A duet with poet Alex Scott, about a real life incident, wandered off into the Sahara, without telling anyone.  This piece combines two poems of ours, originally written at separate times about the same situation, into a single narrative.

This poem features as track #7 on my first album, Product.  Enjoy.

The Saharan Siren Song

A poem about Dinosaurs, ostensibly.  You can read whatever else you like into it.  Interestingly, when I first recorded this, a lot of vocal effect and reverb was used to achieve the gravelly voice, and I also took several takes to complete it all.  Since then, not to disappoint audiences, I now perform the poem live sounding almost exactly like this.  Wrecks my throat every time!

Behemoth

Writes poetry about other poetry, cycling, being weird around people, being a haemophiliac, travelling, masculinity and sexuality, dinosaurs and your boyfriend. People have called Randall controversial. Randall has called people idiots.  Because they’re idiots.

He’s been published, broadcast, vilified, ostracized, substance affected and performed throughout Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia and Borneo as well as slammed in New York and London.

Randall currently lives in Denial, and has toured extensively through other emotional states throughout Australia.  Earlier this year he completed a solo cross-continental cycling journey from Perth to Melbourne, raising funds and  awareness for Haemophilia Foundation Victoria, while performing poetry from his new book 'One For The Road’.

He continues blogging new poetry at ‘Tales Told By An Idiot’ (www.randallstephenspoetry.com) and his is first album ‘PRODUCT’ is available on Bandcamp (see links below) 


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