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Posts focusing on the day-to-day minutiae of running an interconnected hyper-portal and dynamic HQ in the age of social mediocrity.
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As quoted in the band’s interview with Andrew Collins, “World War Skreeeee!”, in New Musical Express on 9 November 1991.
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Book announcement: Transition Vamps
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I’m happy to announce that Cordite Publishing Inc., through its poetry imprint Cordite Books, will publish my third full-length collection, Transition Vamps, in 2026.
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‘Nagasaki crows’ redux
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On 9 August 1945, US forces detonated a second atomic bomb over Japan, destroying the city of Nagasaki, killing around eighty-thousand people and injuring many more. The first bomb, which had levelled Hiroshima three days earlier, was not sufficient to prompt Japan to capitulate. Six days after the destruction of Nagasaki, however, and following Russia’s…
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Prairie Schooner Fusion Redux!
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It’s been a long time in the making but I’m very happy to announce that the latest issue of Prairie Schooner, a literary magazine produced by the English department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, features selections from the Digital Schooner Global Fusion series, including the first ‘Fusion’ co-feature, between Prairie Schooner and Cordite Poetry Review!…
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Cordite/Prairie Schooner Fusion Editorial Redux
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I got my first paid job while I was still at school, working as a milk delivery boy in the suburb of Wollongong, an industrial city in Australia where I lived with my family in the 1980s. I’d work three to four hours per night, three or four days per week, and received AUD3 per…
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Well, that didn’t last long, did it
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Barely six months has passed since I last changed my WordPress theme. This week, I did it again. I don’t have much more to say about it than that, to be honest. Once more, I’ve opted for one of Anders Norén‘s beautiful, minimalist themes: Björk. Mostly for the name, actually, but also because it’s quite…
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Les Fauves: “Tying One On”
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My contribution to this episode of Fauves Are the Best People was recorded in November 2024, when I was in transit in Korea, and on my way back to Australia for a flying visit.
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Les Fauves: “Skateboard World Record”
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My contribution to this episode of Fauves Are the Best People was recorded in late December 2024, when I was at my better half’s family’s for the Xmas obligatories.
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Les Fauves: “Self Abuser”
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Third album, third song: this is where a rock band has to crush it, or hang up the Rickenbackers for good.
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Les Fauves: “Don’t Get Death Threats Anymore”
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Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, chorus, bit where it stops for the riff, repeat song title, instrumental fade out.
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Les Fauves: “Big Brother Age”
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My first reaction when I heard “Big Brother Age” in my Surry Hills sharehouse back in 1996 was relief.
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New poem published: “(OCCULUS) RIFTS”
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“(OCCULUS) RIFTS” has been published online in Cordite Poetry Review.
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Lapkat (Lisa Greenaway): “Consciousness 1//Surface”
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Love this, Lisa!
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(It’s a Long, Long Way) From Clare to Here
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“From Clare to Here” is a typical emigrant’s song, writing back to a place that no longer exists.