Really Good In Theory (Adelaide)

Paroxysm Press will again be selling launch-price wares at this great bastion of DIY – alongside music and printed words from others such as EC Productions, A Perfect Gentleman, Rhizome, Smashed, Fucken Stoner, Ink Black Books, Analogue Apocalypse, Feminista, Ex-A-Sketch, Jazz From Hell and Ministry of Zines.

Saturday 31st May, Irish Club, 13-15 Carrington St, Adelaide from midday, free entry.

Then stay on for the live music, from 7pm, $8 entry.
Avant Gardeners, Cities Roamed By Cannibals, The Family Hour, No Through Road, The Monies, Jon Dale, Cameron Wood & Kynan Lawlor.

2.
AND remember submissions for “Ten Years Of Things That Didn’t Kill Us” close at the end of May. People who have sent in work will start to here back from us soon PLUS news on the various dates lined up for (in order of appearance) – Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney and Newcastle.

Paroxysm Press publisher Daniel Watson will appear at the May Wordfire, reading the story “My Brother’s Keeper” – his contribution to the ‘Blood’ anthology (Sunday Drivers Press) – the eighth highest selling book at the 2007 Melbourne Writers’ Festival.

Paroxysm will also be using the occasion to record the appearance of the up and comer poet / spoken word performer Rob Parry.

The next Wordfire salon will be held on Monday 5th May 2008.
As usual the venue will be the Red Room, Crown & Sceptre, 308 King William Street, Adelaide. 7.00pm for 7.30pm.

Headlining the gig will be Nicholas Jose (Paper Nautilus).

Also appearing:
Rachel Hennessy (The Quakers)
A.M. Sladdin (S.A. runner up, National Poetry Slam 07)
And Cathoel Jorss

From the mailing list of Hard Boiled:

Thurs April 17
7:30 for an 8 start @ La Boheme (36 Grote St)
A multiple zine launch!! 4 Zines launched from high art to loud offensive music & films.
$4 gets you 2 of the 4 zines launched, value if there ever was such a thing!
2 DJs playing tracks, both creators of 2 of the zines launched.

What zines launched:
Feminista
Sprak!
Analog Apocalypse
Corrupt Me!

Thurs April 24th
7:30 for a 8 start @ La Boheme (36 Grote St)
Free entry, open mic, raffle & raffle prizes, the best reader gets the raffle money!!!
The nite will be recorded so you might get on a live cd to prove to all that you do read & write good poetry!
So come along to read your best works, or heckle to add to the live feel.

So all of you, come to at least one to support the local scene

After a brilliant Adelaide launch at Hard Boiled sore heads have been rested and its time for the boys hometown launch of their anthology of short stories:

Croak & Grist – Shane Jesse Christmass and Hop Dac.
Saturday 1st March, 2pm
Collected Works Bookshop
1 / 37 Swanston St, Melbourne
(03) 9654 8873

Collected Works has been a big supporter of Paroxysm for years and it’ll be a great venue for a Saturday afternoon. This top-shelf book of short stories is already selling well in Melbourne even before it’s launched so this should be a good one.

I’ll be flying into Melbourne that day to introduce the readings from Hop and Shane but then leaving for Adelaide the same day as Sunday the 2nd marks the start of Adelaide Writers Week. Keep an eye out for Paroxysm products at the book selling tent at this six day event.

A quick reminder people Shane Jesse Christmass and Hop Dac wing their way into Adelaide for the long awaited launch of Croak & Grist. Copies of the book will be available for $15 on the night (usually $20) plus pick up a copy of the two Paroxysm anthologies these boys have appeared in: Shotgun – $15 (usually $18) and Waste – $15 (usually $16).

Thursday Feburary 14th .
Hard Boiled @ La Boheme, 36 Grote St,
Free entry
7:30 for an 8pm start
(DON’T BE LATE as the launch is up first before the open mic)

- – - – -

And for those of you in Melbourne waiting for your Croak & Grist launch – in the meantime why not get down to the launch of :

Exit Wounds from Heather Taylor-Johnson – a book filled with poems on birth & death.
Feb 15th, Wesley Anne on High St in Northcote, 8:30.

You’ll probably already know Heather from the ever popular Fingers & Tongues.

Adelaide crew – sorry but Heathers launch here has already been and gone.

Finally its here – the Adelaide launch of the long awaited collection of short stories, Croak & Grist. With the books authors Shane Jesse Christmass and Hop Dac coming all the way from Melbourne for this reading it really is a must see. So Adelaide crew get down to the next Hard Boiled sessions to see and hear live these two top shelf Paroxysm writers. Both guys should be familiar to you, having previously appeared in both Waste and Shotgun.

Thursday Feburary 14th .
Hard Boiled @ La Boheme, 36 Grote St,
Free entry
7:30 for an 8pm start
(so be on time to catch the readings as the launch is up first)
Then stay on for the open mic where the best poet on the night gets the cash.

CROAK & GRIST:
Read with caution. Croak & Grist is a psychotic collection of work from two thoroughbreds of the Paroxysm Press stable. The stories are host to paranoia, schizophrenia, illusion, delusion, mysticism, love and redemption, themes that are excruciatingly extracted, and transmitted in such an unflinching manner that they may cause a contamination in the mind.

Stay tuned for details of the Melbourne launch.

DEMO REMINDER:
See you all at the launch of the Paroxysm Radio-Demo #2 this Friday the 26^th from 8pm, SA Writers Centre, 187 Rundle St.

And also across this weekend:

HARD BOILED TONIGHT:
Hard Boiled; poetry/spoken word sessions
At La Boheme, 36 Grote St Thurs Oct 25th, 730 for a 8 start
Raffle; booze/books/boobyprize
Best poet on the nite gets the raffle money!! Bring yer friends to vote.
Open mic only, free entry

In conjunction, the launch of SA’s premier lit zine; Beer Swill Romanticism,
copies of the zine sell for $2.

UNLEY SLAM:

Calling all poets and voice artists! Unley Libraries, as part of the Parks Alive celebration, are holding a poetry slam/competition, with cash prizes. The slam will be held on Sunday 28 October at 3pm on the Unley Village Green (next to Council Offices and behind the Museum, Rugby St Unley). To register, or for further information please contact the Unly Civic Library on 8372 5100.

1. Paroxysm Radio Demo #2

For the best, slickest and most depraved spoken word in town get to the launch of the Paroxysm Press Radio Demo #2, recorded live at the Melbourne vs Adelaide poetry slam. Eight great Paroxysm classics including Kami’s “Technically I’m a Criminal”, Kerryn Tredrea’s “He Says He’ll Call and Unfortunately He Does” and Daniel Watson’s “Substance Abuse”. Be at the SA Writers Centre, 187 Rundle Street on Friday the 26th Oct from 8pm. Entry is free.

2. And don’t forget people the SA slam final is upon us:

Tuesday the 16th of Oct.
SA State Final, Australian Poetry Slam – State Library of SA (Treasures Wall), North Terrace, 7.30pm
Daniel Watson (MC) with a special appearance from Peter Goldsworthy (poet and chairman of the Libraries Board of SA).
At last the South Australian final of the first Australian Poetry Slam is here. After ten heats we have our twenty finalists ready to battle it out for a place in the nationals in Sydney. Spoken word, poetry, hip-hop – it’s all allowed as long as they can blast it out within the two minutes they have to impress the judges. This may just be the strongest line-up in a spoken word event in the states history – be sure not to miss it.

Hey Paroxysm people in Adelaide -

If you’ve got nothing on today head down to

“She Said What?” a Zine / Trade fair focusing on independent female artists @ Urtext (level 2, 14 Grenfell St) from 12pm. Tons of great things for sale including the full Paroxysm range plus a spoken word set from Kerryn Tredrea and others between 2:30 and 3pm

AND – Croak & Grist (Shane Jesse Christmass and Hop Dac) is at the Printers!!!
Keep an ear out for launch news on this one.

PLUS full details coming soon of the launch of the Paroxysm Radio Demo #2 – Friday 26th of October at the SA Writers Centre.

Shit gotta run – I’m supposed to be down there by now!

cheers