David Prater is an Australian-born writer, editor and parent. His interests include mince pies, ice hockey and Joy Division.
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Writing the unspeakable: On parenting and poetry
Who are we to burden ourselves with such unrealistic expectations?
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Writing about ‘The Americans’ with Alicia Sometimes
It seemed that the show’s producers had spent more on wigs than they had on the script.
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You’re Killing Me: An update
So excited that I just had to share this here, too. My imaginary #Netflix series ‘You’re Killing Me’, a gritty, eight-part murder mystery based on the true story of US indie rock band #Pavement, has been name-checked on a podcast about Pavement, entitled The Pavement Conundrum! Listen in from 27:20 to 28:35 for some smooth…
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Dag Hammarskjöld’s 1961 Oxford lecture: Three untold stories
While the history of Dag Hammarskjöld’s Oxford lecture could fill a book, this post explores the untold stories behind three known versions of the text.
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Stéphane Mallarmé is dead: all praise the empty page!
Stéphane Mallarmé is dead. Long may his absence linger. Long may the horrifying abyss of the white (and black) pages confound we poets, prattlers and plagiarists. And long may we question the substance of our languages, the correspondences between organic, systemic lifeforms and the unstoppable progress of symbols: numbers, letters, marks, voids . . .…
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The Old Invisible Sankt Olof Express
“Something special. Something almost hyperreal.”
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The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry
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
Just how long is seven minutes, anyway?
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Oasis’ Definitely Maybe and the end of indie
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …