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 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
‘The times are now interesting enough for Interesting Times’ — Jane Elliott, 2020 The Stress of Leisure has released a single for the times, called Interesting Times. We recorded this song during the… Continue reading
I was invited by the magnificent Renee Vaughan Sutherland to respond to our strange pandemic times for her excellent Greater Than 11% project blog. I generated the poem FOUND-19 based on the first… Continue reading
The brilliant people at SOd press have published (pressing on), which is my keyboard performance of Pam Brown’s excellent (pressure’s on). You can read an online version of (pressure’s on) at Compound Press‘s… Continue reading
The Stress of Leisure is playing at The Tivoli on Sunday 27 October as part of Regurgitator’s weekend-long 25th birthday celebrations, The Quarter Pounder Tour. Starting at 3pm, the line-up also features Shonen… Continue reading
My poem The evolution of her pictorial — after the wonderful artist Liliane Lijn — has been published in Southerly Journal issue 78.3 along with the other poems shortlisted for the David Harold Tribe poetry… Continue reading
Looking forward to Byron Writers Festival and being a part of the Solid Air Spoken Word Showcase satellite event on Friday 2nd August at Byron Theatre to launch University of Queensland Press‘s spoken word anthology Solid… Continue reading
My book About the Author is Dead has been shortlisted for the 2019 Mary Gilmore Award for best first book of poetry, alongside Lindsay Tuggle, Holly Friedlander Liddicoat, Eunice Andrada, Marjon Mossammaparast and… Continue reading
The Stress of Leisure loves WHALEHOUSE. Zoe, Amy-Rose and Sonya put on a raucous show and we will be supporting them (along with Perve Endings) for the launch of their new single The Bug… Continue reading
My GIF poem a poem floats (after Sigalit Landau’s DeadSee) is now up on PHOTODUST and will never (ever) end.
Thanks to Red Room Poetry and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, I’ve had the best time preparing poetic responses to the work of Marcel Duchamp for Punch Lines: Poets Play Duchamp at the Sydney Writers’… Continue reading
Greater Than 11% is presented by Renee Vaughan Sutherland, a London-based filmmaker and artist, and explores roles and opportunities for women within the creative industries. The weekly podcast interviews women about their careers and… Continue reading
Madonna Staunton’s A Selected Survey:1964–2019 at Milani Gallery is stunning and will show until 30 March. To celebrate, at 4pm on Saturday 16 March, Josh Milani, Nathan Shepherdson, Anna Jacobson and I will be… Continue reading
