I am finally playing shows in Australia for the first time, and it’s all the sweeter to be doing so in support of The Verlaines and their new album Untimely Mediations. Sydney band Crow will be joining us too.

In other news, ‘Poetry and Experience’ by Archibald Macleish might be the best book about something I’ve ever read. Given it’s long out of print there is not a single interesting or useful  link I can find on it, so instead: Macleish also wrote this great little poem that, thankfully,  transcends such terms as (gulp) “meta”.