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Could the national epidemic of somnambulism and mediocrity become an election issue? Steve Burrell set the ball rolling in last weekend’s Sy...

We're gettin' no reaction, with due apologies to this nation's Shadow Minister for the Environment. I asked for submissions rece...

The Writing & Society Research Group presents an informal symposium with poet in residence Ulrike Sandig on trends in contemporary Germa...

The Giramondo Publishing Company invites you to the launch of the new poetry collection by J.S. Harry Not finding Wittgenstein: Peter Henry ...

A Single Veil I walk. A ghost which looks like you in the fog, it is just a memory which has yet to be burned away by the dawn. The mornings...

The Stinging Fly is hosting a showcase for Ireland's various literary magazines during Listowel Writers Week, which kicks off tonight. W...

Quarterly Essay 26: His Master’s Voice By David Marr PB $14.95 John Howard has the loudest voice in Australia. He has cowed his critics, muf...

After four long years, Brentley Frazer has finally released his much anticipated follow up to "Dark Samadhi", a book I savoured bo...

I am in the process of setting up a website, but as my web designer is about to fly back to Malta for a whirlwind of avuncular advice and gr...

BURNT RUBBER AT THE DEAD ZONE Elena has a new art, her brushes this black Kawasaki Big Ninja, ZZR-1100, plus a radiation detector. Girl of s...

For reaons completely unfathomable to me, Google has decided to butcher their blogging program, and until I can find my way around the ten t...

I have withdrawn The Great Big Show from public circulation while I finalise its publication and release. I thank those people who showed ...

Please note this correction to Friday’s March & April events information. Bookings for these events at Gleebooks can only be made by cal...

Nicolas Rothwell in conversation with Murray Waldren, literary editor of The Australian newspaper. For several years now, Nicolas Rothwell h...

For the past year I have been poring over books and maps and unpublished diaries and digging deep into my troubled soul in an attempt to pie...

The Writing and Society Research Group is pleased to present the first in its 2007 seminar series - Samar Habib On Female Homosexuality in ...

THREE HOURS I have been used to adoration only at night. The quiet, the soft places of thought and response, analysis and ...

BOOK OF NUMBERS Should I find something more than a number— a name that might have been; a word that might remain once the name has left a s...

Churches of the developed world (a partly found poem) to light a candle drop any coin into the slot (more coins may be required for longer p...

Leviathan A storm, bad ideas and urges. Lightening, blinding silver-purple flashes. On the line next to the forgotten laundry, a neighbor’s ...