Michael Farrell

2012-01-23T01:46:18.130Z

Michael Farrell reads at the Gun Club in Newcastle, Sunday October 2nd. This poetry reading was the final event of the Critical Animals symposium, as part of the TINA (This Is Not Art) festival held annually in Newcastle. The Gun Club, as we dubbed it, is really the United Services Club, a wonderful building that dates back to 1884 when it was the chambers for the Newcastle Borough. The building was designed by the city engineer John Sharp in the "Victorian free classical style with rendered brickwork", according to a Heritage assessment done in 2004. The Committee room, where the reading took place, is a room with a large table and chairs, some lounges, and a hefty chunk of war memorabilia from conflicts of the 19th & 20th century. Most notably, just out of frame in this shot, is a captured Japanese command flag, and behind the poet in this frame is a Buddha-like figure given pride of place on the wall. A plaque mislabels the figure as a goddess of plenty "souvernired" from the Chinese Boxer Rebellion when actually it is a goddess of mercy, as pointed out by poet Eileen Chong who was also reading her work at this event. On the fireplace mantle at the back of the room is a cluster of decommissioned munitions, mostly small missiles, and some smaller ammo that had been given metal handles and turned into a trophy of sorts. It was on one of these silver bullets that I rested my little fish-eye lens. As the wide-frame turns out, Mickey Faz is quite away in the distance of the frame, and the space of the room seems the proper subject of the video, into which the poet enters sound. Unfortunately the recording quality of the sound doesn't capture the way the poets entered sound into the space, although the amplification system didn't do their noise justice either. As people with fish-eye cameras, this will have to be a limitations of our world: we film a space around the poet and then poorly represent the sound he enters in to fill out the event.

Pam Brown reading at the NZEPC Home & Away Conference

2010-11-22T03:20:26.000Z

Pam Brown read at the NZEPC Home & Away Conference in Sydney in September 2010.

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Adrian Wiggins reading at the NZEPC Conference

2010-11-22T03:17:12.000Z

A video of my reading at the NZEPC Home & Away Conference in Sydney in September 2010.

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Eileen Chong at NSW Parliament Soiree

2010-11-03T22:29:57.000Z

Site member Eileen Chong read at the Redroom Company's NSW Parliament Poetry Soiree.

Fiona Wright at Sydney Writers Festival

2010-10-21T11:45:06.000Z

Fiona Wright took part in the Red Room Company's Poem to Share event at the 2010 Sydney Writers Festival.

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Michael Farrell

Pam Brown reading at the NZEPC Home & Away Conference

Adrian Wiggins reading at the NZEPC Conference

Eileen Chong at NSW Parliament Soiree

Fiona Wright at Sydney Writers Festival