The Outlandish Watch Poetry Project by Pascalle Burton, featuring Nathan Shepherdson, David Stavanger and music by The Stress of Leisure. Available on 7″ vinyl from The Stress of Leisure store and The Outpost Store.… Continue reading
Schmuck Jewellery for TWENTY FIVE SEVENTY FIVE Laser cut wood and mixed materials Inspired by the pieces exhibited in the Scmuckmuseum in Pforzheim, Germany. Pictured: Firma Wehrle & Co Pforzheim circa 1884 Earrings… Continue reading
The video clip for Sex Time – available on 7″ vinyl and on the The Stress of Leisure’s upcoming album. Directed by Sean Young and starring Conor Dowling and Olivia Porter, with expertise from… Continue reading
David Stavanger and Andrew Galan co-edited this dual-jewel issue of Australian Poetry Journal. It includes a print version and a playlist of selected pieces. Both include my poem in the beginning without end, which is written after Julia Kristeva’s… Continue reading
My poem The evolution of her pictorial — after the extraordinary artist Liliane Lijn — has been shortlisted for the David Harold Tribe Poetry Award, alongside heavy-hitters Geraldine Burrowes, Michael Farrell, Grace Heyer, Ella O’Keefe and Ali Jane Smith. Thanks… Continue reading
I’ll be doing my last poetry reading for the year at the double-launch event of Candy Royalle‘s A trillion tiny awakenings & Australian Poetry Journal 8.2 at the Bloodhound Bar on Sunday 9 December… Continue reading
I’ll be participating in a couple of events at this year’s Asia Pacific Writers & Translators conference, directed by Sanaz Fotouhi and running from 5–7 December. The full program can be found here,… Continue reading
I normally use this blog to write about things coming up in the future. But I was so busy touring with Regurgitator and so on that I forgot to do posts for some… Continue reading
The incredible Custard recently released their new album called The Band (Live In The Basement), through ABC Music. Henry Brister recorded the show on the 9th November, 2017 at The Basement in Sydney, where The… Continue reading
My track After the After Party, 1979 is included in Derek Beaulieu’s limited edition CD (drowned out by traffic noise): a, A Novel, created in collaboration with Alan Dunn, and also featuring Cecilie Bjørgås Jordheim… Continue reading
(Photo credit above to Katherine O’Malley) So the Regurgitator ‘Life Support’ tour has concluded. What a thrill to see the ‘Gurge play! Their latest album HEADROXX is as good as any of their… Continue reading
As part of my small run of poetry readings in support of my collection About the Author is Dead (available through Cordite Books), I will be a part of the Queensland Writers Centre Literary Salon with Alice… Continue reading
I will be doing a small run of poetry readings over May, June and July in support of my collection, About the Author is Dead, which is out through Cordite Books. The first is… Continue reading
After touring with Custard last year in support of their latest album The Common Touch, The Stress of Leisure is set to do it all again for their North Queensland tour. We’ll be… Continue reading
My debut collection About the Author is Dead is now available to purchase from Cordite Publishing (and soon to be available in North America from Small Press Distribution). Warmest thanks to Kent MacCarter for… Continue reading
The Stress of Leisure came in at number 7 in the 4ZZZ Hot 100 on New Years Day for the song I Wanna Be Adult! We are grateful for the support of our vital… Continue reading
Here is The Stress of Leisure’s video for Pulled Pork, the opening track on Eruption Bounce. It’s the second single from the album, following I Wanna Be Adult. This video springs from the warped mind of Ian… Continue reading
24 Hour Gym will present the songs of 24 Hour Gym Volume 1 at 5pm, Thursday 7 December at the Poetry and the Essay conference at the Victoria University of Wellington’s Poetry and the Essay… Continue reading
I have five poems included in the Queensland chapter of Australian Book Review’s second series of States of Poetry, edited by Felicity Plunkett: stones sequence sucked (after Samuel Beckett’s Molloy) a less tangible currency (after The New… Continue reading
We’ve launched our album Eruption Bounce (out through Plus One Records) and we’ve been playing a bunch of shows to celebrate: Sunday 1 October w/ Moody Beach and The Gametes @ The Foundry, Brisbane Saturday… Continue reading
As part of the Brisbane Writers Festival, I will be taking part in The Fanciful Fiction Auxiliary on Saturday 9 September at 7pm in the Top Shelf bar (right beside the State Library of… Continue reading
Here is The Stress of Leisure’s video for I Wanna Be Adult, which is fashioned after the hit television show Come Dine with Me. It’s the first single from our upcoming album, Eruption Bounce. With Phil… Continue reading
The Stress of Leisure will be supporting Japan’s Shonen Knife when they play The Zoo on Thursday 21 September. Also supporting is I Heart Hiroshima.
My piece ‘Generation Loss (after Alvin Lucier)’ has been shortlisted for the QUT Digital Literature Award, alongside works by Mez Breeze, Jason Nelson, David Thomas Henry Wright with Karen Lowry and Julia Lane, and Marianna… Continue reading
I’ll be doing a couple of Leonard Cohen poems for the Travelling Light: Leonard Cohen Tribute at Queensland Poetry Festival on Thursday, August 24 at 8:30pm. There is a stellar line-up of LC fans, including Ben Salter, Ben… Continue reading
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The eighth issue of the zine Today, the voice you speak with may not be your own is available and…
Simon Munro‘s Borrowed Verse project, bringing poets and songwriters together, is working to get an album out through pozible – check out the rewards and consider backing it: https://pozible.com/project/borrowed-verse-poetry-in-song. There are wonderful people… Continue reading
