With Spring, comes a fascinating review, a new issue, and a special installation event celebrating 10 years of spoken word CDs from the House of Swinging.
We have just dispatched No.29 to the printers - this time around, including a special spoken word CD recorded entirely at this years' Overload Poetry Festival. Stay tuned right here for news on the November launches.
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As we await the arrival of the boxes, we've been busy working with the Anode2009 festival in Melbourne and Sydney, to present a special spoken word installation:
The Unguarded Word: Listening Rooms at Anode2009
Since 1999 GDS has produced some 12 CDs: in other words, some 900 minutes of the story in audio, from five continents! From the first CD issue produced by Alicia Sometimes, Steve Grimwade, Anna Hedigan and Adam Ford, Going Down Swinging took its place as one of only a handful of journals on the planet anthologising spoken word, and since then we've published some of the finest voices around.
So, to celebrate a decade of innovation, we invite you into our listening lounges in Melbourne and Sydney. Lay back and immerse yourself in a world of aural poetry and storytelling drawn from a decade of sounds and stories! Here's the detail:
MELBOURNE - INSTALLATION OPEN DAILY
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Saturday 31st October - Monday 8th November
Between 8am - 8pm weekdays & 11am - 8pm weekends
Venue: 1000 £ Bend - 361 Lt Lonsdale St Melbourne
Free entry before 5pm daily
SYDNEY - INSTALLATION OPEN DAILY
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Friday 20th November - Monday 23rd November
Between 3pm - 8pm daily
Venue: Walter Burley Griffin Incinerator - Forsyth St Glebe, Sydney
Free entry
Anode2009 is a season of art events connecting independent, local and experimental artists in unique spaces across Sydney and Melbourne from 30th October to 5th December 2009. For more: anode2009.com
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In other news, Cordite Poetry Review - one of our favourite online journals of the moment - has just announced a new Audio section. It's a great new space for spoken word, curated by Emilie Zoey Baker. In 3.0 Custom/Made you can also find a review of GDS No.28 and WA journal Indigo, by Bridie McCarthy: check it out here
Until next time, see you on the couches, and keep your ears open for news on our launches next month!