Bernard O’Dowd: rewriting the colonial wizard of Oz
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
Leaves of Glass: the reviews!
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…
Leaves of Glass: it’s real!
Seven years in the making. Trans-continental in its composition. Green as a blade of grass in its wrapping. Leaves of Glass is real.
Smokin’ Leaves of Glass!
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…
The Next Big Thang
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…
Blackbox Manifold
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…
VWC, Kurungabaa, Southerly (IWD)
Things have been pretty quiet
Stolen Landscape With Horse
(De Kraai en Het Paard II)
“Secret Lives of the Colonial Poets”
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.