Barnaby Smith
@abarnabyms.bsky.social
Writing about music, literature, art and cinema. Sometimes poems.
33 1/3 Oceania book on Crowded House: https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/crowded-houses-together-alone-9798765105153/.
Album released in 2020: https://brigadoon.bandcamp.com/album/itch-factor
33 1/3 Oceania book on Crowded House: https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/crowded-houses-together-alone-9798765105153/.
Album released in 2020: https://brigadoon.bandcamp.com/album/itch-factor
Thanks to @dougwallen.bsky.social for this generous piece for Broadsheet about the Together Alone book: www.broadsheet.com.au/national/ent...
Crowded House’s Moodiest Album Is the Subject of a New Book
Blending elements of scholarship, criticism and travelogue, Crowded House’s Together Alone is a fresh look at one of Australia’s most beloved bands.
www.broadsheet.com.au
November 5, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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...
Split Enz - Sweet Dreams (Official Video)
YouTube video by Split Enz
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October 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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...
D'Angelo - Africa (Acoustic outtake)
YouTube video by Wry Fawkes
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October 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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...
Penrith’s long NRL reign is over. Even as a Panthers fan, I feel a little relieved | Barnaby Smith
The success was dazzling but it became almost awkward. We can now celebrate the achievements and see another team lift the trophy
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September 29, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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.
September 25, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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...
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Barnaby Smith
Barnaby Smith is a poet, critic, journalist and musician living on Darug and Gundungurra land in New South Wales, Australia. Recent work has appeared in journals or anthologies such as Stand, Blackbox...
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September 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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
@pamenarpress.bsky.social
"I've been to a town, Del". My favourite Redford film: Jeremiah Johnson (1972).
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September 17, 2025 at 8:48 AM
"I've been to a town, Del". My favourite Redford film: Jeremiah Johnson (1972).
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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
August 14, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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 often dream of songs - Axon Journal
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August 12, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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...
Together Alone with Crowded House and talking About Ghosts with Mary Halvorson - ABC listen
Brooklyn-based jazz guitarist and composer Mary Halvorson has released a new album About Ghosts. Featuring her long-time improvisatory band Amaryllis, this time she’s also added two saxophonists into ...
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July 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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...
Reposted by Barnaby Smith
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...
It's available internationally
Credit to Frenz Forum for this I wouldn't know about it otherwise 👍🎶
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/crowded-h...
Crowded House's Together Alone
Intertextual, passionate and personal throughout, Crowded House's Together Alone is a key addition to the surprisingly limited range of scholarship on one of Au…
www.bloomsbury.com
July 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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...
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...
Crowded House's Together Alone
Intertextual, passionate and personal throughout, Crowded House's Together Alone is a key addition to the surprisingly limited range of scholarship on one of Au…
www.bloomsbury.com
July 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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...
Our Prayer (Remastered 2001)
YouTube video by The Beach Boys - Topic
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June 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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...
At the Edge of the World with Barnaby Smith: Inside the Landscape and Legacy of Crowded House’s 'Together Alone'
Barnaby Smith’s deep-dive into Together Alone by Crowded House’s is an exploration of how music and place can become profoundly inseparable.
happymag.tv
June 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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-...
Vol. 27 Ed. 2 -P- Adolescence by Barnaby Smith — Stirring: A Literary Collection
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May 14, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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.
With thanks to editor Amanda Lucas-Frith.
Polyp (Vagabond Press) - Plumwood Mountain
About a quarter of the way through Ashley Haywood’s Polyp, a poem arrives that provides decisive illumination and clarity regarding the philosophical, ecological and existential questions, and sheer e...
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April 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Review of Ashley Haywood's quite stunning debut collection Polyp, for Plumwood Mountain: plumwoodmountain.com/book-review/...
With thanks to editor Amanda Lucas-Frith.
With thanks to editor Amanda Lucas-Frith.
You can't celebrate Richard Chamberlain without mentioning The Slipper and the Rose: youtu.be/HKPjyZWr6OQ?...
What a Comforting Thing to Know
YouTube video by slipperandtherose
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March 31, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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...
Windows to the world: a conversation with Glen O’Malley
Queenslander Glen O’Malley stands as a key figure among a generation of photographers who depicted the domestic lives of Australians in the 1970s and 1980s. In an interview with Barnaby Smith, he disc...
artguide.com.au
March 9, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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...
night falls over Yarramundi
i can see it now when the roads stiffen on descent to overlook swathes of apparently empty planet the air here is sharply breathed, where the city skyline changes shape & colour to pose new que…
cordite.org.au
February 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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/...
'Electric emperor: When Bob Dylan did a Napoleon' by Barnaby Smith
he famous backlash against Bob Dylan’s switch to playing electric music in the mid-1960s is often misunderstood. It was not an objection based on musical aesthetics. Folk purists, such as the audience...
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January 20, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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...
& a small piece found its way into the Best Australian Poems 2024 volume: newsouthbooks.com.au/books/best-o...
Barnaby Smith — ballast
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January 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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...
& 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...
Barnaby Smith — Tentacular
Three Poems
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December 13, 2024 at 11:47 AM
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
Ranger magazine
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November 24, 2024 at 11:55 PM
A few poems for the recent Issue 6 of @rangermagazine.bsky.social : www.rangermagazine.net/smith_issue6