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Tag: writing
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Gerald Murnane on not succeeding at meditation
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2 min read
While I was still a young man, it became fashionable among some of my contemporaries to practice what they called meditation and to read books about a variety of subjects that might have been called collectively Eastern spirituality. I could never have brought myself to read any of that sort of book, but I was…
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The media frenzy in the lead-up to the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Literature each year, with groundless speculation on likely winners accompanied by breathless reporting of bookies’ odds, unconsciously skewers the practices of the “literary elite”: a fictional apparatus that only serves the purposes of those who do not read or write. The…
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(Substack) Origin Stories
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4 min read
“Enter the Dreamnation!”
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Writing the unspeakable: On parenting and poetry
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11 min read
Who are we to burden ourselves with such unrealistic expectations?
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What do you call writing that’s neither fact nor fiction, and over in a flash? Flash faction, of course! Ehm, well … whatever the terminology (microfiction, sudden fiction, prose poetry), it’s a genre or set of genres I’ve tinkered with on and off over the years. My 2005 Imaginary Cities: PC Bangs project was essentially 40-odd…
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Writing about ‘The Americans’ with Alicia Sometimes
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3 min read
It seemed that the show’s producers had spent more on wigs than they had on the script.
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“And Zen nothing turned itself inside out . . . ”
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Letters to Live Poets at fifty: sound as ever
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10 min read
“No notes are given as I can’t remember all of the sources.”
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Bernard O’Dowd: rewriting the colonial wizard of Oz
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6 min read
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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“whanging in the absence of wind”
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#firstworldproblems
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1 min read
i’m sitting here writing a poem (or at least pretending to) while a photographer shoots me with a wide-angle lens. of course it’s fake – this isn’t even my office, rather the media lab at yeonhui in north-west seoul, a thousand miles from home(s), months ago, a million species of weird- ness, like a bastardised…
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Hilary Mantel on Catholicism, reality and rebels
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2 min read
In the ideal world, all writers would have a Catholic childhood, or belong to some other religion which does the equivalent for you. Because Catholicism tells you at a very early age the world is not what you see; that beyond everything you see, and the appearance – or the accidents as they’re known –…
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Literary experimental travel: via your bookshelf
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6 min read
As any avid reader knows, the journey of the mind is the greatest voyage of all. Regardless of where you are or the state of your finances, literary experimental travel gives you a ticket to ride—even though your physical destination may be no further than your nearest bookshelf or library. Literary experimental travel gives you…