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Category: Blogging
Day-to-day minutiae.
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Between Empires: the reissue
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Ten years ago, almost to the day, I spent three weeks travelling in the USA, the UK and Germany. During that time I wrote a series of poems, entitled Between Empires. While many of these poems have been published individually, the collection itself has until now remained secret.
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SIPRI Yearbook 2012: its part in my downfall
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Heh, heh. Well, not really. But in the spirit of Spike Milligan, one could say that the last six months, during which I’ve been working at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) as an editor, have well and truly opened my eyes to what’s goin’ ahn in this crazy, mixed up world.
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In which I make my first foray into the wilds of West Virginia.
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Oh look, wow: Twitter functionality in WP!
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https://twitter.com/daveyinsweden/status/221722405838651392
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Yikes! Where did the time go?
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‘Regular’ ‘readers’ of this ‘blog’ would be excused for thinking that I’d fallen under a bus, given the absolute lack of any kind of update for over a month now. But the contrary is true: far from having fallen under a bus, I’m actually – ah, whatever.
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Neenish tarts, bus shelters, Wagga Wagga and me
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Never thought I’d use these four ‘terms’ in the same sentence but there you go – if life was a Venn diagram, there are several shaded areas in which me and neenish tarts would intersect.
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Poem of the week newsletter: twenty poems in!
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If it seems like an age ago that I posted the first installment of my poem-of-the-week odyssey, that’s because it was.
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Donald G. Payne on benzedrine, baths and nymphos
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After a while she realized she’d made a mistake: the sort of mistake that would never have occurred if she hadn’t been so tired. She tossed the calculations aside. She lit a cigarette, and noticed her hands were trembling. Christabel Barlow, she told herself, you’re damn-all use to anyone in your present state; you need…
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My Cordite Top Eleven!
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In this post, I look back on my years as Managing Editor of Cordite Poetry Review, and pick my top eleven choicest moments from what has been a thrilling, exhausting and ultimately life-affirming rollercoaster ride of love and passion.
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Cordite–Prairie Schooner collaboration now online
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I’m very pleased to say that Work: A Cordite–Prairie Schooner Fusion is now online, and available for your cerebral delectation. But what is Prairie Schooner? And what do I mean by ‘co-feature’? And what the heck is ‘cerebral delectation’ anyway? Prairie Schooner is a Nebraska-based literary journal currently edited by Kwame Dawes. The Cordite-Prairie Schooner…
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Back in 2004 – God, how old does that make me! – I participated in a slam as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival that involved teams of four doing group pieces and random solo poems as well.
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Editorial: “Work”
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I got my first paid job while I was still at school, working as a milk delivery boy in 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 hour, plus benefits.…
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Six poems find a new home …
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Apart from one or two forthcoming poems, these are the last to have been published first on this site. In the future, I’m hoping to be a little more generous when it comes to journals, and will be sending them only fresh poems that have not previously been ‘read’ by either human eyes or crawling…
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‘Space Invaders’ (1980)
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Just a little Youtube number in honour of Invasion Day (previously known as Australia Day).
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Stockholm Calling
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Just like a Californian burrito maker, I’ve been preventing myself from spilling the beans by keeping them strictly under wraps (rim-shot!) but now seems as good a moment as any to announce that I will be moving to Stockholm. In ten days.