Ken Bolton
Ken Bolton lives in Adelaide where he manages the Australian Experimental Art Foundation’s Dark Horsey bookshop. His most recent collections are A Whistled Bit Of Bop (Vagabond Press, 2010) and Sly Mongoose (Puncher & Wattmann, 2011). Shearsman (UK) issued his Selected Poems in 2013. He edited Homage to John Forbes (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2002). His art criticism has been collected under the title Art Writing (Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, 2009) and can be read here. (Photograph by Bianca Barling)
Should the unique serve to typify?Have they been ill-used? To what purpose?
Asian Couple
The Asian couple.I am inclined to think Chinese –mostly on the basis of size,but not Japanese (the manmight be bigger, bebetter, less self-effacinglydressed) – maybe notmainland Chin ... (read more)
for Lee Harwood
Softly solarised and paralleltwo lines echo each other, glow slightly,in a space that is nowhere
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What am I going to write here? Something, I hope. A year or so since I last launched out in my usual spot and stopped, because I didn’t want the usual – which after all this time with nothing else happening I miss. I hear a high-pitched scattered voice, look up, & see an image that makes me think ‘I wonder how X is going?’ – someone I haven’t seen for a while – a blond ... (read more)