Body of Words
Production
Details & Acknowledgements
Poems from Things in a Glass Box (SCARP/Five Islands Press, New Poets Series 1994). The Mummy's Foot was the winner of The Age Short Story Award in 1994. Love Poem and We Are the Rejected were originally performed for the New Writer's segment of Arts Today 24/4/1995. Voice recording for this CD by Claudia Taranto and sound production by Stuart Ewings. (32:19)
By My Look's Caress, first published in My Look's Caress: A Collection of Modern Romances, ed. Beth Yahp, et al. Local Consumption, 1990. Prod. by Claudia Taranto for In the Mix, 3/2/1992; performed by Dina Panozzo, Melissa Jaffer & Jacqueline McKenzie. (12:56)
Food and Cars, prod. Mark Wakely & Kerry Stewart for The Comfort Zone, 20/5/2000. (4:52)
My Mother's Eyes, the Sky, the Clouds is from How to Conceive of a Girl (Vintage/Random House, 1996), first published in P76, No. 5, 1992. Recorded at Star Productions, Clunes, Victoria. Prod. by Stuart Ewings. (3:11)
Excerpts from: The True Story of an Escape Artist, from an essay published in Family Pictures, ed. Beth Yahp, HarperCollins, 1995. Prod. Brent Clough for Radio Eye, 30/10/1994. (10:15)
Doing the Rock: June 1984, originally published in Westerly, March 1988. Prod. Claudia Taranto for The Listening Room, November 1991. Excerpt from The De Kroo Brothers' 'Beautiful Brown Eyes' (circa 1962) used with kind permission by Leo and Doug De Kroo. (6:47)
Extract from: A Lover of Space, from a story in How to Conceive of a Girl. Originally prod. Claudia Taranto for The Comfort Zone, 13/12/1997; this version by Stuart Ewings, recorded at Star Productions; my thanks to Elvis Wore Nappies for background music. (6:27)
Those Two Little Words, prod. Matthew Leonard for Radio Eye, 2/12/2000; also published in Australian Humanities Review, September 2000, with an excerpt in The Age, December 2nd 2000. (12.21)
Playing the Man: Memories of Football, prod. Claudia Taranto for In The Mix, 19/7/1991; replayed on the Sports Factor (1996), Radio Eye (1997) and Life Matters (1998), and published in Ulitarra, No. 1, 1992. This piece is dedicated to my father, Walter Collins Spencer, who played 13 games for Hawthorn in 1946. (10:48)
I'd Like to Have Permission to be Postmodern… was originally written for the National Book Council Summit, Authenticity, Authority and Appropriation, in September 1996; later published in The Sydney Morning Herald, 22/3/97; on the internet in Jacket Magazine; and in README! ascii culture and the revenge of knowledge (UK, 1998). Recorded for Books & Writing, 23/5/1997 at the Boorondarah Festival, May 1997; prod. by Ramona Koval and Suzanne Donisthorpe. (11.22)
Gardens in the Sixties, prod. Kerry Stewart for The Comfort Zone, 10/6/ 2000. (4:44)
Watching Big Brother, prod. Claudia Taranto for Life Matters, 4/4/2002. (7:31)
The Family Man, from Things in a Glass Box, originally prod. by Mike Ladd for The Box Seat 19/1/1995. This recording produced by Claudia Taranto. (3:06)
Eve in the Garden, prod. Claudia Taranto for The Listening Room, 20/4/1992; performed by Dina Panozzo, Melissa Jaffer, Jacqueline McKenzie & Queenie Ashton; also published in Mattoid, No 22, 1986, and in How to Conceive of a Girl. (17:12)
Except where otherwise indicated, all pieces originally produced for
ABC Radio National and remastered by Redwood Entertainment, Ballarat,
Australia (www.cdyastuff.com). Additional production by Stuart Ewings.
ABC productions c. the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and
reproduced under licence; other productions and all text c. Beth
Spencer, 2004.