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Yikes! Where did the time go?
'Regular' 'readers' of this 'blog' would be excused for thinking that I'd fallen under a bus, given the absolute lack of any kind of update for over a month now. But the contrary is true: far from having fallen under a bus, I'm actually - ah, whatever.
16 May, 2012
From the Archives: Sam & Dave Historical Tour
One of the things that I've been quietly bitter about for a long time now is the fact that the Wikipedia page for David Prater redirects to the page for Dave Prater from the soul duo Sam and Dave.
12 Apr, 2012
Neenish tarts, bus shelters, Wagga Wagga and me
Never thought I'd use these four 'terms' in the same sentence but there you go - if life was a Venn diagram, there are several shaded areas in which me and neenish tarts would intersect.
29 Mar, 2012
Poem of the week newsletter: twenty poems in!
If it seems like an age ago that I posted the first installment of my poem-of-the-week odyssey, that's because it was.
28 Mar, 2012
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Quotes to Remember (14)
"After a while she realized she'd made a mistake: the sort of mistake that would never have occurred if she hadn't been so tired ..."
28 Mar, 2012
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From the Archives: Desmond
I think I must have written this poem some time in the early 1990s. I have absolutely no idea what it's about but I really like the concluding couplet, for some reason (and in fact I think I've even re-used it in other poems over the years as well)....
18 Mar, 2012
From the Archives: Aussie Eats
“I wonder how many of our young district people could tell me what Nardoo is. No doubt most of them think wheat was the first thing ever grown in this district from which bread was made. They forget the Nardoo which still grows and is not even noticed. A...
29 Feb, 2012
Solna
I lived in Solna, a suburban hub just to the north of Stockholm, for the past four weeks. Gosh that's interesting.
From the Archives: Last Night Betty Extender (audio)
It seems like a long time ago that I wrote the poem 'Last Night Betty', and it seems like an eternity since I listened to this slice of mixed up toe-jam.
15 Feb, 2012
My Cordite Top Eleven!
In this post, I look back on my years as Managing Editor of Cordite Poetry Review, and pick my top eleven choicest moments from what has been a thrilling, exhausting and ultimately life-affirming rollercoaster ride of love and passion.
14 Feb, 2012
Welcome!
O hai, this is my blog. Here you'll find over 1,000 posts on all sorts of topics. One of my New Year's resolutions for 2012 is to try and blog more regularly but we all know what happens when we make promises we can't keep. If you'd like to contact me directly, use the Feedback tab on the right-hand side of this page, or else consider subscribing to my poem of the week newsletter!
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