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27 Thursday Nov 2008

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these are some things i’ve received in the mail recently, & have been reading. i’d like to say more about them all, but i’ve been trying to get on a thesis roll / role, & saying things of any sort tends to impede that (role).

interestingly though, the books from annmarie eldon & nicholas manning were ordered from lulu at the same time (yep, i’m not even hyperlinking those things) &, there was a printing error. i received both volumes, but inside eldon’s some2 there is printed, in its entirety, a copy of manning’s novaless. right in the middle of a poem called ‘house calls and the slattern’s self-disparaging emesis’, after a line 

day checked off produces: a

there comes a page (printed upside down) with my name & some ordering information, & then novaless. it’s disconcerting. at least it was to start with. the bonus is of course that i now have both texts in one volume, & can carry them about in my bag with ease. it’s also probably a unique text. one day, depending on my global perambulations, i will no doubt get both of these poets to sign the text, & it will then be worth millions.

by the way, to read astrid’s review of how to do words with things / subtext (by patrick jones & peter o’mara) go here. that’s right, one link. my personal blog-review is insubstantial, but i do recommend getting hold of this book by two artists that really are ‘doing’ things. there’s a lot that could be said about it.

someone recently got to this blog by searching on ‘people for rendering’. that’s kinda creepy. or is it? is there some contextualisation i’m missing?

little disturbances

25 Tuesday Nov 2008

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just received my contributor’s copy of the latest southerly, a special issue on the short story.

michael wilding’s story is an interesting one. set in a writers’ centre, it features an overbearing director (more concerned with funding & reputation than anything else) who works with a criminal. naturally, a few witty writers get the better of this director & drink all the wine.

great stuff. i’m hesitant to place young wilding as a fiction writer of my standard, but, i’d say if he hones his art, he may have at least some kind of future ahead of him.

imagery

25 Tuesday Nov 2008

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toast like winter

19 Wednesday Nov 2008

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unlikely to scavenge in the near-to-distant we were

a collage of impractical gauge, this morning, breaking (don’t get

all ‘& don’t i know it’) we still have a trampoline, open the weather

again with deft put-downs, again, sped up on turbid tax benefits

meaning a dearth of plastic production preferences for this-or-that

coffee, maladaptive silk sheets fan the undergraduate course in

some country’s literature this time. that just can’t get out of bed

in the right mood: your anxious line-integrity undermined

by the underline, & it’s not just an itch with cleaning products!

(to supporting african orphans here-here noticing with our dollar)

shedding light on all those stoned moments. because it’s shrove

tuesday in some wanker’s diary at work, blasé, we’re too riddled

to speak out in defence of, else couldn’t care less

 

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sydney

16 Sunday Nov 2008

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workshop-reading

 

laurinda & i will be travelling up for the fourW launch @ gleebooks this coming saturday. & if you want to come along for some words / music / images later on in the evening, check out the flyer above.

 

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words

09 Sunday Nov 2008

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a poem of mine was commended in the page seventeen contest again this year, which is nice. to get some idea of what the launch was like you can see angela meyer reading some of her work here.

other things coming up? well there’s the fourW launches in Wagga & Sydney of course (15th & 22nd). i’m going to be there at both events, soaking up the relaxed atmosphere of not being an editor this year, & therefore not being involved in emceeing. also, i don’t mind announcing it here now, as it’s only a few days away: the winner of both Booranga Prizes for 2008 (best poetry submission & best short-story) is alicia sometimes. alicia will be in Wagga on saturday to read some of her work too. can’t wait.

finally, i guess i should talk up the launch of the next Southerly on the 28th. this is a special issue devoted to the short story, & it will feature one written by me. it’s the first story i’ve ever placed, which is cool. watch out all you writers of short-fiction, cos you know, i can do that too… alas i can’t be at this launch, but if you want to go along & pretend to be me, go for it. maybe sam twyford-moore will do it… i believe he has some involvement in this uncertainty conference… actually, what could be more uncertain than an impostor?

reading what you’ve written

03 Monday Nov 2008

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‘The thing done and dismissed has ever, at the best, for the ambitious workman, a trick of looking dead if not buried, so that he almost throbs with ecstasy when, on an anxious review, the flush of life reappears.’

– Henry James, Preface to The Awkward Age

fou

03 Monday Nov 2008

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there’s a second issue of fou up. looks really good. for some reason it is not chrome compliant, but that’s not too much of a problem.

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