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Day-to-day minutiae.

  • Site update!

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    Welcome to [d/dn v.10] – finally! I’m currently trying to migrate all of my Blogger posts to this blog, with some difficulty. Seems I’m losing a lot of formatting, the server’s timing out and sundry other jitches are cursing my desire to upgrade and move on out. However, there is light at the end of…

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  • Abendland reviewed online

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    My chapbook Abendland has been reviewed by Philly poet Adam Fieled on his excellent blog. Check out the review here (Wayback) or read it below: David Prater is an Australian poet, editor of the excellent online journal Cordite. Recently he sent me one of his chapbooks, Abendland. It’s a fascinating read, on several levels. The most interesting dichotomy…

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  • Going Down Swinging 24: the editorial

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    Like most good things in life, my stint as co-editor of Going Down Swing­ing, Australia’s finest lit­er­ary mag­a­zine, was all too brief. This is my editorial from issue #24, which was published in print in 2006.

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  • Judge’s Report from the Boroondara Literary Awards

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    2006 BOROONDARA LITERARY AWARDS PRESENTATION RUNNING SHEET Hawthorn Town Hall Chandelier Room Thursday 16 November at 6.00pm for 6.30pm start 6.00pm VIPs, Speakers and guests arrive – refreshments available 6.28pm MC requests people to be seated and thanks musician from Eisteddfod 6.30pm Welcome by the Mayor 5 mins 6.35pm MC gives opening “warm up” piece…

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  • Great Moments In the Modern History of the Handclap

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    One cloudy day last August, at the Rock En Seine music festival in Paris, me and Kat were lucky enough to see one of my favourite bands, Broken Social Scene, perform to a rapturous crowd in the rain (see the pics here). While we missed the band’s opening numbers, a surge of excitement pulsed through…

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  • Doppelgangers

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    I’ve gone through most of my life thinking my name is fairly weird—not my first name, my surname, der—and that the chances of anyone else having it are slim. That was until I found out that one half of legendary soul duo Sam and Dave was also named David Prater (he died in 1998) and…

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  • My Hero

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  • Captcha

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  • Ye ken what day it be today, ye land lubbers?

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    Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar! Sorry.

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  • Poets for the Red Cross: 9/11 five years on

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    I’m happy and hesitant about being included in this anthology.

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  • My Pals

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    They’re back. Meet Grisby, Tilda and Joey. Hoi!

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  • Here comes the judge

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    For the first time ever, I’ve been asked to be a judge for a short story competition. The competition, organised by the City of Boroondara, features three categories: Open Short Story (judge Paddy O’Reilly), Young Writers Poetry (judge Bulk Ace) and Young Writers Prose (judge, yours truly). Jippie. Here’s hoping we get lots of good…

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  • Poetry Picture Show

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    In breaking news I’ve been chosen as one of 10 poets to participate in a project organised by Johanna Featherstone’s The Red Room, a Sydney-based arts company specialising in poetry projects for screen, radio, print and real space. Entitled Poetry Picture Show, the project asks each of us to write an original poem inspired by…

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  • Imaginary City in Stylus!

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    Issue 22 of Stylus Poetry Journal is out now, featuring some kewl haiku plus poetry by Frances Raven, Justin Lowe, Barbara Archer, Julie Beveridge, Caroline Gilbo, Leanne Hills, Graham Nunn, Ynes Sanza, Jena Woodhouse, Caleb Puckett, Mandy Beaumont, Alison Eastley and me! Read imaiginary cities: heli today! This is the fifth city to have found…

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  • U.S.S.R. (January-June 2006)

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    William Gibson, Pattern Recognition Mark Davis, Gangland Dorothy Porter, What A Piece Of Work Anna Funder, Stasiland Mary Ellen Jordan, Balanda: My Year In Arnhem Land Peter Carey, Wrong About Japan Brett Dionysius, Universal Andalusia Luke Beesley, Lemon Shark Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood Nicholson Baker, Checkpoint Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog In…

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