Intuition Kingdom

Wednesday, 17th August

6.30-8.30pm

a night of music, poetry, conversation

& improvised performance

with

Darren DC Cross

floating chords, stolen cars, faraway eyes

Mark Mordue

inner west, T-Rex, dream talk

Felicity Plunkett

sylvia plath, seas of love, red history

Ali Whitelock

charles bukowski, coke cans, Scottish wild

Event will be held inside

‘The Beatnik Cathedral’ (Hut 8)

straight down the road on your left

after you enter the main gates of…

Addi Road Community Centre

142 Addison Road, Marrickville

Entry: $10

Free: students / unemployed

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WHO THEY ARE, WERE, MIGHT BE...

some background on the performers

Darren "D.C" Cross (Gerling, Jep and Dep) is an Australian guitarist and storyteller. Cross’ music is inspired by the 1960’s and 1970’s mainstays of American and British acoustic guitar (John Fahey, Roy Harper, Leo Kottke, Elizabeth Cotton, Nick Drake, Bert Jansch) but he is consciously forging his own musical identity within an Australian landscape. Cross has just released his third solo D.C Cross album Hot-wire the Lay-low (Australian Escapist pieces for guitar) which was written in and inspired by rural N.S.W.

Mark Mordue is a writer, editor, journalist and poet. He is the author of the biography Boy on Fire – The Young Nick Cave (HarperCollins Australia, 2020). He has also published the poetry collection Darlinghurst Funeral Rites (Transit Lounge, 2018) and the travel memoir Dastgah: Diary of a Headtrip (Allen and Unwin, 2001). He is the winner of a 1992 Human Rights Media Award and the 2010 Pascall Prize: Australian Critic of the Year. His novel There’s No Telling will be published in 2023; with the second volume of his Nick Cave biography project to follow in 2024. His work cuts across New Journalism, poetry and memoir, sometimes all at once. www.electrifiiedjournalist.com

Felicity Plunkett is an award-winning poet and critic. Her poetry collections are Vanishing Point (UQP, 2009), Seastrands (Vagabond, 2011) and A Kinder Sea (UQP, 2020). Felicity was Poetry Editor with University of Queensland Press for nine years and edited the anthology Thirty Australian Poets (UQP, 2011). She has a PhD from the University of Sydney and is a regular reviewer and essayist. Her latest essay is ‘Plath Traps’, published by Sydney Review of Books.

Ali Whitelock’s latest poetry collection, ‘the lactic acid in the calves of your despair’ is published by Wakefield Press and her debut collection, ‘and my heart crumples like a coke can’ (also Wakefield Press) has a forthcoming UK edition by Polygon, Edinburgh. Her memoir, ‘poking seaweed with a stick & running away from the smell’ was launched to critical acclaim in Australia and the UK in 2009. She has appeared & read at festivals & events in Australia, Ireland & Scotland including The Edinburgh Fringe in 2018 & 2019. www.aliwhitelock.com