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Dave Drayton

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reader/writer/drinker of Dr Pepper/bad at dancing but closer to comprehending its gist

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Joined March 2009
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We are thrilled to share that the enchanting, atmospheric novel #StrangersAtThePort by Lauren Aimee Curtis has been longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Awards 2024 ๐ŸŽ‰@_milesfranklin Learn more: perpetual.com.au/insights/peโ€ฆ
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couple of trips south in the next few weeks come say g'day?
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โ€˜Queering Ecopoet(h)icsโ€™ edited by @WilloDrummond & @StuartABarnes is now live! bit.ly/3UgFmy6 ๐ŸŒˆ Featuring 27 extraordinary poems that showcase a vibrant multiplicity of queer subjectivities & express radical care for our entwined human & more-than-human worlds.
The cover image of โ€˜Queering Ecopoet(h)icsโ€™, edited by Dr Willo Drummond and Stuart Barnes includes a photo of a rainbow over the grey-green ocean, framed by soft pastel greens.

ALT The cover image of โ€˜Queering Ecopoet(h)icsโ€™, edited by Dr Willo Drummond and Stuart Barnes includes a photo of a rainbow over the grey-green ocean, framed by soft pastel greens.

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two geniuses with seeds of a ceramic menagerie
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An unspeakably beautiful @OverlandJournal cover today by Sofia Sabbagh โค๏ธ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ
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A Statement from the Board of Overland Literary Journal overland.org.au/2024/02/statโ€ฆ
Statement of the Board of Overland Literary Journal - Overland literary journal

Statement of the Board of Overland Literary Journal - Overland literary journal

We, the Board of Overland literary journal, make the following statement in support of Editors-in-chief Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk and the entire Overland staff. We are a diverse Board made up...

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new p(l)antoum in the wild, amongst a tonne of other gems in @corditepoetry 111: Baby, w/ thanks to @shastradeo & Liam Ferney cordite.org.au/content/poetrโ€ฆ
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ABR congratulates Dan Hogan (@packetofchips ), the winner of the 2024 Peter Porter Poetry Prize!
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Happy Siggies Day everyone signalsmidwest.bandcamp.com/โ€ฆ fun fact: wrote the progression, then wrote it backwards in order, played it along with the recording (sounded very wrong), flipped the audio around, got it first try. not new idea by any means, but felt magical when it worked
January & Seven, by Signals Midwest

January & Seven, by Signals Midwest

from the album Latitudes and Longitudes

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Writer's tip: don't use so many adverbs. Savage Garden: Truly, madly, deeply go fuck yourself.
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wrap your ear holes round some new sun run: sunrun.bandcamp.com/album/beโ€ฆ
Beach, by Sun Run

Beach, by Sun Run

4 track album

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frown in the crawlspace
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Myles Straw used Zack Greinkeโ€™s walk up song and got a nice smile out of him ๐Ÿ˜‚
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Today is sextidi 16 Messidor in the year of the Republic CCXXXI, celebrating tobacco.
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made a mad book with a bunch of mad people - got a couple kicking around, get in touch if you're keen
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delighted and honoured to have an attempt to 2D/3D some gertrude stein in the latest @AusPoetry edited by Emily Stewart australianpoetry.org/misc/auโ€ฆ
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heaps of blood, heaps of riffs: sunrun.bandcamp.com/track/leโ€ฆ
Leeches, by Sun Run

Leeches, by Sun Run

from the album Beach

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feeling v honoured to have a poem in Tell Me Like You Mean It 6 โ€“ thanks B, @AusPoetry and @corditepoetry for the opportunity ๐Ÿ’• cordite.org.au/chapbooks-feaโ€ฆ

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learn sleep learn breath learn yellow learn yoshi learn patience learn winding learn keyboard shortcuts learn flower names learn quiet learn talk learn language learn circles learn shadows learn wiโ€ฆ

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