Who is your favourite superhero and why?
I’d love to say it’s some less-well-known-to-the-general-public superhero like Machine Man or Metamorpho, but to be honest it’s a tie between Superman and Spider-Man, partly because their costumes are so striking and colourful, partly because they’re both nice-guy superheroes who always try to use their powers to help people [...]
Tag Archives: poetry
Adam Ford on life, superheroes, poetry, his Twitter novel and The Third Fruit is a Bird
October 16, 2009 – 8:05 am
Longing and the Aftermath of Something
September 12, 2009 – 8:32 pm
Recorded during the event ‘See What I’m Talking About’, Overload Poetry Festival 2009. Response to Andrew Watson’s photograph (in background). Video by my lovely sister Sonja Meyer. Here’s a review of the whole event by Simonne Michelle Wells on the Overland blog.
Queensland Poetry Festival special: Elizabeth Bachinsky
August 20, 2009 – 8:03 am
The Queensland Poetry Festival runs from 21 to 23 August. Graham Nunn has helped me to select three poets to feature on LiteraryMinded in the weeks leading up to the festival. Revisit number one, A.F. Harrold; or number two, Hinemoana Baker, if you like. Enjoy!
Elizabeth Bachinsky is the author of three collections of poetry, Curio (BookThug, [...]
Queensland Poetry Festival special: Hinemoana Baker
August 13, 2009 – 8:01 am
The Queensland Poetry Festival runs from 21 to 23 August. Graham Nunn has helped me to select three poets to feature on LiteraryMinded in the weeks leading up to the festival. Hinemoana Baker is number two. Revisit number one, A.F. Harrold, if you like. Enjoy!
Arts Queensland Poet in Residence 2009 Hinemoana Baker’s writings have featured [...]
Queensland Poetry Festival special: A.F. Harrold
August 6, 2009 – 7:53 am
The Queensland Poetry Festival runs from 21 to 23 August. Graham Nunn has helped me to select three poets to feature on LiteraryMinded in the weeks leading up to the festival. A.F. Harrold is number one. Enjoy!
A.F. Harrold is an English poet and performer who does things with words that aren’t always normal. Although, that [...]
They will give me new parts
July 26, 2009 – 1:42 pm
part blog-post, part insight into current creative development
I ate banana pancakes this morning. I saw an old man on a bike in matching denims and a stackhat. I looked into somebody’s eyes. There are nine paper tasks on the floor.
They will give me new parts like Frankenstein’s monster.
A producer this week told me about Roger [...]
How to Eat a Wolf by Sharanya Manivannan: a poem
July 16, 2009 – 8:17 am
Does all lust start and
end like this? Don’t get me
wrong. I loved my wolf.
I held him tethered like
a pussycat. I nursed
the rumble in his belly
with hands gentle as a burglar’s.
He lived on milk
and blood and ocean. He
had violets for his furs.
It’s just that he was
beginning to devour me.
He nuzzled me with claws,
fondled me with fangs
sharp [...]
Notes for Somebody in Berlin: a poem by Bel Schenk
May 14, 2009 – 7:52 am
1.
You are worth keeping
like the ticket stub for this museum.
You are worth remembering
like the catastrophe I am trying to understand.
2.
I tell you about my school.
Between the green glow of the exit light
and the echoing sounds of Oh Tannenbaum, Oh Tannenbaum
I look for families in the school hall.
A brother gives the middle finger.
A grandfather slumps in [...]
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Melbourne Writers Festival 2009 diary part five: words like triangles (a further experiment in the confessional)
This post is a creative, experimental mash-up of personal experience plus one of the poems Bernhard Schlink read on Sunday 23 August in RMIT Capitol Theatre, in a session called ‘Pleasure and Pain: Poetry and the Body’ at Melbourne Writers Festival. The poem is called ‘Ballad of the Outer Life’ or ‘Ballade des auBeren Lebens’, and is by [...]