Barnaby Smith

Aus.sex.death 1 the hovering phone tower whirr finds aliens nightly over the antipodes, coded as cinema & fighting for clicks 2 there is no direction, direction is not. the highway weighs on the mind: freedo…

Poem in the new issue of Cordite, with thanks to editor Emilie Collyer: cordite.org.au/poetry/fit/a...

Yes that's pretty perfect. Can we also identify a certain strand of folk horror as when a certain landscape (rural or wilderness, also often isolated) becomes an almost sentient, living force itself that threatens human occupants and visitors?

Saw Bob Weir's Ratdog for the first and only time at the final version of the tiny festival Canterbury Fayre in Kent in 2003, also on the bill: Arthur Lee and Love, Incredible String Band (Mike H and friends), Roy Harper, Robert Plant, Alasdair Roberts, Buzzcocks. RIP.

Crowded House’s Moodiest Album Is the Subject of a New Book Blending elements of scholarship, criticism and travelogue, Crowded House’s Together Alone is a fresh look at one of Australia’s most beloved bands.

Thanks to @dougwallen.bsky.social for this generous piece for Broadsheet about the Together Alone book: www.broadsheet.com.au/national/ent...

YouTube video by Split Enz Split Enz - Sweet Dreams (Official Video)

Restored version of the video for "Sweet Dreams", a Judd original from Split Enz. An opus that never fails to dazzle me ("seldom wrong but never correct"): www.youtube.com/watch?v=59cR...

YouTube video by Wry Fawkes D'Angelo - Africa (Acoustic outtake)

Sad about a musician again. This demo version of 'Africa' by D'Angelo is just marvellous: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAmm...

Thanks so much Michael! You're too kind.

Penrith’s long NRL reign is over. Even as a Panthers fan, I feel a little relieved | Barnaby Smith The success was dazzling but it became almost awkward. We can now celebrate the achievements and see another team lift the trophy

All things must pass: on Penrith's NRL reign being over, for The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/sport/commen...

RIP Danny Thompson, a kind and lovely man and an unparalleled musician. Fond memory of spending two hours interviewing him about his work with Tim Buckley in a Cafe Nero in Rickmansworth in 2009.

Barnaby Smith Barnaby Smith is a poet, critic, journalist and musician living on Darug and Gundungurra land in New South Wales, Australia. Recent work has appeared in journals or anthologies such as Stand, Blackbox...

Two poems, 'hearing things' and 'Tangiers rumbles', just published by Pamenar Press, with thanks to the editors: www.pamenarpress.com/post/barnaby...
@pamenarpress.bsky.social

"I've been to a town, Del". My favourite Redford film: Jeremiah Johnson (1972).
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Neil Finn signed my 33 1/3 book on Together Alone yesterday, bless him (with thanks to my sister who accosted him with it at the Infinity Sessions gig at Roundhead Studios in Auckland). @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @crowdedhouse.com

Here is an essay I wrote for the journal Axon: Creative Explorations, on music, memory, biography and writing, based on Robyn Hitchcock's 2024 memoir 1967: axonjournal.com.au/issues/15-1/...

Together Alone with Crowded House and talking About Ghosts with Mary Halvorson - ABC listen Brooklyn-based jazz guitarist and composer Mary Halvorson has released a new album About Ghosts. Featuring her long-time improvisatory band Amaryllis, this time she’s also added two saxophonists into ...

I can't bring myself to listen to it but was on The Music Show this morning (20/7/25) talking about the Together Alone book: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Crowded House's Together Alone Intertextual, passionate and personal throughout, Crowded House's Together Alone is a key addition to the surprisingly limited range of scholarship on one of Au…

A new book out about Crowded House Together Alone 🎶🎶

It's available internationally

Credit to Frenz Forum for this I wouldn't know about it otherwise 👍🎶

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/crowded-h...

Crowded House's Together Alone Intertextual, passionate and personal throughout, Crowded House's Together Alone is a key addition to the surprisingly limited range of scholarship on one of Au…

My 33 1/3 on Together Alone is published today in Australia and New Zealand: www.bloomsbury.com/au/crowded-h...

YouTube video by The Beach Boys - Topic Our Prayer (Remastered 2001)

Been fearing waking up to this news for some time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X76e...

At the Edge of the World with Barnaby Smith: Inside the Landscape and Legacy of Crowded House’s 'Together Alone' Barnaby Smith’s deep-dive into Together Alone by Crowded House’s is an exploration of how music and place can become profoundly inseparable.

Did an interview with Happy Mag about my 33 1/3 book on Crowded House's Together Alone, which is out this week in the UK and US, and still a month away in Australia and NZ. With thanks to the editors: happymag.tv/barnaby-smit...

Vol. 27 Ed. 2 -P- Adolescence by Barnaby Smith — Stirring: A Literary Collection

Poem in the recent issue of Stirring, 'Adolescence', with thanks to editors: www.stirringlit.com/vol-27-ed-2-...

Polyp (Vagabond Press) - Plumwood Mountain About a quarter of the way through Ashley Haywood’s Polyp, a poem arrives that provides decisive illumination and clarity regarding the philosophical, ecological and existential questions, and sheer e...

Review of Ashley Haywood's quite stunning debut collection Polyp, for Plumwood Mountain: plumwoodmountain.com/book-review/...
With thanks to editor Amanda Lucas-Frith.

YouTube video by slipperandtherose What a Comforting Thing to Know

You can't celebrate Richard Chamberlain without mentioning The Slipper and the Rose: youtu.be/HKPjyZWr6OQ?...

Windows to the world: a conversation with Glen O’Malley Queenslander Glen O’Malley stands as a key figure among a generation of photographers who depicted the domestic lives of Australians in the 1970s and 1980s. In an interview with Barnaby Smith, he disc...

Interview with influential Queensland photographer Glen O'Malley for Art Guide Australia: artguide.com.au/windows-to-t...

night falls over Yarramundi i can see it now when the roads stiffen on descent to overlook swathes of apparently empty planet the air here is sharply breathed, where the city skyline changes shape & colour to pose new que…

Poem in the new 'Space' issue of Cordite: 'night falls over Yarramundi': cordite.org.au/poetry/space...

'Electric emperor: When Bob Dylan did a Napoleon' by Barnaby Smith he famous backlash against Bob Dylan’s switch to playing electric music in the mid-1960s is often misunderstood. It was not an objection based on musical aesthetics. Folk purists, such as the audience...

My review of A Complete Unknown for Australian Book Review. All hail the mumble: www.australianbookreview.com.au/arts-update/...

Barnaby Smith — ballast

Poem in the new issue of Ballast (@ballastjournal.bsky.social), with thanks to editors: www.ballastjournal.com/barnaby-smith
& a small piece found its way into the Best Australian Poems 2024 volume: newsouthbooks.com.au/books/best-o...

Hi John, I've a couple of contacts out here that may be able to help if these tips don't yield things....

Barnaby Smith — Tentacular Three Poems

Some poems in the new issue of Tentacular, with thanks to the editors. Nice to be among some accomplished names: www.tentacularmag.com/issue-11-c/b...

A few poems for the recent Issue 6 of @rangermagazine.bsky.social : www.rangermagazine.net/smith_issue6