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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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(On the Tomb of) Noah Ray
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1 min read
when REM recruited you to be in “it’s the end of the world …” did they stop to think what effect that might have had on you stop to think about high school pressure or petty jealousy the ostracisation of so-called high achievers by dimwits with no future or hope & no sense of solidarity…
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The Invention of Marzipan
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16 min read
My MA (Creative Writing) thesis, a 30,000 word novella, described the invention of Marzipan in a fictional German town during a Famine in the 1400s. This paper maps its history and terrain, offering some hints as to Marzipan’s general composition and effects.
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A Brief History of Marzipan
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10 min read
I began writing the story of Marzipan: a Confection in the mid-1990s, the first results of which were published as the prose piece ‘A Brief History of Marzipan’ (New England Review, UNE) in 1999. I’ve re-posted it here for posterity. Or something.
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Levelling
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1 min read
1. returning from the graveyard to rise a level like william faulkner said i made it on a bevel 2. we first met near a pixel in eversong woods jo, our avatars dealt out some serious blows! 3. oh we fought for hours against the ironic orcs my sinister strike & your magnificent stealth 4.…
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Hourly forecast for Karlskrona (Blekinge, Sweden)
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2 min read
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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feeling after fear
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1 min read
when you could see it coming coming at you like a giant giant ball of lead or something something heavy cold & dead death contained a hint of fear fear faded & quickly passed passed to an even higher plane planet heavy cold & gone; going to some future island island where the lonely go…
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Fem kronor
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1 min read
True story, bruh.
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Happy St Lucy’s Day!
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1 min read
Today is St Lucy’s Day or, in Swedish, ‘Luciadagen’.
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i remember 제주도
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2 min read
Jeju-do is an island off the south coast of Korea (Hangul: 제주도), famous for its resorts but also for the so-called Jeju uprising of 1948–49. Gangjeong is a small village on the south coast of Jeju-do which is home to an anti-nuclear Peace Zone. The village mayor, Kang Dong Kyun, regularly protests against military activities…
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mark all as read
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1 min read
down here in the dead ideas office we mark all your thoughts as read don’t be alarm’d it’s just routine most people’s are a waste of space & friday’s pay day so we slack off just a bit (long enough for a wink long enough for you to emote a hit or a telepathic experience…
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Cordite 36: Electronica
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2 min read
Cordite Poetry Review No. 36: Electronica Poetry Editor: Jill Jones Released: 1 December 2011 Cover image: Maxine Clarke Pandora archive (NLA)
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collapse menu
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1 min read
incantations iv: I feel all my childood & its dreams in this video my father & his brothers & their seventies stereos: born into the space age watching all the menus collapse like when you plonk a person somewhere deep IN SPAAAAAACE! well, what does that make synthesisers, then – pop? billions of commenters on…
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Här kommer allihop!
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1 min read
heya cometh everyboddeeee! right out of the sleigh: purring like honey from a see-through plastic bag! & the dread, the dead night-cruise drops its beats & sings ‘la la la la la la laaaaaaa’ like a lidl lamb! hey did i dream all of that? or are we all still here, shouting ‘ship to shore’…
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Lavender Zine: in a matchbox!
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2 min read
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!”