness of Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons. Watch and listen to I Was Born Blind.
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu is from North East Arnhem Land, blind since birth, he plays,uniquely, right-hand strung guitars left-handed. He was formerly in Yothu Yindi and is now a member of Saltwater Band. The slow pace of most of the songs invokes a calm, contemplative mood. In the moderate reggae/rock of Saltwater Band's Marwurrumburr, a song about a wild cat, Gurrumul's studio version on this album renders the language almost onomatopoeiac. His songs are in three Indigenous languages and sometimes in English.
The album is produced by Skinny Fish music in Winnelli in the Northern Territory.
6.4.08
On her blog Mutually Said, Tracy Ryan writes about a recent production of Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living in Paris and about her re-energised love for Jacques Brel’s music and performance. Read Tracy Ryan’s poem ‘Watching Brel' in the soon-to-be-completed next issue of Jacket magazine.
