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Review: Thirty Australian Poets
I completely forgot about this one, but aaaaaaaaaages back I had my review of Thirty Australian Poets, a new University of Queensland Press anthology of Australian poets who were born after 1968 and...
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Reject ALL the Poems!
Attention conservation notice: I had a bunch of poems rejected by a bunch of journals. Keywords: poetry, rejection, persistence, Antipodes, Meanjin, Overland, Wet Ink, Island, The New Yorker, Poetry,...
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Now with extra e!
No need to worry about facing out on THIS bookshelf! Long time coming, but I finally finished making the ebook versions of my novel, Man Bites Dog, and my second poetry collection, Not Quite the Man...
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Why Do You Write Poetry? – Nathan Curnow
I asked a bunch of poets the above question. I’ll keep posting them until I run out or get distracted. Nathan Curnow says: I guess the challenge/complexity of the form just seems to fit with me. It’s...
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Jutchy Ya Ya: Lorem Ipsum, Hats & Howard Jones
Here’s a couple of more-recent-than-the-ones-preceding-them issues of Jutchy Ya Ya for your perusal. Those newer to this blog might not have encountered one of these yet, so as they say in the Phantom...
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Rejected: robots, slams, questions, my daughter, beeps, cowboys, zombies,...
Recently: cordite‘s Interlocutor issue rejected that old untitled “you start to ask a question…” thing, as well as “Again!” and “After the Beep”, which I thought all suited the theme quite nicely, but...
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Why Do You Write Poetry? – Kevin Brophy
I asked a bunch of poets the above question. I’ll keep posting them until I run out or get distracted. Kevin Brophy says: Why I Write Poetry My mother prays for me. Her prayers sometimes appear in my...
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Things that I do not like to see in poems, some of which I have used in my...
Questions Rhetorical questions Epigrams Definitions quoted directly from dictionaries References to poets and/or poetry References to the poet themselves as a poet Polemic Ekphrasis that relies too...
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Things that I want to see more of in poems
(Any suggestions as to where to find the following most welcome) Robots Superheroes Dinosaurs Science Mathematics Contemporary practitioners of blank verse Robot superheroes Robot dinosaurs Hindu...
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Just hangin’
So I found myself in some pretty sweet company the other day when I was checking myself out on Google Books: No actual novels there, I notice, but it’s a fair cop I guess.
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Lisa Bellear: Beautiful Yuroke Red River Gum
Sometimes the red river gums rustled in the beginning of colonization when Wurundjeri Bunnerong Wathauring and other Kulin nations sang and danced and laughed aloud Full Text Here. For Invasion Day.
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Review: The Deep: Here Be Dragons
I’ve started doing some comic reviews for the Australian Comics Journal, a blog dedicated – as you might expect from the title – to news and reviews about Australian comics. It’s nice to be among such...
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Next Big Thing: The Face of Devastation
TL;DR: Giant robots and poetry together at last for the first time the way you demanded it. Keywords: Giant robots, Transformers, poetry, John Warwicker Word count: 1,293 words Just before Christmas I...
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Why Do You Write Poetry? Has Moved
Long-time readers might be familiar with my semi-regular blog posts wherein I put the above question to practitioners of the poetic art to find out what motivates them to practise it in the first...
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Rejected: Nyan Cats, Football, Clocks, Moments, The Number 2 & Beeps.
Four more of my poetries were rejunkted by the folks at Overland, this time “If We Detached the Hands of the Town Hall Clock From Its Internal Mechanism and Let Gravity Have Its Way”, “…and for a...
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Australian Women Writers Challenge 2012 – Completed
Belatedly, I am happy to declare that I have successfully completed the challenge that I set myself last year as part of the Australian Women Writers Challenge, to wit: to read at least 10 books...
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Why Do You Write Poetry? – Paul K. Tunis
My second instalment of WDYWP?, featuring the illustrative genius of US comicpoet Paul Tunis, author of the glorious Blind to Blue, is now available for your reading pleasure over at The Blue Corner....
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Aramis Fox Update – March 2013
One of my resolutions for 2013 was to get kickin’ with a bit more friction on my twitter novel, Aramis Fox, which will turn four years old (!) come June. Posting frequency had downturned a little bit...
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Review: Song & Error
So I’ve started reviewing poetry for Bookslut. Which is a bit squee. It’s been interesting flipping through the lists of new poetry books coming out of the US to see how their stuff compares to...
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Why Do You Write Poetry? – alicia sometimes
alicia sometimes is the latest bunny to jump into the headlights of the tricky question that I habitually put to poets and yet never deign to answer myself. Her answer went up on The Blue Corner a...
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