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Category: Essays
Long-form rants, explorations, flights of fancy.
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Writing the unspeakable: On parenting and poetry
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11 min read
Who are we to burden ourselves with such unrealistic expectations?
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The Old Invisible Sankt Olof Express
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5 min read
“Something special. Something almost hyperreal.”
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My Bloody Valentine, ‘Soon’ and the ideal song length
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13 min read
Just how long is seven minutes, anyway?
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Oasis’ Definitely Maybe and the end of indie
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11 min read
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …
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The Self in Travel Writing and the discourse of travel
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16 min read
What do you think about the discourse of travel? Is it a question of privilege? Or has the whole act of travel become mundane?
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“And Zen nothing turned itself inside out . . . ”
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Letters to Live Poets at fifty: sound as ever
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10 min read
“No notes are given as I can’t remember all of the sources.”
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Göteborg Book Fair 2019: Hanguk style
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19 min read
Göteborg Book Fair 2019 provided an opportunity to re-immerse myself in Korean literature and culture via a mini-festival of humanity.
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Bernard O’Dowd: rewriting the colonial wizard of Oz
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6 min read
What happens when you cross a rhyming sonnet (written on the eve of the federation of Australia) with a 21st-century, post-avant sensibility?
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We need to talk about Chris de Burgh’s lyrics.
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“Out of petrol”: Kraftwerk på Cirkus
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9 min read
After taking an eternity to write my review of Animal Collective live in concert, I’ve decided to turn over a new leaf and get snappy. So, without further ado, some words and pictures from last week’s Kraftwerk gig at Cirkus in Stockholm.
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Animal Collective live in Leuven and Stockholm
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12 min read
Documenting my Animal Collective journey, from 2008 to 2012.
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Poem Communities
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3 min read
Growing up in the 1980s in rural Australia, I immersed myself in two passions: reading books and playing sport. I was never much one for football or cricket, preferring instead cross-country running, endless laps of the pool and, perhaps most vitally, tennis.
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Chris de Burgh: Crusader (1979)
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5 min read
Eagle-eyed readers would already be aware of my previous tutorial, wherein I demonstrated the art of writing a one hundie, two hundie, three hundie and therefore five hundie record review. In this tutorial, using the ‘find and replace’ function, I show how this template can be used to write a review of any other band…