CURRENT EVENTS

INZUPARRE IL BISCOTTO and GREEN-EYED BOY OF THE RAIN published in BEST OF QUADRANT POETRY 2001 -2010, edited by LES MURRAY, March 2012

LEMONRICKS published in MEANJIN, March 2012

Photograph: GOANNA-BOOT-THIEF selected for BLUNDSTONE AUSTRALIA international promotions 2012

 Stepdaughter published in JOURNEY:Experiences With Breast Cancer Feb 2012. website

QUADRANT MAGAZINE

Thirty-five poems including eighteen new song-lyrics selected by poet/editor LES MURRAY.

Essay: Biblical Imagery in the Songwriting of Creative Infidels: Bob Dylan, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen and Paul Kelly Jan-Feb 2012

Essay: Hey Mr Cowbell Man: Dylan & Ricks Mar 2012

3 new essays: Jikan: Leonard Cohen: Poet Laureate of Songwriters, Anti the Anti, and In the Op Shop with Percy Grainger. Coming mid-2012

Starvation Box Blues chosen by PETER MINTER for OVERLAND LITERARY JOURNAL mid-2012

Poem: ITALIAN INCENSE and photograph: LEAF FINGERNAIL POLISH published inVINE LEAVES # 2, April 2012

ETCHINGS 10: The Feminine Issue

Photograph: LIN published in April 2012

ETCHINGS 11: Three Chords and the Truth

3 lyrics: Coretta, Dominique and Death of Bach selected for publication. June 2012

 

Upcoming

2012 MILDURA WRITERS FESTIVAL

John Wolseley, Anna Goldsworthy, Joe Dolce, Chloe Hooper, Robert Gray, Don Watson, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Evelyn Jeurs, Peter Robb, Liz Moore, Morag Fraser, Les Murray, Barry Hill, Drusilla Modjeska, and others

songpoetry performance at festival dinner

Sat July 21st

TERMINALIA and FOURTH SHORE
selected for Carmenta II mid-2012.

Snakebite and Moonlight chosen for DIVAN 8 mid-2012

Catholic Dea selected for Italian Essays published by Connorcourt mid-2012.

‘Wry and wicked, Joe Dolce’s Hatbox is a magician’s box of poetic tricks.He can charm like an Italianate C. J. Dennis, then, as in his poem Bogong Moth, poetically “seize fire” yet “continue to swoop.”’ Jen Jewel Brown

First Signed and Numbered Edition
Website

New Recording

MR Q

(first published as poetry in QUADRANT)- from Vibedeck

 

 

THE WIND CRIES MARY CD

"(The Wind Cries Mary) cements Dolce's reputation
as one of the country's premier songwriters. . .
the words fit together like a perfect puzzle . ."
RHYTHMS

" 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 living musical genius . . . Bach and Handel will be smiling down on this work. . .'
Dr. Lou Gottlieb,(1923-1996) PhD. Musicology, studied under Arnold Schoenberg, member of The Sonoma Bach Choir and founding member and bass player of the legendary US folk group, The Limelighters.