David Prater is an Australian-born writer, editor and parent. His interests include mince pies, ice hockey and Joy Division.
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The Self in Travel Writing and the discourse of travel
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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Zen writing: the art of the clean, meditative paragraph
“And Zen nothing turned itself inside out . . . ”
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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.”
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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.
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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?
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Ashbery Mode: my poem for John Ashbery anthologized (at last)!
“whanging in the absence of wind”
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Animal Collective live in Leuven and Stockholm
Documenting my Animal Collective journey, from 2008 to 2012.
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대담시: Audacity
This is a rewrite of ‘imaginary cities: auda—’, a prose poem originally written in a PC Bang during my Asialink residency in Seoul in 2005.
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Between Empires: the reissue
Ten years ago, almost to the day, I spent three weeks travelling in the USA, the UK and Germany. During that time I wrote a series of poems, entitled Between Empires. While many of these poems have been published individually, the collection itself has until now remained secret.
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Cordite 37.1: Nebraska
Poetry Editor: Sean M. Whelan Released: 12 February 2012 Pandora archive (NLA)