tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85551145216243562302024-03-12T18:01:46.951-07:00Little Glass PenThe poetry of Amanda Joy.Amanda Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-16620981947134286462014-09-17T17:55:00.001-07:002014-09-17T17:57:58.794-07:00Snake Like Charms<h3>
Brown Snake, North Lake</h3>
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Amanda Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-83826428335500078462014-09-15T19:58:00.003-07:002014-09-15T20:39:59.033-07:00Snake Like Charms<h3>
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Snake Skin, Roe Swamp</span></b></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">Shedding skin of
a snake, will <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">loosen first at
the lips, retract <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">backward over
bluing eyes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">dull crown,
those sorcerous jaws<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">Resistance is
needed, seeking<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">friction of
rock, chafe of grass<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">scour and scrub
of brown balga<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">It braces its
body and slides out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">Slipped fishnet
of bubblewrap<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">mingled with a
streaky mandala <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">of divested
paperbark, becomes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">my discovery,
being its past<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">I tease open a
brittle end, puzzle <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">my arm inside,
until it is sheathed <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">to the elbow,
ghost eyes puckering <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">my skin. My
pulse its unsealed centre <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">Vestiture of
rain spittle in my hair<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">A cool trickle
slides inside my collar <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">I tear the
delicate mesh pulling it off<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">in what becomes
a deluge<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">God of
fragmentation, refusing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">to keep things
whole, coming <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">to me later.
Showing again <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">that repetition
might simply be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<h3><b>Darwin's Orchid</b></h3>Single molecule<br />
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The chapbook is out now and fabulous through mulla mulla press; click here -><a href="http://mullamullapress.com/orchid-poems">Orchid Poems</a><br />
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<i>Amanda Joy’s ability to locate the marvellous </i><br />
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<i>gorgeous music. These orchid poems are </i><br />
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<i>Amanda Joy's new book is a series of fine </i><br />
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<i>each poem draws energy from a particular </i><br />
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<i>static electricity between form and flower </i><br />
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<i>These poems are as intriguing as their </i><br />
<i>subjects, delicate survivors, traced by a poet </i><br />
<i>alive with the wonder of her vision. </i><br />
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<i>We are travellers in this enchanted world of </i><br />
<i>orchidry, where poems are tropisms, leading </i><br />
<i>us through the chambers of desire. Joy’s </i><br />
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<i>inner experience from a masculine plant — a </i><br />
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<i>charged botany, and interior voyages of the </i><br />
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AND... if you're in Queensland, or feel like a trip to Queensland, I'm very excited to be reading at the Queensland Poetry Festival along with some amazing poets..like..... <br />
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Sandra Thibodeaux / Sawako Nakayasu / Jacob Polley / Zenobia Frost / Kate Fagan / Helen Avery / Paul Sherman / Ross Clark / Julie Beveridge / Ashley Capes / John Koenig / Carmen Keates / Cindy Keong / Tim Sinclair / Chloe Wilson / Pascalle Burton / Nathan Shepherdson / David Stavanger / Ghostboy / Johanna Featherstone / Matt Hetherington / Jeremy Thompson / Angela Gardner / Louise Oxley / Lesley Synge / Max Ryan / Ron Pretty / Jaya Savige / Aidan Coleman / Kevin Gillam / Andy White / Marisa Allen / Eliza Hull / Eleanor Jackson / Bit Booker / Nick Powell / Vladislav Nekliaev / Michelle Dicinoski / Chris Lynch / Betsy Turcot / Nicola Scholes / Sheish MoneyAmanda Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-19118238897663901552011-06-22T00:55:00.000-07:002011-06-23T18:48:29.996-07:00Rhizanthella Gardner<span style="font-style:italic;">The sensuous signs offer us a new structure<br />of time, time rediscovered at the heart of lost <br />time itself, as an image of eternity</span><br />~Deleuze<br /><br />Sequestered in earth, invisible flowering<br />truffled to fungus in wet dark. Sniff past<br />the ground, see past the crack in the soil<br />incise with fingertips the parted dirt, to find<br />the threatened orchid, sessile and yawning<br />breath like honey<br /><br />He rolls away from her and the smell of them<br />puffs from the sublayer of sheets, meeting places<br />of bodies, wet and sticky shrink back in the quiet<br />away from the heat, sound sinks deep into <br />their inner ears<br /><br />These hours are torn from their timeline, her heart<br />from its shape, her bare hands from their image<br />She is speaking inside herself and each word<br />burns long enough to clothe his back in what<br />she can't contain<br /><br />Slow speed of night moving into the unseen<br />deadline of morning like a tongue into a mouth<br />stroking languageAmanda Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-92030476163232637862011-06-13T18:54:00.001-07:002012-05-20T02:21:30.844-07:00Bucket OrchidLabyrinthine flower<br />
of courtship, and its<br />
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Looking into its throat<br />
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an eye, or a hand, like<br />
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Disappointment only<br />
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The return visit-<br />
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see.'</span> Closes her eyesAmanda Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-5686488260391239072011-05-13T20:06:00.000-07:002011-05-13T20:21:48.274-07:00Sandal of Aphrodite Orchid<span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-style:italic;">"Looking at the bag-shaped labellum<br />of the Paphiopedilum gave me the notion that<br />it had been left here by some kind of alien"</span><br />~Takashi Kijima, photographer, author of Orchids<br /></span><br /><br />Follow the italic slope<br />of his <span style="font-style:italic;">refined constellation</span>, his <br /><span style="font-style:italic;">vulgar nebula</span>, his search for<br />the <span style="font-style:italic;">insect-like space man</span><br /><br />Be guided by colour<br />By the scarlet veins at the <br />throat, where it falls open<br />Measure all things against<br />the length of your thumb<br /><br />and when you want to<br />know who's been loving<br /><br />check between the fibres<br />of Aphrodite's doormatAmanda Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-42562746646633261312011-05-09T21:19:00.000-07:002011-05-09T22:06:56.901-07:00Man Orchid<span style="font-style:italic;">Be thou opened</span><br /><br />Labellum resembling torso<br />and limbs, head of petals<br />Simplest accuracy<br /><br />outside<br />roar of leaves and her<br />dog doesn't bark anymore<br />knowing his smell, sound<br />of his step<br /><br />Cluster-like inflorescence<br />he sees their feet under<br />the sheet, watches the <br />half-buried churnings<br /><br />His lust is pungent and she<br />can smell him through<br />the closed window, telepathy<br />of scent, layered at the mouth<br /><br />soft tongued and accurate<br />wired into the word-roots<br />Orchis Anthropophora<br />aequitasAmanda Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-26404973012730212011-05-09T21:16:00.000-07:002011-05-09T21:17:50.647-07:00NeofinetiasCorruption,<br />to think its smell<br />makes the air heavyAmanda Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-5947954100237818262011-05-09T19:48:00.000-07:002011-05-09T21:40:56.782-07:00Lizard Orchid<span style="font-style:italic;">The flower is disguised<br />as a lizard diving headfirst into<br />itself</span><br /><br /><br />The hunters have travelled<br />ten miles inland with a hundred<br />thousand invisible seeds attached <br />to their trousers <br /><br />Sometimes, believing themselves<br />to be set upon by an unseen enemy<br />they fill their clay pots with sticky<br />harvest, walk further into<br />the forest they do not know<br /><br />Unseen movement becomes<br />sound pulled closer, sound to<br />the hunter an idea in alphabet<br /><br />Eyes to detail in the humus<br />they stumble past the goatish<br />odour of their preyAmanda Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-20364397896481025642011-05-06T19:23:00.000-07:002011-05-06T19:40:50.438-07:00Ghost Orchid<span style="font-style:italic;">In 1882 the orchid hunter Roebelin awoke<br />to find the ladder to his tree house gone.<br />He lay on his back looking at flowers of lilac <br />and cinnamon through the hole in his roof.</span><br /><br /><br />Moon's ingress into Cancer<br />Shiva toenail against indigo<br />with dandruff stars<br /><br />He comes back quietly to the house<br />He thinks he hears her eyelids open<br />Puts his hand on the place near his<br />stomach where he imagines <br />forgetting starts, stops<br />an out breath<br /><br />The room is a dense garden of her <br />smell, soon he will have to say <br />something, soon she will reach<br />from under the blanket for his<br />hand<br /><br />Lovers of the lovers whisper agitato<br />in their sleep somewhere past<br /><br />Slick twinned legs of the Ghost<br />Orchid, still one with root and<br />nectar spur, tongued by moths<br />who won't strive to<br />outlive themselvesAmanda Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-37210194663463927202011-05-05T23:34:00.000-07:002011-05-06T00:43:40.911-07:00Early Purple Orchid( <span style="font-style:italic;">But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them</span> )<br /><br /><br />Unsure new lover grins<br />and name after name is lost<br />from her open mouth<br /><br />Rooted in clean air of<br />the moon theatre<br />Ruined epiphyte<br /><br />Is it how she unmakes the <br />bed? how she undresses<br />in the cold<br /><br />Mimicry of wasp <br />and spider<br />Lost calling<br /><br />She almost<br />holds his hand, almost<br />pulls back his hair<br />in her fist<br /><br />Snarl deep-<br />throated aggregate<br />can't incant blue<br />exile in darkness<br /><br />Her body is full<br />of empty chambers<br />trailing fingertips<br /><br />maggot death stench<br />steeped in warm goat's milk<br />to make philtre<br /><br />Barely touched becomes<br />whisperAmanda Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-37145822446474694742011-04-13T22:47:00.000-07:002011-04-13T22:57:28.809-07:00Blue Butcher Orchid<span style="font-style:italic;">for Miss Jane's birthday</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Inking the fingers<br /></span>dialect and echo<br />Blue Butcher of tongue<br />peeled from its industry<br /> from roof of mouth<br />to reluctant curls<br />turned slightly left, new<br /> implication in Orchis<br />sepal to petal<br />cupped calyx, funnelled<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">modified into a lip</span>Amanda Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-46799858085234950302011-04-03T18:47:00.000-07:002011-04-03T18:50:56.116-07:00A Thoughtwide as lightning<br />bodies of the lovers<br />skin sloughed off<br />and still rubbingAmanda Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-56072063383913219092011-03-25T08:44:00.000-07:002011-04-22T23:06:35.307-07:00Sleeping BeautyThat whole time<br />she slept <br /><br />all those years <br />amongst overgrowth <br />in ivory<br /><br />They pounded <br />on her door<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />*There's some more of these over at now! --> <a href="http://heroinlovesongs1.wordpress.com/">heroin love songs</a>Amanda Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-4980997472489884002011-02-17T04:33:00.000-08:002011-02-17T15:04:15.695-08:00Chapbook Review. Paul Harrison's meet me at gethsemane<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oUzllHV3ZOM/TV0W_w5yFNI/AAAAAAAAAFA/LhkbwSZEUFo/s1600/PAULHARRISON_MMAG.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oUzllHV3ZOM/TV0W_w5yFNI/AAAAAAAAAFA/LhkbwSZEUFo/s400/PAULHARRISON_MMAG.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574637198469371090" /></a><br />I had made a rule for myself that this blog would be a simple little repository for my poetry, with a little aside from time to time, but I’ve decided bend it a little and share my thoughts on some things that catch my attention.<br /><br />I was asked to write a blurb for Paul Harrison’s first chapbook “meet me at gethsemane” But I’ve enjoyed reading it so much I have decided to share a short review of it here.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">meet me at gethsemane</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Paul Harrison is at times the propagandist of his own opinions and maybe that’s just the anti-venom needed to take on the irresistible allure of blind faith. He doesn’t test a statement for truth, there’s no hesitation or disguised plea for corroboration in these poems. Self-consciousness is stripped away then returns to dance in your lap.<br /><br />later she says<br />you know doll<br />you’re not<br />supposed<br />to touch<br />& i smile<br />& say<br />i didn’t know<br />but really<br />i knew<br />exactly<br />& all along<br />what went down<br />& what it was<br />i did to her<br />& you<br /><br /> ~from “doll” <br /><br />Simple language, natural as speech serves as a vehicle for a psychologically dynamic exploration of absurd social rituals and sensation.<br /><br />The givens of life are what they are, often enough our lives are a dark and obscure mission. These poems, with their blunt, claustrophobic lines and lack of artifice, stark paralysis pressed against the stasis of the page are life affirming, they bring us into a direct encounter with lacerating relationships which layer rather than expose. They invite us to celebrate and grieve our shared isolation and the failure of responsibility. <br /><br />the grown-ups<br />taught us kids<br />property rights<br />are based<br />on violence<br /><br />~from “watching another ad for fridge and washer city”<br /><br />Even the literary references, though many, are pared down, splayed and pinned to the page. <br /><br />and of course<br />a rose is a rose<br />impossible<br />to overlook<br />or fathom <br /><br />~‘all at sea’ <br /><br /><br />Someone pointed out to me recently, the Latin origins of passion stem from passio ; to suffer, to endure. compassion being, to endure with. The delusion that the creative act is somehow redemptive excludes. This collection showcases the irreparable, it encourages trust because it doesn’t try to hide its purposes.<br />What did Jesus meet at Gethsemane? a final test of faith, prayer, the first consent of divine love, or a torturous death, an empty tomb and three screaming women running in terror? No god, no loyal followers, but leaving “mark lost in the forest” to invite us all to walk in his teacher’s shoes? <br /><br />Paul wants us to meet him in Gethsemane, I might have resisted if it weren’t for the pleasure I take in the final poem in the book, all four words;<br /><br />rothko<br />painted<br />empty<br />graves<br /><br />Then, there is this, from “some things are known” which I think sums ‘it’ up quite nicely. <br /><br />having lived fourteen thousand times longer than<br />the flies that congregate around this lake<br />cannot be remembered or numbered<br />only repeated<br />cannot be described or shared<br />only encountered<br /><br />~Brilliant! I’m there, with bells on.<br /><br />Go get yourself a copy from the most excellent and quite new Mulla Mulla Press here; <a href="http://www.mullamullapress.com/books">Mulla Mulla Press</a>Amanda Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-8870422478538459342011-02-06T08:15:00.000-08:002011-02-06T08:38:11.050-08:00ArchitectureAlways the animal <br />in her, unable to find a room<br />long enough to get a bit of speed up<br />in.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />And something here: clickety link <a href="http://jeremybalius.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/black-rider-presents-the-diamond-and-the-thief-january-11-edition/">The Diamond and The Thief</a>Amanda Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-5888031269083976382011-02-01T02:58:00.001-08:002011-02-01T03:01:19.749-08:00Gimme Shelter<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pMYA-hsvhBA/TUfnpx_wr4I/AAAAAAAAAEs/du4nShuxUBw/s1600/gimmeposter.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pMYA-hsvhBA/TUfnpx_wr4I/AAAAAAAAAEs/du4nShuxUBw/s400/gimmeposter.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568674169248329602" /></a><br />Gimme Shelter is a not-for-profit event with every cent from ticket sales going directly to feed and nurture the homeless. Tickets are dirt-cheap at $25 + booking fee in advance, $35 on the door from www.heatseeker.com.au, The Fremantle Arts Centre and usual outlets. Under 16’s are $10 and kids under 6 are free. Gates open at 5.30pm.<br /><br />Also performing is Brave and the Bird. And who are Brave and the Bird? Gimme Shelter organisers are remaining tight-lipped on this one. “We can’t tell you for legal reasons”, said event organiser Phoebe Corke. “All I can say is it’s a couple of big name performers, we’re very excited and the crowd is going to go wild when they see who it is.”<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I hope if you're in Perth you come along to this! (oh & and I know who Brave and The Bird are ;P na nah nah nah naaaah! )Amanda Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-12661694655823758482010-11-28T22:45:00.000-08:002010-12-15T02:11:57.634-08:00Pop This Date in The Diary or on The Back of Your Hand or.... anywhoos it's December 17!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pMYA-hsvhBA/TPNM55jN54I/AAAAAAAAAEg/kBHVyngoYFA/s1600/In%2BHand%2B%2528Cover%2529.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 313px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pMYA-hsvhBA/TPNM55jN54I/AAAAAAAAAEg/kBHVyngoYFA/s400/In%2BHand%2B%2528Cover%2529.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5544860123807999874" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Come celebrate the launch/arrival/release of In Hand, my book of poetry. 7:30pm, December 17 @ The Fringe Gallery, 94 Bawdan st, Willagee.<br /></span><br />To be launched by Dr Andrew Burke, with readings from ze book by the dapper & strange, Black Rider himself, Jeremy Balius and the sky snapping, word mistress of Recoil, Coral Carter and music by the wildly delicious Kissin' Cousins! Bring your dancing slippers... and a poem to share!<br /><br />Some blurbs ..s.... s<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Amanda Joy's In Hand is a sustained love letter, a farewell signature in a handwritten flourish. It is a celebration of the body, of loss and acceptance, family, water and landscape. These poems work their spells in language cast under pressure into a sublime, lyrical whole. ~Anthony Lawrence<br /><br /><br />The poetry of Amanda Joy stretches out to touch the reader both physically and spiritually. Her words penetrate to the heart and soul of relationships, opening to the naked eye not only those we have with lovers, friends and strangers, but that which we have with the natural world that surrounds us. Then deeper still, to the relationship between our own thoughts, needs and desires.<br />In Hand has a devotional quality. Each poem an experience, to be carried with us and contemplated throughout the day; each poem a flower of mystery, whose petals await their revelatory blossoming.<br />~Ray Sapienza, Moongaze Publishing, editor of Fragile Arts Press, author of Tumbled Streams <br /><br /><br />‘In Hand’, by Australian writer Amanda Joy, offers much in a diverse selection of poems. These are poems of love, desire, longing and language as experienced in these and other states. The common trope these days of the body as language is nevertheless used in many vivid and quite extraordinary poems.<br />Any reader who engages with Joy's poems will find many such subtle constructions, courage to confront the real, or the mysterious, and the general adventure of life and language. Knowledge and sometimes some ‘difficulty’ in this writing, thus enhances a life lived - but a life revealed in subtle ideas, and vivid images and sharp details, and as language, lived intensely. ~Richard Taylor, Conversations With a Stone <br /><br /><br />Amanda Joy's writing conveys perfect fragility as she tells of a world where beauty is temporary and to be held reverently for the moment it exists<br />~ Victoria Fotios, Sunday Morning Spiders</span>Amanda Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-35876010547067224802010-10-31T07:48:00.000-07:002010-10-31T07:58:13.143-07:00Tesselates (verb)<span style="font-style:italic;">“fists have many forms” ~Margaret Atwood<br /></span><br />She has become the hollow room<br />of this house with its black throat<br /><br />Her hands are holding <br />a porcelain cup<br /><br />I’ll use this truth later, but here,<br />this stealing is done with <br />fingers, even ones holding <br />keys of doors<br /><br />still<br />this is a borrowing, I will<br />borrow your hands, I will<br />place them<br />on<br />my chest, I will <br />be the wanky fucker <br />who discerns<br /><br />my own enjambment, I will <br />strip the face off<br />this poem<br /><br />until <br />it bleeds gently <br />into this<br /><br />patient tongue <br />of sea lapping smooth the rocks, <br />gulping down <br />the swimmers who can’t <br /><br /><SWIMAmanda Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-77147110141179509912010-07-12T05:36:00.000-07:002010-07-12T05:47:09.503-07:00Haiga @ The Fringe Gallery<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pMYA-hsvhBA/TDsOxxkV0pI/AAAAAAAAAD4/JXmUuvz5izk/s1600/Powerstation(ropes).jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pMYA-hsvhBA/TDsOxxkV0pI/AAAAAAAAAD4/JXmUuvz5izk/s400/Powerstation(ropes).jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493000418790593170" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pMYA-hsvhBA/TDsMkZyLTZI/AAAAAAAAADw/HjaXfP0y-Ts/s1600/Alongside+Silence.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pMYA-hsvhBA/TDsMkZyLTZI/AAAAAAAAADw/HjaXfP0y-Ts/s400/Alongside+Silence.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492997990044618130" /></a>Amanda Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-20427286512140440312010-06-16T19:23:00.000-07:002010-06-16T19:32:13.709-07:00Sunday 20th JuneCya here~<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pMYA-hsvhBA/TBmHpkJrnlI/AAAAAAAAADo/ifMsJ_eqK08/s1600/459finalweb.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pMYA-hsvhBA/TBmHpkJrnlI/AAAAAAAAADo/ifMsJ_eqK08/s400/459finalweb.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483563169448959570" /></a><br /><br />and if you're looking for some awesome poetry looksy here; <a href="http://grahamnunn.wordpress.com/2010/06/06/stylus-poetry-journal-37-streetlife/ ">Stylus Poetry Journal, Street/Life Issue edited by Graham Nunn </a><br /><br /><br />and I'll be posting some new poetry in here over the next week or so too.Amanda Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-80055262563798209032010-03-23T22:56:00.000-07:002011-01-11T18:49:30.543-08:00EtymologyFairy tales were <br />what I read before <br />sleep in her house<br />From a huge book, left <br />near the bed<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">The more people I tell<br />the more I seem to show<br /></span><br />We visit Wave Rock and<br />Mulka’s Cave with its<br />handprints and story<br />of a cross-eyed birth<br />and devoured children<br /><br />I want a word<br />for this place <br />in my stomach <br />behind where <br />tiny feet will press <br />beneath my ribs<br /><br />some ganglia, twisted<br />spaghetti of nerves<br />apparently<br /><br />You eat scones with <br />your parents, at the kiosk<br />Tiny waterholes, writhing <br />with baby frogs<br />pocket the rock<br /><br />I scoop some out <br />Smell of dead ones<br />makes me retch,<br />alone, I get scared<br />walk back<br /><br />Overlooked, the ants<br />Mulka was left to<br />once he was speared<br />to death<br /><br />Words are words<br />We leave <br />with a tshirt<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />If you're anywhere near Brisbane --> <a href="http://grahamnunn.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/speedpoets-feature-poem-3-amanda-joy/">Speedpoets</a>Amanda Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-73588241250769634112010-03-10T21:12:00.000-08:002010-03-11T03:36:36.923-08:00StayingOn her knees again<br />changing his dressings<br />My Grandmother’s<br />sunlit hands over <br />a wound that <br />never healed<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Seven months and<br />still not showing</span><br /><br />Why I’m here-<br />This growing inside me<br />drawing me toward<br />the women and their <br />understanding<br /><br />They’re staying <br />home, watching <br />A Country Practice<br />leafing through old Bride<br />magazines<br />and its not cliché<br />it’s just what they do<br /><br />I’m still going <br />out with the boys<br />in the utes, in my jeans<br />with their guns<br />and beer<br />It’s what they do<br /><br />I think of the soft bones<br />The ones that aren’t <br />mine, hardening inside <br />my body, half-baked<br />bun in the oven<br /><br />Your Mother is showing<br />me how to make cookies<br />for the men to take out<br />I want to be good<br />company<br /><br />I want to know<br />about babies from women <br />who’ve had them<br /><br />Which hidden parts <br />of us dilate, darken <br />or tearAmanda Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-37389245518471960682010-03-08T17:38:00.000-08:002010-03-10T22:23:45.523-08:00ChambersIn my grandmother’s house<br />was a ginger cat, too fat <br />to walk, which no one admitted <br />ever feeding<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Seven months and <br />still not showing</span><br /><br />I have to shuffle my feet<br />through the soft lolling bodies<br />to bang on the roof, stop.<br />I can feel blood and fur<br />drying on my ankles as <br />I get out of the tray to piss<br /><br />In the graded paddock<br />there’s nowhere to hide<br /><br />I hear the returned focus as <br />behind me the torches catch <br />another set of eyes, sharp<br />cracks and ricochet fracture <br />the hard night <br /><br />A cat, feral, screaming<br />now, sharpening <br />the air with pain <br />now and the boys <br />are laughing as I walk <br />back <br /><br />Your face pale and <br />tight as the moon<br />I grab your gun<br /> <br />push past the boys elbowing <br />each other proudly and aim <br />at its head <br /><br />As it slumps, the silence<br />releases us. You’re smiling <br />at your Dad, who’s jumping <br />around like a shot <br />rabbit- J<span style="font-style:italic;">eez she can shoot<br />-My lad knocked up<br />a good one. </span><br /><br />For what it means, <br />I grew up with gunsAmanda Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-52731129717160693952010-03-07T03:17:00.000-08:002010-03-10T22:24:08.202-08:00MatryoshkaAlways on <br />my grandmother’s<br />bedroom wall, a picture<br />of a boy and a girl<br />climbing a tree<br />to a nest,<br /> and now<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Seven months and<br />still not showing</span><br /><br />but, riding on the back <br />of the ute I’m feeling the weight<br />of the baby with every bump<br />hard on my bladder<br /><br />The empty quiet <br />immense in the trees<br />circles us <br /><br />The boys are shooting<br />rabbits. One, hit, backflips <br />about a metre into the air<br />and your father stands <br />in front of me grinning<br />His brown fingers slip quickly<br />into the limp body,<br />tiny but deep<br /><br />They slide in and draw out<br />a glistening mass of pink<br />shapes, tied in a clump<br />Holds them out <br />toward me<br /><br />The fresh, simple presence<br />of the dead mother <br />in his other hand<br /><br />He laughs and says- I reckon <br /><span style="font-style:italic;">you’ll</span> give us this many<br />-good thing <br />not all at once eh?<br /><br /><br /><br />and there's another here > <a href=" http://grahamnunn.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/another-lost-shark-hits-the-street/">Another Lost Shark</a> and if you keep following the links you'll find more :)Amanda Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.com22