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O hai! My third full-length book of poems will be released in 2026 by Australian publisher Cordite Books. Stay tuned!
TRANSITION VAMPS
DAVID PRATER
My books
I’ve published two full-length poetry collections and one pamphlet via independent poetry publishers, with a third collection forthcoming in 2026.
We Will Disappear (2007)
My first poetry collection navigates the landscapes of loneliness and solitude, drawing on ten years of transformative travelogues and engaging elegies.
Morgenland (2007)
This limited edition chapbook features poems written in the Republic of Korea and Japan during an Asialink residency supported by the University of Melbourne.
Leaves of Glass (2013)
Based on correspondence between Walt Whitman and Bernard O’Dowd, my second full-length poetry collection features reimaginings of both poets’ work.
Latest posts
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Scenes from “Algae Rhythm” (2022)
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“I’ll tell you to rack off in a minute if you’re not careful.”
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Screen
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Your windowsills strewn with corpses of too-slow flies.
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Restless legs
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“He had read about this particular type of behaviour …”
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Line dancing with Matthew Rhys
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for alicia sometimes
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The Editor
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No more tracked changes — this time it’s final (.docx).
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In the Republic
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My flight had been delayed by an awkward incident during a brief stopover in Z—. One of the passengers — an older man in a crumpled suit — had been pulled from the boarding queue. Two persons, who did not look as if they belonged to airport security, searched the man’s carry-on luggage. From my…
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You’re Killing Me: An update
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So excited that I just had to share this here, too. My imaginary #Netflix series ‘You’re Killing Me’, a gritty, eight-part murder mystery based on the true story of US indie rock band #Pavement, has been name-checked on a podcast about Pavement, entitled The Pavement Conundrum! Listen in from 27:20 to 28:35 for some smooth…
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Tracer
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Even at the very end, when it seemed almost hopeless to everyone else, I still believed there was a small chance they’d make it. I fact I’d held onto that belief — stubbornly, I admit, and without logic — since the beginning of their journey. Of course, I’d had no way of knowing who they…
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“Because parenting isn’t a real career”
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I am humbled, proud, excited and just a tad braggish to announce three huge milestones in my previously unacknowledged career as a parent. First, our oldest child, who is six, started school this week, and kicked so many goals in doing so that it left a small, permanent tear in the corner of my eye.…
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10K Ultra (JK)
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Anyone who’s known me for longer than five minutes might want to sit down for this post. Today I ran a 10-kilometre race for the first time in my 49 years on this mortal coil. I’m now collapsed on the couch having applied a full bag of peas to my right knee, imbibed an ibuprofen-paracetamol…
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How to run a Swedish mile
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Anyone who’s known me for longer than five minutes might want to sit down for this post. Today I ran a 10klm race for the first time in my 49 years on this mortal coil. I’m now collapsed on the couch having applied a full bag of peas to my right knee, imbibed an ibuprofen-paracetamol…
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I’m really proud to have played a small part in helping the International Forum for the Challenges of Peace Operations put together the second edition of its groundbreaking study on leadership in UN peace operations, Considerations for Mission Leadership in UN Peace Operations. My role in the project entailed editing and bringing together six chapters…
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While the history of Dag Hammarskjöld’s Oxford lecture could fill a book, this post explores the untold stories behind three known versions of the text.
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Here’s what’s been keeping me busy for the past three months: a reissue of Dag Hammarskjöld’s 1961 Oxford lecture, ‘The International Civil Servant in Law and in Fact’. On 30 May 1961, Dag Hammarskjöld gave a lecture in Oxford about the international civil service. Now, 60 years later, the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (DHF) has reissued…