Dave Drayton

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 🎉@_milesfranklin Learn more: perpetual.com.au/insights/perpe…

couple of trips south in the next few weeks come say g'day?

@StuartABarnes @corditepoetry @shastradeo thanks Stu! the p(l)antoum's are getting me out of my comfort zone, and greening my thumb a little haha

@_davedrayton @corditepoetry @shastradeo brilliant dave! (‘Rivers I’d’ / ‘River-side’ 😍)

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/poetry…

‘Queering Ecopoet(h)ics’ edited by @WilloDrummond & @StuartABarnes is now live! bit.ly/3UgFmy6 🌈 Featuring 27 extraordinary poems that showcase a vibrant multiplicity of queer subjectivities & express radical care for our entwined human & more-than-human worlds.

two geniuses with seeds of a ceramic menagerie

An unspeakably beautiful @OverlandJournal cover today by Sofia Sabbagh ❤️🇵🇸

A Statement from the Board of Overland Literary Journal overland.org.au/2024/02/statem…

@COOLHOTZOE very good

ABR congratulates Dan Hogan (@packetofchips ), the winner of the 2024 Peter Porter Poetry Prize!

Happy Siggies Day everyone signalsmidwest.bandcamp.com/track/january-… 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

Writer's tip: don't use so many adverbs. Savage Garden: Truly, madly, deeply go fuck yourself.

wrap your ear holes round some new sun run: sunrun.bandcamp.com/album/beach-ep

frown in the crawlspace

Myles Straw used Zack Greinke’s walk up song and got a nice smile out of him 😂

Today is sextidi 16 Messidor in the year of the Republic CCXXXI, celebrating tobacco.

made a mad book with a bunch of mad people - got a couple kicking around, get in touch if you're keen

delighted and honoured to have an attempt to 2D/3D some gertrude stein in the latest @AusPoetry edited by Emily Stewart australianpoetry.org/misc/australia…

heaps of blood, heaps of riffs: sunrun.bandcamp.com/track/leeches

feeling v honoured to have a poem in Tell Me Like You Mean It 6 – thanks B, @AusPoetry and @corditepoetry for the opportunity 💕 cordite.org.au/chapbooks-feat…