My son Matt invited me to see a Hiptones “Cobra” performance at the Wheatsheaf last night when I told him about the Max_Mo work I’d been doing with Derek Pascoe. It was my first experience of Cobra and I loved it. It seems like Cobra is to music as TheatreSports is to drama. And the Keith Johstone of Cobra is Zorn. Anyway, it’s quite exciting watching talented musicians (Stephen Whittington – Prompter & misc instruments, Derek Pascoe – Tenor saxophone, Chris Martin – Piano, Hilary Kleinig – Cello, Adam Ritchie – Guitar/Laptop & Jarrad Payne- Drums ) virtually composing as they play and leaving space for the others. Like TheatreSports, the real skill seems to lie in accepting others’ offers, rather than trying to be the prima donna. It was great to see Hilary who told me that on Sunday at the same venue Zephyr Quartet had actually played Belinda Gehlert’s dunes, which was based on my poem dunes: perlubie beach. Funny place, Adelaide!

"Origin" by Martina Angela Müller

I’m very gratified to have work published in the US literary magazine Cortland Review. The Review, which includes poetry, short fiction and reviews, is published solely online out of Cortland, New York and includes recorded audio versions (read by the poets themselves.)
The Darkening Eucalyptic is an homage (in title only) to the great Ern Malley. It was written a couple of years back when I was experimenting with block-text and run-on sentences as poetry. At the time it seemed to be a factual poem about cutting up a tree. Looking back, it seems to be another poem about death.
It’s a strange thing, but often I don’t discover the underlying meaning of my poems until years later.
I share publication in Issue 44 of this fine journal with Julia Alter, Kurt Brown, Alex Dimitrov, Gregory Lawless, Austin MacRae, Kirby Olson, Simon Perchik, Marvyn Petrucci, Dan Veach, Ryan Vine, Hilde Weisert, Marjory Wentworth, Ross White, Michael Wynn, Haley Carrollhach, Mariko Nagai, an interview with Dan Brown by David M. Katz and David Rigsbee’s book review of “Divine Comedy: Journeys through a Regional Geography, Three New Works” by John Kinsella.