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Tag: books
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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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Simple
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1 min read
As usual, all it took to restore my faith in humanity was a visit to the local library.
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Leaves of Glass: it’s real!
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Seven years in the making. Trans-continental in its composition. Green as a blade of grass in its wrapping. Leaves of Glass is real.
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Smokin’ Leaves of Glass!
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I’m really glad to announce that my second full-length poetry collection, Leaves of Glass, will soon be released by smokin’ Sydney-based publisher Puncher and Wattmann. Long-term readers of this site would know that said collection has taken a few years to finalise but the wait has surely been worth it. The book, which was inspired…
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The Next Big Thang
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Poet Ivy Alvarez, whose latest book is Mortal, invited me to participate in this self-interview blog meme called The Next Big Thing, where I get to share a little more about my next book. Writers participating get to answer 8-10 questions (about their book/blog/their writing), and then tag 5 other writer friends to post their…
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From the archives: “He carried oranges”
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I have absolutely no idea what this prose fragment was supposed to be about but I do know that it’s been fifteen years or so since I cared one way or the other. I was probably reading too much Borges at the time. The good folks at Going Down Swinging have cross-posted this piece on…
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I find that my students are often much more able than I am to move easily between print and electronic media and to see the value in each. Remember that I am very much a creature of print culture and so always an alien to even the revolution in which I play a part. Like…
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U.S.S.R. (January-June 2006)
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William Gibson, Pattern Recognition Mark Davis, Gangland Dorothy Porter, What A Piece Of Work Anna Funder, Stasiland Mary Ellen Jordan, Balanda: My Year In Arnhem Land Peter Carey, Wrong About Japan Brett Dionysius, Universal Andalusia Luke Beesley, Lemon Shark Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood Nicholson Baker, Checkpoint Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog In…
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Reading Matter: July – December 2005
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Ian McEwan, Atonement Jonathan Franzen, The Twenty Seventh City Todd Swift, Monsieur Pigeon’s Best Machine Ku Sang, Eternity Today Ko Un, Ten Thousand Lives Simon Armitage, Kid Clive Hamilton & Richard Denniss, Affluenza Bruce Cumings, Korea’s Place In the Sun: A Modern History Ntozake Shange, for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow…
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OI: poewemz bii tom see
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OI: poewemz bii tom see (Cordite On Demand, 2004) Earlier this year, deciding that my life wasn’t nearly as busy as it could be, I set up an imprint for Cordite Press, known as COD, or Cordite On Demand. Its aims were pretty ambitious – basically a complete shake-up of the Australian publishing industry. While…