February 2012
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A Hundred Bolts of Satin by Kay Ryan - Poetry... →
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This morning's listening and reading: Parliament... →
via Poetry Archive.
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Melville House Books » The Late Lord Byron →
Something I might buy. The Neversink library is an imprint of Melville House.
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“Don’t yell at them for daydreaming. If you date a writer, you will sometimes...”
– Canada Writes - How to date a writer: Heather O’Neill.
(Via dumbfoundry poetry newsblog.)
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“I was lucky to grow up in a house full of books, lucky to be taken to the...”
– jennifer mills – blog › National Year of Reading
Writer Jennifer Mills launched Australia’s National Year of Reading the other day in Baklava, South Australia.
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“Robert Hughes once referred to Matisse’s ‘The Dance’ as one of the few wholly...”
– darkly wise, rudely great: Matisse: Drawing Life
Damon Young gave a talk at GoMA’s Matisse exhibition on the weekend. Unfortunately it has not been webcast and so we have to be content with this quote, from his blog.
Colin Dickey writes glowingly of Brian Castro’s... →
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Alison Croggon's essay on, and translations of,... →
Essay first published in UK poetry magazine Agenda. (Links to the translations follow the essay).
Dear Rilke. If he were not a great poet, he might be one of the most purely annoying figures in the literary pantheon. Few poets have been responsible for as much bilge as Rilke has: he seems to be a magnet for a certain kind of literary narcissism. His invocations to self-insight and solitude can...
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“The e-book, by eliminating all variations in the appearance and weight of the...”
– E-books Can’t Burn by Tim Parks
From the New York Review of Books blog - thanks to @textpublishing on Twitter for the link.
This is a neat tie-in with what I read yesterday in the latest Meanjin, a beautifully written essay by Ivor Indyk meditating on (among other things) these notions of...
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a pile of stuff #24
St. Kilda denizen Adrian McKinty speaks to Readings about his latest crime novel, The Cold Cold Ground, which has been reviewed very favourably by the Guardian:
What makes McKinty a cut above the rest is the quality of his prose. His driven, spat-out sentences are more accessible than James Ellroy’s edge-of-reason staccato, and he can be lyric. The sound of a riot is “the distant...
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Art Nation - William Delafield Cook - Video - ABC... →
I went to the exhibition shown in this video (link also in the title to this post) yesterday morning.
Tarrawarra Museum of Modern Art has to be one of my favourite places. Easy.
The experience of viewing this man’s work in that space was deeply reflective and calming, even on the second last viewing day when there was a gentle babble of visitors’ voices drifting down the...
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EYE SOCKET JOURNAL: Ivy Alvarez →
…has four poems.
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“…Mr Abbott showed what he didn’t know about the National Disability...”
– Bill Shorten on Tony Abbott’s Press Club Speech,
At the NDIS campaign website, everyaustraliancounts.com.au.
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Craig Raine investigates the Four Quartets, with... →
Thanks to Ivy Alvarez for the link.
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Mary Talbot and Bryan Talbot have captured Lucia... →
And it sounds (and looks) good, too:
In her graphic memoir-cum-biography, Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes, Mary M Talbot, an academic, tells Lucia’s tale in all its misery. For her, though, this interest is personal: Talbot is the daughter of the eminent Joyce scholar James S Atherton (his The Books at the Wakeis still the best guide to the literary allusions in Joyce’s final...
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World's First Magnetic Soap Could Revolutionize... →
January 2012
41 posts
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“The thing is, Mr Abbott, fixing the broken disability system we have in this...”
– Disability funding is no indulgence, Mr Abbott - The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
What a ghastly individual he is. Let’s hope the rest of the party has a conscience and a connection to the rest of the community. We will not go away, Tony A. 