Tag: editing
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Going Down Swinging 24: the editorial
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Like most good things in life, my stint as co-editor of Going Down Swinging, Australia’s finest literary magazine, was all too brief. This is my editorial from issue #24, which was published in print in 2006.
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covers: poems by nick whittock
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covers: poems by nick whittock (Cordite On Demand, 2004) COD’s second book, by cricket tragic and librarian Nick Whittock, was a lot of fun to make. Nick wanted the book to be shaped like the old Footrot Flats comics. Once we got this in our minds, everything else flowed naturally and what you get for…
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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…