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  • Toen werd de zee wel als een groot zwaar man . . .– Herman Gorter: Mei. Een gedicht. 1889. I was a great big man bursting out of the sea, dressed in my expensive olden-days bathers. “This is my country!” I roared, my brown arms filled with stunned silver fish (while, faraway,  the Russian drones…

  • As quoted in the band’s interview with Andrew Collins, “World War Skreeeee!”, in New Musical Express on 9 November 1991.

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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!…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Third album, third song: this is where a rock band has to crush it, or hang up the Rickenbackers for good.

  • Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, chorus, bit where it stops for the riff, repeat song title, instrumental fade out.

  • My first reaction when I heard “Big Brother Age” in my Surry Hills sharehouse back in 1996 was relief.

  • “(OCCULUS) RIFTS” has been published online in Cordite Poetry Review.

  • Love this, Lisa!