October 11, 2008

Ubud Writers’ & Readers’ Festival

I’m leaving tonight for for a week in Bali (and yes, on work!), to attend the Ubud Writers’ & Readers’ Festival 2008.
Other than general official engagements and anything that happens impromptu, my readings and panels, in case you’re there, are as follows:
Thursday 16 Oct: Performance Poetry Extravaganza, 19.30-21.30 at Warung Opera
Top performers and comedians from [...]

October 11, 2008

The Venus Flytrap: Piracy, Privacy, Popularity and Poetry

It’s not every day that one finds oneself as a subject of a social experiment. At the risk of being frozen out of polite poetic society, I have to admit: I felt just a mite gleeful at having my identity misappropriated for inclusion in a 4000-page pdf anthology of pirated poetry.
The idea was simple: collect [...]