Seething since 2000*
Zen writing: the art of the clean, meditative paragraph
"And Zen nothing turned itself inside out . . . "
David Prater
David Prater is an Australian-born writer, editor and parent. His interests include mince pies, ice hockey and Joy Division.
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Letters to Live Poets at fifty: sound as ever
"No notes are given as I can’t remember all of the sources."
Cars
This poem first appeared in Jacket (#8, 1999).
(On the Tomb of) Victor Bruce
This poem was commissioned by the Red Room Project in 2004.
Göteborg Book Fair 2019: Hanguk style
Göteborg Book Fair 2019 provided an opportunity to re-immerse myself in Korean literature and culture via a mini-festival of humanity.
Bernard O’Dowd: rewriting the colonial wizard of Oz
What happens when you cross a rhyming sonnet (written on the eve of the federation of Australia) with a 21st-century, post-avant sensibility?
Ashbery Mode: my poem for John Ashbery anthologized (at last)!
"whanging in the absence of wind"
Mature-age students are really cool
But isn't uni supposed to be for young people?
Where did the time go?
Well, actually, we had a baby.
