Dave Drayton
@_davedrayton
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reader/writer/drinker of Dr Pepper/bad at dancing but closer to comprehending its gist
Nexus of the universe.
Joined March 2009
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 ๐@_milesfranklin Learn more: https://t.co/EztQDBpjn8
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couple of trips south in the next few weeks come say g'day?
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โQueering Ecopoet(h)icsโ edited by @WilloDrummond & @StuartABarnes is now live! https://t.co/XjY37xT4Sh ๐ Featuring 27 extraordinary poems that showcase a vibrant multiplicity of queer subjectivities & express radical care for our entwined human & more-than-human worlds.
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A Statement from the Board of Overland Literary Journal https://t.co/PuvUM6uX9d
overland.org.au
We, the Board of Overland literary journal, make the following statement in support of Editors-in-chief Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk and the entire Overland staff. We are a diverse Board made up...
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new p(l)antoum in the wild, amongst a tonne of other gems in @corditepoetry 111: Baby, w/ thanks to @shastradeo & Liam Ferney https://t.co/y5qHwKIfE3
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ABR congratulates Dan Hogan (@packetofchips ), the winner of the 2024 Peter Porter Poetry Prize!
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Happy Siggies Day everyone https://t.co/4LvkGvaX8i 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
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Publishing writing from the working class, Industrial Estate is a new print literary journal from Subbed In. Industrial Estate is open for submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Submissions close 31 January 2024. More details and to submit: https://t.co/N5TbVntztz
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Writer's tip: don't use so many adverbs. Savage Garden: Truly, madly, deeply go fuck yourself.
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Myles Straw used Zack Greinkeโs walk up song and got a nice smile out of him ๐
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Today is sextidi 16 Messidor in the year of the Republic CCXXXI, celebrating tobacco.
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made a mad book with a bunch of mad people - got a couple kicking around, get in touch if you're keen
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delighted and honoured to have an attempt to 2D/3D some gertrude stein in the latest @AusPoetry edited by Emily Stewart https://t.co/mbsuufxeYa
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feeling v honoured to have a poem in Tell Me Like You Mean It 6 โ thanks B, @AusPoetry and @corditepoetry for the opportunity ๐
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learn sleep learn breath learn yellow learn yoshi learn patience learn winding learn keyboard shortcuts learn flower names learn quiet learn talk learn language learn circles learn shadows learn wiโฆ
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Beir Bua is folding its wings - there's an explosion of great/weird/experimental poetry you should get your hands on before they do
@_davedrayton absolute made state of British history that this brill @beirbuapress book was published in SEPTEMBER 2022 and it's already missing not one but *two* Prime Ministers! Deffo one to grab before BB shuts its doors @ExBeirBuaPress
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