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“There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around
That the colt from old Regret had got away,
And had joined the wild bush horses – he was worth a thousand pound,
So all the cracks had gathered to the fray.
All the tried and noted riders from the stations near and far
Had mustered at the homestead overnight,
For the bushmen love hard riding where the wild bush horses are,
And the stock-horse snuffs the battle with delight.”

YES MY FRIENDS! The night you have been dreaming of. A night of passionate tales of the drover, of the swagman, of the rust and the dust and the wattle and redcoats and the whisky.

6–8pm, Fbi Social, Kings Cross Hotel, Sydney
Facebook event here

FEATURING
THE SUITCASE ROYALE AS YOUR HOUSE BAND
HOSTED BY NICK COYLE
Jess Cook // Zoe Coombs Marr // Eddie Sharp // Thomas Henning // Daniel Stacey // Alice Gage // With an open mic to finish off the night, so BYO ballads.
AND TIN SPARROW will close the night with a live broadcast.

Free! With a bushranger beard gift on entry.

More photos of the launch of Issue 4 at the State Library of New South Wales here.

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I don’t think it’s possible to get a better breakfast. Porch and Parlour.

With the release of the new issue and the general feelings of mirth and TGIS (thank god it’s spring) that come upon us during jasmine season, there are so many parties and events and launches and festivals and things happening, so here’s a list of stuff that Ampersand is doing over the next month or so in the physical realm.

14 September – Outspoken #10, Fbi Social Kings Cross
The best in Sydney poetics shines a bit of light on Ampersand, where we’ll be giving away free copies and selling some too. Organised by the great Jess Cook, Ampersand contributor and heir apparent to the Clover Moore throne.
Facebook event here.

20 September – Issue 4 launch at the State Library of NSW
In the ballroom no less. Hosted by ABC’s Jennifer Byrne and featuring readings by contributors Thomas Henning, Nick Coyle, Jess Cook and Adam Jasper Smith. Drinks and chats and laughs. Free. What more do you people want?
Facebook event here.

30 September – National Young Writers’ Festival, Newcastle
Alice Gage will be a panelist on ‘Don’t Press Send: Editor-Writer Relationships’ panel.  Friday, 2pm
Alice has also inexplicably been asked to chair the ‘Super Sad True Pomo Love Story: Writing Earnest Fictional Romance in the Ironic Age’ panel.
Friday, 4pm
youngwritersfestival.org

7 October – Ampersand Magazine and The Suitcase Royale present Potluck, Fbi Social, Kings Cross: Bush Ballads
Taking a leaf from the bushy current issue, we will be putting on a hootananny with The Suitcase Royale the only way we know how – with R.M. Williams, Drizabones and non-ironic recitals of bush poetry. Featuring Nick Coyle, Eddie Sharp, Charlie Garber and others.
Fbi Social

Some time in late October – Issue 4 launch in Melbourne
More to come.

Edgecliff Station newsagency

Yep. Pretty bloody exciting. ‘From the heart of the forest to the edge of the road’ is almost with us.

You can pre-order right here.

Featuring:

Senator Bob Brown on his life at Liffey, Tasmania
Tommy Murphy on living with his father’s Alzheimer’s
Adam Jasper Smith on the liquidation of Fisher Library
Amelia Groom on iconoclasm
Fabian Muir on the ghost towns of Chernobyl
Tracey Moffatt‘s ‘Plantation’ series
Artist project by My Darling Patricia
Art by Anna Kristensen, Craig Reynolds, Tom Polo, Tjala Arts (Central Australia) and Lucy Parakhina
Comics by Leigh Rigozzi
Fiction by Thomas Henning and Nick Coyle
Poetry by Jess Cook
Oxford Men’s College Question answered by Stella Mozgawa of Warpaint

And that’s just the nutshell.