Just home from Sydney and my big news for 2009 is that The Ghost Poetry Project (working title) is being published later this year with Puncher & Wattman. That’s right, call it an exclusive. You heard it first here at Blog Eats Poet.
http://www.puncherandwattmann.com/
This is a big deal for me after terrifying myself at haunted sites and working so hard on the manuscript. David Musgrave and Greg McLaren are doing exciting stuff at P&W and I’m really happy to be with a publisher who values the importance of taking risks. So now I guess it’s time to organise a ‘reading tour’ for later on in the year. Some time from August. Full speed ahead.
While I was up in Sydney I also got to check out the first week of the Short and Sweet Play Festival at Newtown Theatre. My play Cable Car of Death was on among others by Tom Taylor and Bridgette Burton. A big thanks to the cast who did a great job: Lisa Fineberg as Kat, Matt Thomson as Ollie, Matt Zochling as Floyd and Johnny Cordukes as Harry Houdini. Check them out here.
http://kadmusarts.com/festivalphotos/images/82_CableCarofDeath014.jpg
Oh and i just finished devouring a book called The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Such a beautiful tale. LOVED it!
"When someone wants a sheep, it is proof that they exist."
"As if, instead of stars, I'd given you a string of little laughing bells..."
AND why not follow
http://www.timeoflight.blogspot.com/
written by poet Miles Allinson... 100 poems in 100 days... an experiment of the creative process... Miles is the true guerilla poet!
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8 comments:
any respectable book-tour must include the literary hotspot of wagga... actually, i heard you were being specially invited back to the albury festival, after wowing the bigwigs last year. 2 towns sounds like the beginnings of a tour...
oh man, that'd be awesome! thanks for the goss. & that would be perfect timing too. i'll come & crash on your back lawn.
Fantastic news! Can't wait to have the book in my hot little hands... and I'm sure you can't, either! Will definitely be present at the Melbourne stop on your tour...
thanks Lisa... & you eat the best looking vegie food I've ever seen!
great news for the ghost poems and their author. the ones i've read so far leave me wanting more.
(queensland poetry festival submissions are still open).
hey Louise... thanks for stopping by. nice to hear from you. hope all is well up there in Qld. & ta for the QPF nudge, you never know, I might get up there one day.
Great news, Nathan. Can't wait!
And "When someone wants a sheep, it is proof that they exist" - Love it! I've been reading all the wrong philosophy books. Cogito ergo sum ... fuck that!
Glad you're safe from the fires, mate. My travel plans have stalled in Queensland, so I don't think I'll make it across the VIC/SA border, but hopefully I'll see you when I get back to Melbourne ... before you get all famous and shit and go on tour ...
hey Ryan... yeah forget Descartes... not poetic enough. hope you havent stalled in the flood waters! look forward to catching up in Melb. EWF most likely. cheers
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