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
The Stress of Leisure is excited to be playing with Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds again for the Brisbane show of their Australian Tour. Come to The Zoo on Saturday 27… Continue reading
Over the past few years, David Stavanger and I – under the editorial pseudonym Vacant Dragon à la Subverted Lips – have had the enormous pleasure of collaborating with around fifty artists (poets,… Continue reading
I’m looking forward to being the MC at Anna Jacobson‘s Brisbane launch for her latest poetry collection Anxious in a Sweet Store (Upswell) at Avid Reader on Saturday 9 September, 3pm. You can… Continue reading
August is Poetry Month and Red Room Poetry has a packed schedule – both irl and online – to celebrate all things poetry and community. I’m looking forward to being a part of… Continue reading
The Stress of Leisure is helping to celebrate Sonic Masala’s 10th birthday at the Triffid on August 12. We’ve loved being a part of Sonic Masala Fest over the past decade, either as… Continue reading
The Stress of Leisure will help celebrate local-legend-of-the-music-scene Paul Curtis’ birthday by playing his 60 Years of Damaged Goods show at Felons Barrel Hall on Saturday 29 July. The lineup is stellar, and… Continue reading
I’ll be involved in various events at this year’s Brisbane Writers Festival, held from 10–14 May at the State Library of Queensland. Admissions: Voices with Mental Health is a panel at 2:30pm on… Continue reading
I’m looking forward to being a part of this year’s Queensland Poetry Festival, which will be held in Meanjin/Brisbane between Thursday 20 to Saturday 22 April at the State Library of Queensland. Besides… Continue reading
This is the beautiful Admissions: Voices within Mental Health anthology from Upswell Publishing (edited with care by David Stavanger, Radhiah Chowdhury and Mohammad Awad). It is guaranteed to move you! Order the book here. I was… Continue reading
Look at this thing of beauty: the ART issue of Rabbit Poetry Journal! Three of my keyboard performance visual poems were selected by guest editors Leah Muddle and Angela Gardner. The poems I… Continue reading
Three of my keyboard performance visual poems are included in the special Digital Realism issue of TEXT Journal, with thanks to editors David Thomas Henry Wright, Shastra Deo and Chris Arnold. Access it… Continue reading
Last year, the avant-garde composer Alvin Lucier passed away. I am doubly grateful, then, that my 2016 piece Generation Loss (after Alvin Lucier) – first commissioned by Bella Li for Cordite Publishing Inc.‘s… Continue reading
The Stress of Leisure will be playing with Regurgitator and Screamfeeder at The Princess Theatre over two nights, on Thursday 19 May and Friday 20 May. It’s a night to pay tribute to… Continue reading
I will be participating in two events at this year’s Brisbane Writers Festival, which marks its 60th anniversary. On Tuesday 3 May, 5pm at Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library of Queensland, I… Continue reading
The Stress of Leisure is looking forward to celebrating the life of Meg Welchman, a shining soul in the Brisbane music community and bassist for The Double Happiness. She embodied the essence of… Continue reading
The Stress of Leisure is looking forward to playing Chardons Corner Hotel’s The Back Room on Saturday 20 November as part of the epic Bandemic Fest. Bands include Pale Horsey, Mutanteer, Le Fricken… Continue reading
I’ve been invited to run an experimental constraint-driven poetry writing workshop called Crafting Words at Avid Reader Bookshop on Sunday 24 October 2021. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about poets who… Continue reading
I would love to be appearing in person at the Prague Microfestival, which runs from October 8–10, but a video will have to do this year. I’ll be participating in a video reading… Continue reading
October is shaping up to be a busy month for poetry. As a starter, I will be a part of Queensland poetry’s Volta at the Brisbane Square Library on Friday 1 October, 6pm,… Continue reading
e is fortunate to be playing a live gig (fingers crossed). We are helping Ben Ely celebrate his new album The Golden Path at The Zoo on Friday 10 September. Jerm will also be playing.
The Stress of Leisure has been fortunate to release our album Faux Wave despite the global pandemic and we will be launching it on Thursday 19 November at Lefty’s Music Hall. Tickets are… Continue reading
I have two poems included in Issue 11 of Minarets (as part of Chris Holdaway’s Compound Press), which was edited by the amazing Pam Brown (read her editorial here). Both poems experiment with… Continue reading
I have two poems included in this special pandemic-themed issue of Guesthouse, which was guest co-edited by the incredible Diane Seuss (read her introduction here). The first piece is Every Day, Fingertips, a keyboard… Continue reading
My poem you are turned a someone, which is an internet performance of Paul Celan’s Streak (hover over the lines to get my gist) has been included in Cordite 96: NO THEME IX… Continue reading
