Dave Drayton

reader/writer/drinker of Dr Pepper/bad at dancing but closer to comprehending its gist

[Hachette Australia Books @HachetteAus]

We are thrilled to share that the enchanting, atmospheric novel #StrangersAtThePort by Lauren Aimee Curtis has been longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Awards 2024 🎉@_milesfranklin

Learn more: https://t.co/EztQDBpjn8

[Dave Drayton @_davedrayton]

couple of trips south in the next few weeks
come say g'day?

[Dave Drayton @_davedrayton]

@StuartABarnes @corditepoetry @shastradeo thanks Stu!

the p(l)antoum's are getting me out of my comfort zone, and greening my thumb a little haha

[Dave Drayton @_davedrayton]

new p(l)antoum in the wild, amongst a tonne of other gems in @corditepoetry 111: Baby, w/ thanks to @shastradeo & Liam Ferney
https://t.co/y5qHwKIfE3

[PlumwoodMountain @plmwdmountain]

‘Queering Ecopoet(h)ics’ edited by @WilloDrummond & @StuartABarnes is now live!

https://t.co/XjY37xT4Sh 🌈

Featuring 27 extraordinary poems that showcase a vibrant multiplicity of queer subjectivities & express radical care for our entwined human & more-than-human worlds.

[Dave Drayton @_davedrayton]

two geniuses with seeds of a ceramic menagerie

[Chris Woods 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @tophermwoods]

An unspeakably beautiful @OverlandJournal cover today by Sofia Sabbagh ❤️🇵🇸

[Overland Journal @OverlandJournal]

A Statement from the Board of Overland Literary Journal

https://t.co/PuvUM6uX9d

[Dave Drayton @_davedrayton]

@COOLHOTZOE very good

[Australian Book Review @AustBookReview]

ABR congratulates Dan Hogan (@packetofchips ), the winner of the 2024 Peter Porter Poetry Prize!

[Signals Midwest @SignalsMidwest]

Happy Siggies Day everyone

https://t.co/4LvkGvaX8i

fun fact: wrote the progression, then wrote it backwards in order, played it along with the recording (sounded very wrong), flipped the audio around, got it first try. not new idea by any means, but felt magical when it worked

[𝕴𝖓𝖘𝖎𝖉𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕮𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖑𝖊 @incastellated]

Writer's tip: don't use so many adverbs.
Savage Garden: Truly, madly, deeply go fuck yourself.

[Dave Drayton @_davedrayton]

wrap your ear holes round some new sun run: https://t.co/JTYvIAPfoO

[Dave Drayton @_davedrayton]

frown in the crawlspace

[Jomboy Media @JomboyMedia]

Myles Straw used Zack Greinke’s walk up song and got a nice smile out of him 😂

[Republican Calendar @sansculotides]

Today is sextidi 16 Messidor in the year of the Republic CCXXXI, celebrating tobacco.

[Dave Drayton @_davedrayton]

made a mad book with a bunch of mad people - got a couple kicking around, get in touch if you're keen

[Dave Drayton @_davedrayton]

delighted and honoured to have an attempt to 2D/3D some gertrude stein in the latest @AusPoetry edited by Emily Stewart https://t.co/mbsuufxeYa

[Dave Drayton @_davedrayton]

heaps of blood, heaps of riffs: https://t.co/L15XfzBYEQ

[rory @rorydoinstuff]

feeling v honoured to have a poem in Tell Me Like You Mean It 6 – thanks B, @AusPoetry and @corditepoetry for the opportunity 💕 https://t.co/aX2xLvlC5D