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Category: Blogging
Day-to-day minutiae.
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OMG I heart Darryl
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We Will Disappear: the First Anniversary!
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It’s a quiet kind of milestone but my book We Will Disappear was launched one year ago this weekend at the Melbourne Writers Festival. Quiet in the sense that I am about ten thousand miles from this year’s MWF, where some class acts will be performing.
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Ps. Do they eat their chips with mayonnaise there?
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A good friend asked me this question the other day, in reference to my (now officially longer than three months) stay here in the Netherlands. I began answering her question via email, however after a few paragraphs I realised that this information had to be made public. Speculation upon these and other matters then led…
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News, review(s) and booze
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Tasmanian indie lit journal Famous Reporter has received a nice write-up/review in the pages of Wet Ink. Editor Ralph Wessman, who has been running the mag forever, has now certainly received at least one minute of his allotted 15 in fame terms—let’s see what we can do about the other 14.
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Chris de Burgh on fame, privacy and fans
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I have always been very polite to my fans as long as they understand that there are public moments and private moments. Even on tour I demand my privacy, particularly if I am tired. And I can’t be available to all people all of the time. But I never forget my manners and so far…
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Good news and bad
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**UPDATE** Cordite Poetry Review is now back online! The good news is that I’ve now narrowed down over 700 pages of submissions for Cordite 28: Secret Cities to just 50. The process was both fun and exhausting, although there’s a couple of pieces in there that (if I were the writer) I’d really want to…
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499 Comments and Counting!
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As if the excitement of reaching 1000 posts wasn’t enough, now I’ve gone and got myself all shook up over what I calculate will soon by the 500th comment on this site (or the agglomeration of sites which is now [d/dn]). At a ratio of approximately 2:1, you’re obviously happy for me to crap on,…
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Bonfire of the Vanity Presses: the article
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My article on self-publishing, entitled “Bonfire of the Vanity Presses” has been published in the latest issue of the Weekend Australian. Unlike Justin Clemens’ review of my book We Will Disappear, which was published in last weekend’s edition, this one is available online and you can now read the whole thing, in all its ragged glory…
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It is nice to be reviewed!
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10 things I have noticed about the Netherlands
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What better way to bring up my one thousand and first post than to reflect on my first two weeks in the Netherlands!
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(I Can Haz) 1,000th Post!
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After 1,000 posts some might be tempted to rest on their laurels. But not I. In fact, I’m looking forward to the next 1,000 posts and planning ways to make them better. After all, my readers matter more to me than I matter to myself. Ehm … apologies to Derek for riffing off his suggestion…
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999 posts … and counting
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It’s hard to believe but this is my 999th post on daveydreamnation.com – a seemingly meaningless milestone if you will; and yet it’s also a chance to reflect, for a nanosecond, on everything that has happened since I first started blogging in 2001/2002. I’ll spare you the trip down memory/amnesia lane that often seems mandatory…
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“Secret Lives of the Colonial Poets”
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Secret Lives of the Colonial Poets was the original title of the collection of poems that was later published as Leaves of Glass in 2013.
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My poetry in the real world
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It’s been a while since I updated my publications page, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy sending stuff out. Well, actually, I’ve been busy waiting for journals and magazines to respond to my submissions. All writers know this drill: in fact, I know of about 300 submissions to Cordite that I’m currently unable…
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Banned In the UAE
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