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Tag: Leaves of Glass

  • Bernard O’Dowd: rewriting the colonial wizard of Oz

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    What happens when you cross a rhyming sonnet (written on the eve of the federation of Australia) with a 21st-century, post-avant sensibility?

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  • Leaves of Glass: the reviews!

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    Happy new year, everyone! I hope your 2015 turns out to be even better than your 2014. Rather than engage in a Facecrack-style review of ‘my’ 2014—boy, didn’t that one get old quick?—I thought I’d celebrate with a review of the reviews of my book Leaves of Glass. To sum up, despite the fact that…

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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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  • Blackbox Manifold

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    I’m really pleased to say that three works from my Leaves of Glass MS – namely, ‘Cute’, ‘Rivet’ and ‘Swagman Ted’ – have found an electronic home in UK-based online journal Blackbox Manifold. I’ve almost lost count of how many of these Whitman (left) vs O’Dowd poems have now been published, but I’m starting to…

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  • VWC, Kurungabaa, Southerly (IWD)

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    Things have been pretty quiet

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  • Stolen Landscape With Horse

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    (De Kraai en Het Paard II)

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  • “Secret Lives of the Colonial Poets”

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    Secret Lives of the Colonial Poets was the original title of the collection of poems that was later published as Leaves of Glass in 2013.

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  • O’Dowd Zero

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    This is the first draft of ‘The First Letter’, a poem which later appeared in Leaves of Glass.

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