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Category: Blogging
Day-to-day minutiae.
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Pat Cash on Wimbledon and tennis balls
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The ITF needs to do something to help the volley because, at the moment, it has died. The attacker has no chance. Pat Rafter or me, at our best, would get smashed out there. The balls they use here are soft and they fluff up after three games. After a few games it’s almost impossible…
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Hourly forecast for Karlskrona (Blekinge, Sweden)
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While most of my Australian friends sweat it out in typical summer fashion, here’s what we’ve got to look forward to over the next two days:
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Happy St Lucy’s Day!
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Today is St Lucy’s Day or, in Swedish, ‘Luciadagen’.
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Lavender Zine: in a matchbox!
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Last week I got an untold message from Pascalle Burton: “I am delighted to announce that the Bumper Poetry Issue of The Lavender Room Zine-in-a-Matchbox is here!”
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해피 빼빼로 데이!
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Image: Happy Pepero Day: 11-11-2011!
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Envoi
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This poem was published as the final editorial for Cordite Poetry Review 35: Oz–Ko, a special bilingual edition in hangul and English. The poem contains the titles (originally in hangul) of all of the poems in issue 35.2: Oz–Ko: Hanguk–Hoju. Read the original poem on the Cordite site.
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Jag är glad över att vara tillbaka i [Sverige]. Ett land som jag länge beundrat, och där min karriär som diplomat började för nästan trettio år sedan. Australien och Sverige har en lång gemensam historia. Faktum är att Australien kude ha blivit svenskt. Gustav den tredje gav order om en svensk bosättning i Västra Australien…
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Thirty Australian Poets
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Thirty Australian Poets University of Queensland Press (Brisbane, Australia: 2011) Editor: Felicity Plunkett Publisher’s website
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This handy conversion table will be of use to anyone wishing to communicate with Davey via travel agency hotlines, military comms, airport control towers or CB radio.
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@daveyinsweden’s 500th tweet!
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Image: my five-hundredth tweet. Follow @daveyinsweden on Twitter!
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Best Australian Poems 2011
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Well, the cat is out of the bag (hat tip, Jill Jones) but I’m very pleased to say that my poem ‘Cute’ (read it here, or here) has been selected for inclusion in Black Inc.’s Best Australian Poems 2011.
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Cabaret Voltage: Intermission
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While I’m in a video posting mood, here’s what could be considered a lost gem.
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In honour of St Jerome and International Translation Day, here is my first ever translation, being a version of Saskia de Jong’s poem ‘pier’, originally published in Dutch in her book resistent (Uitgeverij Prometheus, 2006). Yay for translators!