Quadrant
Film review: The Electrical World of Louis Wain
Poem: Ulysses For Bogans
May 2022
Poet Laureates of Melbourne Anthology
Le Grand Masked Ball of Phantasmagoric Melbourne
Mar 2022
2021 International Songwriting Competition
Semi-Finalist, Mars Orbiter
Feb. 2022
Live Encounters
Poems: And Ever Shall Be, Theatre of War, Green Idyll
Jan 2022
poem: In Repose
Semi-finalist
Dec 2021
Live at Poet House
Exciting, charming and moving collection of songs … well recorded and immediate sounding. Jonathan Edwards
Coming Soon!
Quadrant Reviews
Rick Stein's Cornwall (June 2022), 1883: Sam Eliott's Power of the Dog (July-Aug)
ON MURRAY'S RUN
JOE DOLCE
Selected by
LES MURRAY AO
A poem that draws on country/blues/jazz/folk etc. needs to be partly in those grooves and partly distant from them. In loving conflict with their habits of heart and mind. When you do that well you are ZOWIE! Les Murray AO.
Published by Ginninderra Press
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A living musical genius . . . Bach and Handel will be smiling down on this work. Dr. Lou Gottlieb,(1923-1996) PhD. Musicology, studied under Arnold Schoenberg.
Cements [his] reputation as one of the country's premier songwriters. . . the words fit together like a perfect puzzle. Sue Barrett, Rhythms Magazine
Unforgettable appearance at this year's Festival - certainly the best act I have had on the concert bill in four years of organising the event... people in town are still talking about it. Peter Soley, Henry Lawson Festival
A serious composer, a poet and a terrifying intellectual. Dr Houston Dunleavy, PhD Music Composition, Academic Director of the Australian Guild of Music.
Have a look at some of [his] essays and you’ll notice his knowledge spans across a breadth that is inconceivable for most people. Dr Naomi Stekelenburg, PhD. Literature.
That piece you wrote a few issues ago on Westerns [Yellowstone]... was on a level with the strongest papers I have heard at academic conferences, and I do include overseas scholars giving papers.
This is no exaggeration.' Dr Christopher Heathcote, Art Historian & Cultural Critic.
May 11th, 2022