Andrew Franks
Hullo!
Welcome and a happy Mid-2025 to everyone.
Hot on the heels of Lisdexamfetamine Blues - a ridiculously ltd edition pamphlet style collection of poems released by Soul Bay early 2025. Soul Bay Press have confirmed that the print version of Cºuntrycide will finally be unleashed this year.
Two studio recorded versions of Cºuntrycide are now available via BANDCAMP - Both feature vocals by Myself, Jenny Douglas (of Toque) & Melissa McLeod. One has music by Blaubac and the other by Jenny & I. Both are also available on YouTube & Apple Music.
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In addition, The Last Sunbathers have launched a brand new EP 1234! and it is out on Apple, Spotify and You Tube. We are also about to release a very limited edition vinyl album 'Albion Hotel' but for those more digitally minded, here it is. Albion Hotel.
The Butterfly House album is still available to buy here and of course in the meantime you can pick up a copy of 'Sunflower eclipse over Troia Nova' from the SBP website... here!
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And finally, with the upcoming cricket series between Australia and England at the end of the year I am bracing myself for a flurry of cricket related writing too. Including a big piece for a major Australian publication! All very exciting.
Cheers
AF
05/05/2025
HELLO!
I write because I have to.
I sing despite myself.
I play guitar to escape.
Nothing changes. Much.
Happy days
AF, January 2025
POEM OF THE WEEK
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Junk Male
I live in the folds
between the smudges
and the smears
between the scattered
bread crumbs
and finished beers
beneath the skirting board
on the edge of crush dirt shelves
I reside in the unintentional creases
the fallen hems
and paper cuts
the lost buttons
and perennially binned junk mail
and sleep in the badly opened
milk carton
or under a night time leaking ceiling
I share space with a lost set of keys
stuffed down the back
of a threadbare sticky sofa
or survive as a missed morning alarm
as a taxi that doesn’t turn up
caught in the traffic that
simply grinds on and on
until it stalls at sunset.
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May 2025
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New words...
