Category: Blogging
Day-to-day minutiae.
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Welcome to PC Bangs!
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7 min read
Hello, welcome to PC Bangs and my apologies for the delay in getting things started. I have now been in Seoul for what seems like an eternity but which has actually only been two weeks. Over time, I hope to describe some of the aspects of Korea’s unique ‘PC Bang’ culture. Here, ‘bang’ is a…
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Course summary: Creative Writing
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1 min read
In 2005, as part of my Asialink residency in Seoul, I delivered a one-semester course in creative writing within the Department of English at Sogang University.
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Course summary: Australian Culture
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2 min read
In 2005, as part of my Asialink residency in Seoul, I delivered a one-semester course on Australian culture within the Department of English at Sogang University.
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Alone in an airport
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1 min read
all the concessions have finally closed the luggage tags likewise now unravel – i’ve spent the night in an airport alone even the cleaners have all gone home … out on the tarmacs the rain is a canvas the planes are invisible up in the sky at every counter the shutters have risen only perfumes…
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Tintin & the Death Star
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2 min read
i thought i smelt bad on the outside! now with this insufferable goon solo hacking my insides away only to reveal this succubus (this blonde boy tintin i will revise the absolute truth of that observation – phew! not a good start i’ll say – & how he’ll go on to blow up the death…
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Kunst-Wet
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1 min read
two intersecting lines radiate strings of heartbeats in four times double the directions secreting small agents into the surrounding streets & lanes transfers of desire stilt-legged voyages hour-burst rambles freshly-bottled smell of the underground random splices of muzac shred the dark corners of an interruption clock’s soundless alarm men follow women towards escalators triggered by…
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Phone the sky?
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1 min read
look up to the sky and phone me … don’t leave home without photographing it … never wake up when the stars are text messaging … just hang up when the delay starts messing with your head … all your italian credit is dead … gone to the great numeral zero in the magnetic strip…
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Homesick
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2 min read
there’s a boy leaving home on the train – i can see him see his mother on the platform trying not to cry – the boy knows no restraint too young to hold it in he’s bawling – for a moment he is me & i can feel that sad old fear of separation grown…
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Martello Tower
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1 min read
july has been a month of forts … (i write out my self-imposed exile) from central park to sandy cove belgrade’s citadel to old dubrovnik (but maybe now i’ll write a modern poem disregard historical valour) i like the way joyce twisted facts made buck mulligan & the other one appear more evil than they…
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It’s a mountain
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1 min read
all the world’s a beograd restaurant & everybody’s smoking there before & during after dinner—no one stops to smell the air (which i guess is just as well it’s full of lead besides the noise) you’ve just got to write on through it trust that one day upon your return you’ll find a poem in…
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A Chara / Is Mise
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1 min read
suddenly through sunshine … they
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Eire Supply
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1 min read
readers small change and steps
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18 Fields
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1 min read
0 zero (none, nothing)
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Recreational Rioting
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1 min read
blast bombs spherical footfalls
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Gaeltacht!
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1 min read
both her pearse had ears –