Talie Helene
PO BOX 6036
Vermont South
3133 Australia
If we have an interview booked in, via phone or Skype, please remember the time difference between where I am, and where you are:
Time in Melbourne, Australia
I use this MySpace page for networking in entertainment & arts; music, publishing and film. I also use MySpace to keep up with friendships online. Time being finite, & arts people often awesome, there's a happy overlap of the two.
I publish freelance music journalism, book reviews, poetry and non-fiction, and am aspiring (expiring?) to publish some fiction soon. I have poetry published in a number of Australian literary journals (Voiceworks, Inscape, Venn Diagram, Inkshed, Avant), and Mary Manning's ABOUT POETRY (Oxford University Press.) I keep a Livejournal and a Newsvine Column; for a lark I keep an Elfwood Gallery.
I'm proud to write professionally for extreme music magazine
I'm NEWS EDITOR for the the Australian Horror Writers Association.
AHWA aims to become the first point of reference for writers and fans of the dark side of literature in Australia; to spread acceptance and improve understanding of horror literature - and in doing so, gain a greater readership for established and new writers alike.
I'm an Editor at HorrorScope: The Australian Dark Fiction Weblog.
HorrorScope is an Australian news and literary criticism zine dedicated to dark fiction and some speculative fiction. HorrorScope is the official news source for the Australian Horror Writers Association.
I'm a reviewer for ASif! - Australian Horror, SciFi & Fantasy.
You'll find my collected reviews listed at my Reviewer Biography.
Event Management
[ Fans of HAMMERHEART please note: the event is on an indefinite hiatus, while I concentrate on developing my creative writing and music. I hope you will continue to support live music, so that we will always have such performances to enjoy. ]
Influences
Sounds Like
The wind worries corrugated surfaces, dragging knuckles over the washboard of the world. Carried by an ocean without water - a deluge - debris collects at the high tideline of my heart. Three yellow leaves, and three grey feathers caked with ashen grit. A spindle of wild grass and a thresh of dry eucalypt leaves. A pale yellow gum blossom, skirts lifted about a red stamen. A hollow plastic fish with a red snout, drained of Soya Sauce. Two small white feathers, a curl of raw bark, a scar of treated pine. The unkissed lip of a broken bottle. I pick through the trash and treasure searching for unconscious connections between images that could untwine the mystery between us; if it worked like that, would I be fractured under the weight of insight, or would I wear the understanding lightly? It isn't easy here, in the skin of the writer, the skin of the musician. Am I a roughly assembled rag doll of interdisciplinary aspirations, or am I becoming my natural potential? How dangerous are questions? Why do I feel so barely stitched together? My insides of woman barely covered, my ambition a makeshift tourniquet rather than a divas finery. A bit rough around the edges? A bit rough all over. I am not a machine, but if I run all the time, will I run down, or break the last horse of hope? Am I stretched too thin, or is it that I have been shredded apart so much that there is more wounded territory than whole? Only the wind roars within and without, calling 'Where will the stillness come from?'
Just thought I would stop by, say hello and wish you a great week. It's been a year since I mentioned it but Quartal still resonates with me for some reason. I just have to hear it every so often.
DROPPIN' SOME PEACEFUL VIBRATIONS TALIE !! BLESSINGS OF ABUNDANCE TO YOU AND YOURS !! GIVE DA SCOTT-BRO MY BEST. MAYBE HE COULD DROP ME A LINE ?? heh Mucho Amore' M'Lady !! ~ NAMASTE ~ Jeff *hugs*
Thank you for requesting my friendship even though i didn't get much of chance to speak to you when we finally met! Hope you've had a good week so far!
Hello dear, Just stopping by to share a caring thought and to send you a star that will illuminate your path. Thank you for sharing your talent and your heart with the world. Thank you for being with us. Light & Love, Liliana
MAY YOUR WEEKEND BE FULL OF BLISS BEAUTIFUL TALIE !! YOU JUST GET MORE AND MORE BONITA M'LADY !! Jeff
i give thy honor to thee bestowed by worthy grace for our sky embracing me and winds that touch my face this journey traveled onward with rain or sun the gift all so free by nature heard does hold and will so lift ~ J S G ~
