For those who listened to Macca, Australia All Over last Sunday, you may have heard him read this piece to air -

Tanami Trek.

Trekin’ across the Tanami, hundreds of kilometres to go,…

......it was a few days  out past the island of Haiti, and stories of the White Witch of Rose Hall, where the rough indigo blue of the Atlantic became the far gentler turquoise waters of the Caribbean. (I was only eleven years old) . The Atlantic ocean seemed like a  lonley and desolate expanse to me: the murky blue waters,extending all the way out to the horizon, on all sides, the ocassional passing of ships, the constant churning of the waves, the eternal rocking motion of the…

What we noticed while noodling about on the internets this week...

• David Prater documents the dialogue between Korean and Australian poets for Cordite 35.…

Usually when an opportunity crosses our desk we simply post it in the Events section with all the other opportunities for sydneypoetry.com members to go at with hammers and tongs. This one though is too delightfully named, and scoped, to go without better…

Bumf is an informal word used to describe, in a slightly derogatory way, the superfluous or unnecessary paper documents that fill our everyday life such as forms, Government documents, publicity material, junk mail etcetera.

Now if you are gentile and don’t like crudity be aware that this fascinating…

• Australian Poetry launches Sotto , a "monthly online members-only collection of interesting articles, commentary and poetry from contributors across the country."…

Adam Aitken, Tonto's Revenge (Tinfish Press 2011)



Tinfish Press is a small Hawai'ian publishing house run by Susan M Schultz, the poet who wrote Dementia Blog. It publishes…

In my day job I help businesses with their website strategy – I'm what's called an information architect. That's right, have a good laugh.

Anyway, one of the things I do is keep an eye on website statistics to see how sites are performing. This being a member site I thought it might be of interest to y'all to have a sneaky peak at the monthly…

Adam Ford has put out another poetry mixtape of awesome, and I just want to pinch his cheeks for coming up with the idea.

Being the 8th in an itinerant series of lists of poetry that I found online and brought home to love and hug and call George…

Poets included in this month's tape are MC Allan, Cate Kennedy, John Ashbery (an…

Kerry Leves

1948…

Originally posted on Adam in ( Glebe Sydney…

Cate Kennedy, The Taste of River Water (Scribe 2011)

When Cate Kennedy read, marvellously, from this book at the Sydney Writers' Festival, she talked her poems as meditations through narrative, and that's a nice description. Her poems generally have a narrative thread, whether it's…