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  • We Will Disappear: it’s real!

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    Well it’s been over ten years in the making so I’m overjoyed and relieved to inform you that my debut poetry collection We Will Disappear will be released this year through soi3, an imprint of papertiger media. The book will feature between fifty and one hundred poems, including some that have already been published, both…

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  • 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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