LINKS

Follow the recent adventures of GDS commissioned Comic Artist <Oslo Davis>

<IndieFeed Performance Poetry> Poets, can you get any cooler. Created and presented by Mongo, this IndieFeed channel serves up regular works from the best spoken word artists out there today. GDS has been joining in, presenting some of our fave Australians.

<Falcon vs Monkey> is home to Literary Magazine Torpedo walking the streets of Melbourne and beyond. The man behind the wheel is Chris Flynn, whose short story Sunburns I Have Known and Loved featured in GDS No.29.

 We heart <adbusters>, the Journal of the mental environment.

The <Comic Lifestyle> of our commissioned comic artist Jo Waite.

 In case you missed the small print on the home page, our cover artist for Issue No. 28 was the talented <Stephen Ives>.

<The Other Voices International Project>  Inspired by 1 Giant Leap, aims to unite the voices of a troubled world through poetry. A huge collection of works in this simple and ambitious cyber-anthology, it's a gentle ride and an inspiring one.

<Adam Ford> is a Jumping Castle specialist whose film The Battle of Clarendon Streetis featured on our homepage for your viewing pleasure. He also drives the super cool cadillac that is Monkey Punch Dinosaur. <http://monkeypunchdinosaur.blogspot.com/>

<Picnick> is an artist who always packs a full hamper. He's pen and inked our very first mini graphic novella in GDS27.

< BLU> This guy's the total package, the real deal, the coldest part of the fridge. White collar suicidal ideas to die for, settle in for MUTO, the best public art work seen in decades. Click. Now.

<Anthony Lister>. This guy makes damn good art.

< Cordite Poetry Review> is our favourite imaginary friend. Australia's premier exclusive poetry e-journal. essays, reviews, rants and, of course poems. They are also doing a feature on spoken word in GDS27.

<We like to play Throw Rocks At Boys >

<Book Slam> is London's "literary nightclub", the brainchild of Ben Watt (Everything But The Girl) and Patrick Neate. Their intention was simple: create a regular literary event in London that doesn't make sane people want to stab themselves with rusty cutlery.

<Tarpaulin Sky> publishes new work both online and in print, often curated by guest-editors. They do hand-bound, paperback and onscreen. Every base is covered.

< Check out the new forms of fiction at Dreaming Methods>

<A network of all things wordy at Words Magazine>, including competitions with cash prizes.

< Some poets in WA hang at the Poets Corner >

<Dumbfoundry> Poetry news, poetry blogs, poetry magazines, poetry journals, poetry sites, poetry links... there seems to be a pattern developing here...

<Cry Bloxsome > has a new novel out this year.

<Snorkel> is an online literary Mag featuring Aussies and Kiwis.

<Trout> is an online publishing house for New Zealand and Pacific Islands literature

<Mad Hatters Review> is an online multimedia magazine staffed solely by mad hatters. obviously kindred spirits. We share deadlines and artists. Larissa Shmailo has an audio feature in their latest issue, and is also published on the CD of GDS27. snap.

<Diagram > is an arresting electronic text and art journal from the USA - both simple and complex at the same time - beautiful.

<Slope > is slick and publishes poetry with an international focus.

<Thylazine> is edited by coral hull, focussing on australian poetry about landscape and animals. also features an in-progress index of australian poets.

<McSweeney's> is top notch independent publishing. If you ever thought that a sense of humour and literature weren't close friends, mcsweeney's will prove you wrong.

<The Prose Poem > dedicated exclusively to the somewhat inscrutable form of the prose poem, with links to resources and essays about prose poetry

<Jacket> John Tranter's online literary journal. He's grumpy about the time it takes to produce this fine journal, but he keeps on releasing new issues, bless him.

< Electronic Writing Research Ensemble > the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide runs this impressive hypertextual site.

<The Barcelona Review> wonderful multi-lingual review publishing fiction and reviews in English, Spanish and Catalan. archives of previous stories are great too.

<Elimae > don't pretend you understand everything here, but enjoy trying. superior poetry and essays, some content obtuse, but keep digging. where else will you find reviews of Chaucer written in Old English?

<Bookmunch> reviews on new books of all stripes, written in a style best described as "witty armchair pundit". check Heroes & Villains section for rants on individual writers.

<Drunken Boat > poetry, fiction, reviews and web art that doesn't suck. the experimental writing and visual arts on drunken boat are always of high standard. floats my boat.

<Meanjin> home on the web of the well-known journal of literature, art and criticism

<Mudlark> publishing poetry in three formats: issues (electronic chapbooks), posters (electronic broadsheets) and flash poems, responding to current news.

<Heat> dipping its toe in more adventurous waters recently. Ivor Indyk launched version2 of Heat in June 2001 also runs his press, Giramondo, from this site. Emma Lew's new book of verse Everything the Landlord Touches, is recommended.

<Island> tasmanian journal of poetry, prose and essays. home to the gwen harwood poetry prize.

<Nerve> excellent literary smut

<Riding the Meridian > if only all hypertextual writing was this good.

<Alt-X> virtual imprints, theory, and the Electronic Book Review.

<Papertiger> Queensland-centric, but with an eye to the international.

<Overland> thinking person's crumpet. left-leaning, acerbic. critical essays always worth reading.

<Poems That Go > Nothing since 2004, but definitely worth a looksee if you're into poetic animation.

<exquisite corpse> crazy, boundary-pushing fiction and poetry with no sense of squeam.

<Pretend Paper> - new and groovy online artist community, magaziney, thingy.

<Voiceworks> if you're under 25 and looking to get published, this is for you.

<Vibewire> slick non-profit org. site aimed at young guns, but old fogies feel pretty welcome. lots of zine and comics reviews, taken seriously, oh joy oh rapture.

<Jim Woodring> is Woodring scary or sexy? maybe he's both. follow Frank and Pupshaw around for a day and make up your own mind.

<Scott McCloud> the author of Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics demonstrates how the Internet has changed the way comics work.

<Untitled.gif> GI Jesus! Inspector Fuckup! The Pink Thing! this strip is the max!

<I S O M E T R I C> cubic shenanigans.

<Dave Cooper> the freaky inside of Dave Cooper's head, creator of Weasel and various other viscous comic stories.

<Artbabe > Jessica Abel is an old-school practitioner whose explorations of content do her much justice.

<Red Meat> from the Secret Files of Max Cannon. perverse 1950s-style clip art strip. get ready to shudder.

<Nowhere Girl> brilliant coming-of-age story.

<Roald Dahl Museum> ... mmmm, chocolate doors...

<The Paris Review > - generous! Archived interviews with literary genii (ie, genius, plural) in full, and audio readings that download without too much faffing about and actually play right through to the end. Right on.

<Poetry Magazine > - Neat. As in, you know, tidy. Reviews of American poetry publications.

<The 1000 Journals Project> 1000 journals are travelling from hand to hand throughout the world. If one of them lands in your hands you're asked to add stories, drawings, and then pass the journal along. A strangely compelling global diary.

<Poetry Daily > is what you might think - a new poem every day popping up online. But there's more - there's poet profiles, book reviews, articles... no, just one poem a day isn't enough.

<The Morning News > not a penguin but home to some of the funniest column writing online. Surreal links, cocky op.ed. from non-experts, journalism as capricious beast.

<Arts & Letters Daily> the great gleaner of news, reviews and all things literary. lots of gossip too. indispensible.

<web del sol > "locus of the new literary art" - a voluminous resorce of writing and journals on the web.

<tomas ford's cabaret of death> Tomas Ford = charismatic, freewheeling punk electronic cabaret rock poet dude from WA.

<antipoet> he's into werds, packets and text image.

<Brisbane Writers Festival > If you are craving writers this one's a goody.

<Diary of Samuel Pepys> Ye olde blog. Sourced from expurgated diaries but beautifully cross-referenced. pass the hock.

<Sydney PEN> There are PEN offices and networks around the country, but the Sydney website is currently the most reliable. PEN of course is an international association of writers, and it exists to promote mutual understanding and world culture - mainly, to speak up on behalf of writers who are harassed, imprisoned, sometimes killed, for their views. In Australia, PEN is working hard for writers in detention. Joining doesn't cost you much and it does make a difference to what they can do.

<Australian Literature Resources> Good stop for all writers and poets.

<The Academy of American Poets> Everything you ever wanted to know about American poetry, then and now, but just didn't know you wanted to ask. With map.

<The AA Independent Press Guide> a free online writers resource, listing over 2000 magazines and publishers and 700 internet magazines - it's a messy ride in there, but you'll find things to do if you have a strong stomach for vibrant font colours.

<The Alliance of Artists' Communities > dreaming of the ideal residency? hook up with this amazing list of bequests, residencies and trusts, almost none of which specify nationality in their eligibility criteria.

<Geekgirl > hive of information for events from conferences to dance parties.

<Poets & Writers> despite naff and obvious name, features excellent articles and fiction, plus amazing classifieds. trawl at own risk, but if you have thought about submitting online, start here.

<The Devil's Dictionary> Ambrose Bierce's savage A-Z online. Trangressive satire.

<Banished > words, phrases and hackneyed bon mots that are so exhausted they deserve retirement. shoot the television and burn the newspapers - anything to escape turgid, lazy journalism.

<Visual Thesaurus > meme sprouting ideas. plumb beautiful. beats a dip in boring old Roget's anytime.