September, festival season, is always my favourite time in Brisbane. The Spiegeltent has appeared by the river; the Lantern Walk illuminates South Bank; and I’m completely immersed in wonderful Brisbane Festival art. Whether for OffStreet Press or in poetry, I’ve been writing up a storm. (It’s nearly rainy season Continue reading
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Avid Reader: Voiceworks #89 Launch
Express Media’s awesome Voiceworks Magazine is slowly working their way to world domination, and Brisbane is next on the map. VW #89 — Space lauches at Avid Reader on July 26, and we’ve got a super-cool trio of Brisbane writers to help us: Michelle Law, Jack Venig, and Alberto Vasquez Sanchez.
Voiceworks publishes the words and art of Australians aged under 25. Come along to learn more, hear awesome writerly talents, buy Voiceworks, and find out how to submit your poetry, prose and non-fiction. Also there will be wine.
Find out more on the FB event page, or follow @Express__Media for updates.
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Can’t Be Artsed #5: All The Things
This week, while I should have been attending to The To-Do List, I instead attended a diverse bunch of artsy gigs. It was pretty rad. I should be studying/working/poeting/editing, but I wanted to at least jot down some thoughts before I lose ’em.
Henry Rollins, May 3
I’d never heard of Mr Rollins, nor his career with punk band Black Flag, before friends gifted me a ticket for my birthday. I decided to head in blind and find out what this spoken-word maestro has to offer on the fly.
Shelmerdine, my GoMA bird
After a lovely morning exploring Contemporary Australia: Women at the Gallery of Modern Art today, I procraftinated in Fiona Hall’s interactive installation for children, Fly Away Home.
Can’t Be Artsed #4: World Theatre Festival 2012
I only managed to catch the very tail end of WTF12 at Brisbane Powerhouse, but I’m so glad I did. We saw The Lady from the Sea and Shabana Rehman.
The Lady from the Sea
This multimedia work is an Indian-Australian coproduction based on a Norwegian play by Henrik Ibsen. Continue reading
Can’t Be Artsed #3: Mini-Reviews and Some Mini-Films
It’s summer in Brisbane, and I’m going on a lot of movie dates just to escape the heat. Here are a few mini-reviews of recent offerings: film Chronicle and film festival FLiCKERFEST.
Film: Chronicle
This sci-fi thriller, in which three ordinary teens score alien superpowers, is the directorial debut of Josh Trank. Chronicle is a fairly short film, at 83 minutes, but it takes a while to get going — so long we wondered if we were in the wrong theatre. The protagonist, Andrew (Dane DeHaan), holds the handy-cam for most of this found-footage-esque flick, and for the first quarter it’s a gritty urban drama. Continue reading
After Bukowski
For SPOKEN‘s Bukowski night, mistress of ceremonies Mandy Beaumont asked me to write a letter to the dirty old poet. Last week, before the gig, I shared his poem Bluebird. In reading Bukowski last week, I came to appreciate his honesty the most. So here’s my — hopefully — honest response to Bluebird.
To the dearest and dirtiest
after Bukowski’s “bluebird”
how do you keep your aviary neat?
nobody sees the pretty bluebird
that sits so still in your dark;
does the stink not ring out?
is that what the whiskey is for?
are you trying to smoke out the bird? Continue reading
SPOKEN: Bukowski
This time tomorrow I’ll be getting ready to read at the Charles Bukowski-themed SPOKEN at the State Library Cafe. It runs from 5.30 till 7.30pm, and features Sommer Tothill, Kevin Spink, Dan Eady, as well as yours truly. There will also be live body art by The Pillow Book Girls, music by Bernard Houston and band, an open mic, and the raffling off of one of the very last copies of The Voyage, my first chapbook. All that for free!
Can’t Be Artsed #2: Mary Poppins Mini-Review
Theatre: Mary Poppins
Lyric Theatre, QPAC
I had the pleasure of seeing the Disney stage musical twice this season. It’s a lot of fun, and you’ll most certainly leave humming the tunes. But it’s not practically perfect in every way.
Zenobia Frost 