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The herculean task of remembering all the 1990s UK indie band names ever

Back in 2011, I took one of my many trips down Amnesia Lane. A little bit like this one, in fact. I decided to create a list of all the great UK indie bands from the early 1990s. The problem…

ByDavid Prater
On23 February 2020

Essays

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?

ByDavid Prater
On4 February 2020
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Essays

Zen writing: the art of the clean, meditative paragraph

A gardener sweeping leaves at Kenrokuen garden, Kanazawa

"And Zen nothing turned itself inside out . . . "

ByDavid Prater
On15 January 2020
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Essays, Reviews

Letters to Live Poets at fifty: sound as ever

"No notes are given as I can’t remember all of the sources."

ByDavid Prater
On30 December 2019

Poems

Cars

This poem first appeared in Jacket (#8, 1999).

ByDavid Prater
On4 December 2019

Poems, We Will Disappear

(On the Tomb of) Victor Bruce

This poem was commissioned by the Red Room Project in 2004.

ByDavid Prater
On4 December 2019

Essays

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.

ByDavid Prater
On22 October 2019

Essays

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?

ByDavid Prater
On17 September 2019

Premature Installation

New site theme: ‘Chaplin’

Yeah, yeah. I KNOW!

ByDavros Dreamnation
On11 September 2019

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