Category Archives: Music
Black Rider Podcast 02 – Mixed by Alice and Bob
…and then the second installment of the Black Rider podcast, the soundtrack to our nightly readings and bleary-eyed train rides to work. Podcast 02 is mixed by Perth-based Alice & Bob, aka Black Rider poet Chris Arnold. This mix is … Continue reading
The sound of the Black Rider: Mark William Jackson
Download Mark William Jackson and The Minordian performing Beat(en) & Saintly as featured in The Diamond & the Thief, Black Rider Press 2010. You can also stream it at Poetry Speaks or below. Mark William Jackson – Beat(en) & Saintly … Continue reading
I am still in yesterday’s clothes – Issue 7
In space no one reads your zine Tristan Fidler is one cool dude. His whole vibe is perfectly depicted in his zine I am still in yesterday’s clothes. He’s infused it with his awesomeness. Reaching the seventh issue yo(!), theming … Continue reading
Filed under Fiction, Music, Perth, Photography, Published
When we set out to increase our masculinity, we had no guide
Some time ago a micro-ish poem of mine called ‘A two step guide for men to increase their masculinity’ appeared in ‘The Modern Man’ edition of the very cool ‘zine Mother [has words...]. Edited & lovingly created by homme-extraordinaire Scott-Patrick … Continue reading
Huddle round these roadmaps, alas, we’ve outstayed our welcome
This year the Emerging Writers Festival 2010 in Melbourne is going to be slightly more surreal than usual. Yep, the Black Rider’s swooping. Amid a schedule filled with general literary tomfoolery and brazen broohaha, I’ll be: hosting a panel on … Continue reading
Filed under Cottonmouth, Music, Show, Spoken Word
When I think of you I see green: the quiet flood of Amber Fresh
In trying to capture how the illimitable Amber Fresh writes her astral travelling songs I wrote this poem for her mid-2008. Seagreen is one of hers for the ages. Tectonic shift: a word is born
Der Freischütz and the forest of tears
Some time ago I gave a li’l presentation at Perth’s Knowledge Club on Carl Maria von Weber’s German Romantic (with a capital R) opera Der Freischütz. Was it because of the character Samiel, the Black Huntsman? Or was it because … Continue reading
Filed under Music
Point ‘n click at bodies of water
I’ve only ever been credited for taking one photograph. This one: Find it.
Filed under Music, Perth, Photography, Published
