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Category: Non-fiction
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My (northern) summer reads for 2024
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9 min read
One of the first things I do whenever I move to a new place (trust me, I’ve lived in enough cities, towns and villages to know what I’m talking about here) is to visit — and join — the local library. There’s something comforting and consistent about libraries the world over that grounds me. Growing…
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Postscript: 10 days in Ireland
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2 min read
Well, the roads all rose to greet me, and the days they turned on a pin.
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Preoccupations @ Petit Bain, Paris
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13 min read
A story at the interface between Australian cricket and Canadian doom rock.
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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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Stéphane Mallarmé is dead. Long may his absence linger. Long may the horrifying abyss of the white (and black) pages confound we poets, prattlers and plagiarists. And long may we question the substance of our languages, the correspondences between organic, systemic lifeforms and the unstoppable progress of symbols: numbers, letters, marks, voids . . .…
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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.