Very sad to hear about Sam Neill. His documentary about New Zealand cinema is wonderful: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovtj... And his performance in Possession (1981) is spectacular, in that brilliantly bizarre film.

Many thanks to @amsterdamreview.bsky.social for publishing this poem.

Happy birthday Neil Finn. Thank you for making Together Alone. www.bloomsbury.com/au/crowded-h...

A new Brigadoon album is forthcoming: Everyone & No One is out July 3, with a small run of CDs available via Bandcamp come release. A "single", if you can call it that, is out now: "Maya Sleeps & Dreams": Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/45q96p... Bandcamp: brigadoon.bandcamp.com/track/maya-s...

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

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.

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

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...

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

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.

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). clip.cafe/jeremiah-joh...

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/...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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