May 2008
7 posts
“He’s given her a lecture when all he wanted to do  was follow the white bobs of her tail disappearing into the scarlet flowers.” Tails are terribly distracting things, but Peter Henry Lepus is a rabbit with other ideas. He’s the bright-eyed protagonist of the poems of JS Harry, whom Peter Porter calls Australia’s “most arresting” poet. And this year,...
May 25th
May 25th
Other lives: Laura Scrivano →
Where humanity is just a word in the dictionary and a jacaranda tree can make dreams come true… PUNCHUP PRESS’ Laura Scrivano is directing an exciting new production of A View of Concrete, by Melbourne playwright Gareth Ellis, part of the B Sharp season at Belvoir St Theatre from November 5. Check out her blog about creating the ‘alternate reality’ of the play at...
May 25th
EDITING
Rebecca: I can’t believe I didn’t use any punctuation. What was I thinking? Mark: … Sounds like someone has a case of the 2002’s.  Long Story Short: The Abridged Memoirs of RJ Stuart & Mark Drew, May 2008, purchased at yesterday’s Zine Fair at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Cover price $2.00.
May 25th
“I once played the part of a fighter mouse in the Nutcracker.”
– says PUNCHUP PRESS’ Frances Simmons. It was the 1980s and the city of Albury wasn’t ready for Frances’ style of fighting. Ballet’s loss is our gain. 
May 25th
May 25th
May 25th