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New front page, liveblogging feature added
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2 min read
Well, despite the seemingly unending flow of posts about Camp Davey it’s been pretty busy around here lately. In the Intramanet industry we talk about the back end and the front end. While you’ve no doubt been entertained by the travails of Scaramouche, the D/DN boffins have been tinkering away behind the scenes to ensure…
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Camp Davey evacuation: as it didn’t happen
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15 min read
Follow the latest developments as if they actually happened.
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Number 4 is a bald-faced lie.
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Staff enforcing quarantine also forced into quarantine.
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The posthumous biographer’s curse
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4 min read
How do you write the authorised biography of a person who does not seem to exist?
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Introducing the DNRC Records
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4 min read
When I was first approached to write the definitive biography of Davey Dreamnation—an invitation I was, obviously, more than happy to accept—I was given to understand that I would have unfettered access to Dreamnation’s personal archives, including his astonishing collection of unreleased songs; his musings in writing on the parlous state of the music industry; and his unparalleled…
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Camp Davey reopens after decade of isolation
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5 min read
“But I think it’s safe to say we are in uncharted territory here.”
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Ray
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1 min read
it’s a shame (about ray? no, just the way the sunlight hits the window’s triple-glaze revealing all your childrens’ fingerprints & you thought you’d cleaned it yesterday that pristine pane never stood a chance anyway (you mutter to yourself, leaning in to some andante (or was it al dente? never! solo piano courtesy of a…
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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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Cars
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1 min read
This poem first appeared in Jacket (#8, 1999).
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(On the Tomb of) Victor Bruce
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3 min read
This poem was commissioned by the Red Room Project in 2004.
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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?