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Is my poetry worse than poetry written by Vogons?
1) no
2) yes, but only just
3) yes, it’s even worse than poetry by the Azgoths of Kria View Results
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Yes, have added a new one, fresh out of the oven, in the left sidebar. I have written it in an extremely impractical style, in typical poetic fashion

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It just so happened that yesterday, as I toiled away at my new ‘work in progress’, I found myself writing a good couple of paragraphs on nasal hair. Later on, I dipped into The Best Australian Poems 2006 and began reading Les Murray’s ‘The Nostril Songs’, quite by chance
Oh happy day! A wonderful example of […]

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If you’re a bit Henry Higginish you’ll love this site. Click on any flag on the globe and hear a person from that place read a paragraph about snow peas and blue cheese. Some of the accents seem to be very mild, particularly the New Zealand accent but I suspect that a lot of people put […]

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We saw This is England on the weekend at the Luna SX, Fremantle. A funny, disturbing, but most of all an interesting movie, especially if, like me, you thought all skinheads were white and spent their days throwing bricks through deli windows. The acting was superb and the music was nifty too.

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Thanks to a new tool called wikiscanner, people can now view the IP addresses of people who edit wikipedia. It lists anonymous edits from ‘interesting organisations’ like the Vatican, the world’s governments, and other organisations. The person who developed it, Virgil Griffith, said he wanted to create ‘a fireworks display of public relations disasters for […]

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I love this album at the moment, in particular track 8 ‘Little Cream Soda’
And there was a time when all I wanted was my
Ice cream colder, and a little cream soda
Oh Well, Oh Well
So simple but meaningful. I love almost all the songs on here: 300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues, Icky Thump, I’m Slowly Turning […]

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Okay, a lot of people love this book. The jacket is covered in plaudits from The Observer, The Times, and The Guardian… if that still doesn’t convince you of its brilliance, the inside of the jacket (front AND back) contain more rave reviews ’startlingly original’, ‘inspirational’, ‘a rare book’, ‘unmissable’… I got up to page […]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU4S2BIqoHY

This still makes me laugh, so it does, to be sure, to be sure

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Yes finally got my copy and have started reading it backwards (the pages not the words). Wot am I on about? ‘The only journal devoted solely to the creative writing of Western Australian writers.’ Yes sandgropers can be avant-garde too, don’t cha know.
Get your copy here folks!
I don’t want to pick any favourites but so […]

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