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Author: David Prater
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Vast
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1 min read
You could take Brazil in an afternoon, sure. Knock yerself out, call me when yr done, etc. Consider that continent’s arc: it’s gesturing across the Atlantic, towards Ghana, or was it Côte d’Ivoire, or both? — you decide, call me when it’s done. Let us speak of it forever, or more. Speak of vast hillsides…
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The Old Invisible Sankt Olof Express
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5 min read
“Something special. Something almost hyperreal.”
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Ten years in Sweden
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1 min read
And … that’s a wrap for the decade! This time 10 years ago the K&D Stylingz crew travelled for the first time to “breezy” Karlskrona in the Swedish province of Blekinge. The entire country was blanketed in heavy snow and, as you can see from this picture, even the sea was frozen. For, like, a…
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The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry
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2 min read
It’s super exciting for me that “Capa” has received not a second but a third lease of life, having first “appeared” in the pages of Southerly waaaaaay back in 2007.
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My Bloody Valentine, ‘Soon’ and the ideal song length
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13 min read
Just how long is seven minutes, anyway?
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Oasis’ Definitely Maybe and the end of indie
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11 min read
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …
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New front page, liveblogging feature added
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2 min read
Well, despite the seemingly unending flow of posts about Camp Davey it’s been pretty busy around here lately. In the Intramanet industry we talk about the back end and the front end. While you’ve no doubt been entertained by the travails of Scaramouche, the D/DN boffins have been tinkering away behind the scenes to ensure…
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Ray
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1 min read
it’s a shame (about ray? no, just the way the sunlight hits the window’s triple-glaze revealing all your childrens’ fingerprints & you thought you’d cleaned it yesterday that pristine pane never stood a chance anyway (you mutter to yourself, leaning in to some andante (or was it al dente? never! solo piano courtesy of a…
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The Self in Travel Writing and the discourse of travel
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16 min read
What do you think about the discourse of travel? Is it a question of privilege? Or has the whole act of travel become mundane?
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“And Zen nothing turned itself inside out . . . ”
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Letters to Live Poets at fifty: sound as ever
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10 min read
“No notes are given as I can’t remember all of the sources.”
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Cars
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1 min read
This poem first appeared in Jacket (#8, 1999).
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(On the Tomb of) Victor Bruce
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3 min read
This poem was commissioned by the Red Room Project in 2004.
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Göteborg Book Fair 2019: Hanguk style
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19 min read
Göteborg Book Fair 2019 provided an opportunity to re-immerse myself in Korean literature and culture via a mini-festival of humanity.