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Late last year Giramondo published three collections of essays by distinguished Australian authors - Gerald Murnane's Invisible Yet Endu...

Political poem this is not a political poem I don't write political poetry about banda aceh and inappropriate tsunami aid like boxes of ...

Gifts The intricate, filigree traceries left by a wave on wet sand The round, curled, sweet shape of a shell Filled with the sea's whis...

Black Inc. November Events The Best Australian Essays 2006 edited by Drusilla Modjeska The Best Australian Stories 2006 edited by Robert Dre...

Unified Field Theory You are my unified field where a billion flowers shine like the stars and turn into butterflies. I observed your format...

Between Tolstoy walked out into the snow. Chekhov may or may not have had champagne. Sylvia Plath neatly folded a dishcloth in the oven for ...

5th Australian Poetry Festival: Between! September 1-10, 2006 The Australian Poetry Festival (APF) is a significant biennial program of sti...

Celebrated poet and ethnographer Nathaniel Tarn reads from his poetry Prizewinning novelist Steven Lang reads from his fiction The Performan...

the elephant sits the family hesitates there's a large dent in the sofa it's the place where the e...

Even for the London Sunday Times (which for mine is little more than a tabloid in tights with its legs spread), the report on German poet/no...

it is a strange bird this world whose habit is to fight itself whose left wing and right wing tear themselves bitterly apart both on the sid...

It seems Louise Adler down at MUP has raised the bar a few inches higher (who woulda thunk it after her stroke of editorial genius with Mark...

I haven't forgotten my threat to start posting excerpts from my verse novel, so poets and poetry lovers consider yourselves on notice. J...

a beginner’s guide to postmodernism don’t say book poem or story its all just text don’t talk. have a discourse you may still lecture ...

Mars Syndicate is an evolving multimedia collaboration. Visual mediums include video and live performance art. Auditory mediums include live...

ONE My family Popular convention, or fiction, asks us to judge a man by his wealth, the beautiful women and dangerous places he has frequen...

We all love a set up and last weekend the Australian Newspaper pulled off an absolute doozy. For those who don't read the Murdoch press,...

I am deeply sorry to have to announce the untimely death of one of Australia's leading sculptors, Bronwyn Oliver. Along with leading lig...

Lisa Marie Bellear from the Noonuccal people of Minjerribah (Stradbroke Island), Queensland. For those of you who were fortunate to be frie...

Fancy the idea of seeing your poetry translated into Bangla (or Begali)? Well, if so read the post below. Help Needed on an "Anthology ...