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Tag: poetry

  • Stéphane Mallarmé is dead: all praise the empty page!

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    9 min read

    Stéphane Mallarmé is dead. Long may his absence linger. Long may the horrifying abyss of the white (and black) pages confound we poets, prattlers and plagiarists. And long may we question the substance of our languages, the correspondences between organic, systemic lifeforms and the unstoppable progress of symbols: numbers, letters, marks, voids . . .…

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  • ‘Guard these moments well’: the lyrics of Chris de Burgh

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    8 min read

    We need to talk about Chris de Burgh’s lyrics.

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  • Three literary devices that really cheese me off

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    5 min read

    If I had to write a complete list of all the things creative types do that really give me the jitches, I’d be here all day. So, in my own therapeutical interests, here’s three literary devices that cheese me off no end. What cheeses you off?

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  • Leaves of Glass: it’s real!

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    3 min read

    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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    1 min read

    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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  • Between Empires: the reissue

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    2 min read

    Ten years ago, almost to the day, I spent three weeks travelling in the USA, the UK and Germany. During that time I wrote a series of poems, entitled Between Empires. While many of these poems have been published individually, the collection itself has until now remained secret.

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  • Humility Publishing

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    6 min read

    Last year I received the good news that my PhD thesis, “Bonfire of the Vanity Presses: Self-Publishing in the Field of Australian Poetry” had been accepted by Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, meaning that I could start to go around calling myself a doctor (except in emergency situations on planes). To celebrate, I’ve posted…

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  • Cordite 32: Zombie 2.0 (2010)

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    1 min read

    I’m suitably gored-out

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  • VWC, Kurungabaa, Southerly (IWD)

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    4 min read

    Things have been pretty quiet

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  • Interviewing Ko Un

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    2 min read

    One of the highlights of my second Asialink residency in Seoul in 2009 was my meeting with poet Ko Un.

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  • Good news and bad

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    2 min read

    **UPDATE** Cordite Poetry Review is now back online! The good news is that I’ve now narrowed down over 700 pages of submissions for Cordite 28: Secret Cities to just 50. The process was both fun and exhausting, although there’s a couple of pieces in there that (if I were the writer) I’d really want to…

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