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the second ten bookish suspects

Whoops, I miscounted – I’ve read ten more books since my last post for a while and yes I am counting a poetry chapbook even though it doesn’t have an ISBN…sue me though it does have an ISSN. Anyway, here’s my next ten books that I’ve been trying to devour as making it to sixty [...]

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the first ten bookish suspects

My bad. For the two of you that actually pay attention to my book-reading habits, you can be forgiven for thinking I haven’t been reading at all. I haven’t been reading as much as I’d like because I’ve spent the last three or so months a. really, really unwell and b. apparently making up for [...]

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pretty bloody excited

Thanks to Tish, I know I am not going mad: the semi-naked Mill Park man exists, and now Facebook knows it too, so it must be true. Other more serious things are slowly starting to happen: getting published. Yep, a poem got accepted into Going Down Swinging which I’ve been submitting to for years, all [...]

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more booklists

I swear, everyone puts out their own version of their top 100 to a. make you feel bad for not having read enough b. get you to go out and buy more books Yeah, well, it works. My friend Ranjit linked up to yet another booklist on Twitter and I knew I shouldn’t have clicked [...]

the fifty-fourth casualty

I don’t have much to say about this. A treasured friend, for god knows what reason, gave me her copy of this and it sure as hell meant as much to her reading it as it did to me. I read a few poems from it on LJ good poetry communities (you laugh, but LiveJournal, [...]

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the fifty-third casualty

I once knew an histrionic poet (a proper poet too, just not a very nice person) who used to nag me about reading Anne Carson. She very literally thrust three of her books at me to read and then told her mother and housemate these horrendous lies about me and then got her mother to [...]

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the fifty-first casualty

For some weird reason, when I lived in the Philippines at the age of four, my auntie, then a teenager bought me Oliver Twist. It had taken me three months to become fluent in Tagalog (and steal the cheesy romance comics she was addicted to for my own reading pleasure) and she bought me bloody [...]

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the fiftieth casualty

Press Press currying favour, mark 2. Choosing this chapbook was an absolute no-brainer. An amazing poet powerhouse educator, Judith Rodriguez, takes a poetry workshop every semester at the CAE. If you have any interest in writing poetry, you really should go to her class. Meeting her and having the benefit of her knowledge and guidance [...]

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the forty-ninth casualty

At the beginning of the last job I had late last year, I approached a small press called Press Press to see if they were interested in publishing some of my short, short poems as a chapbook. I sent three off, all of which had been shown as part of the Overload Poetry Festival at [...]

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art student owl

Life hasn’t been all that great lately but trying to do something about that. Sadly, this means little blogging. My mate Luke introduced me to a Tumblr called Art Student Owl. Look it up, it’s funny. There’s lots of similarities between going to art school and music school, but I chose to create one that [...]

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the forty-eighth casualty

Here’s another gem that’s been on my bookcase for a few years that I decided to read. I like to read plays and poetry when commuting as normally the books aren’t thick and therefore they’re very transportable. My partner said the title sounded familiar, did the playwright pinch it off Oasis’ song? Nooooo, quite the [...]

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the forty-seventh casualty

It’s absolutely criminal that I picked this up for ten bucks at a big bookstore in the city. Criminal, I tell you! Don’t you people know who she is?! Dorothy Porter is definitely one of Australia’s most well-known poets, female or not. Sadly, she passed away a couple of years ago. She is particularly famous [...]

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the forty-sixth casualty

A good friend of mine, Chris lent this to me while I was up in Sydney at the beginning of the year and ordered me to take it, read it and send it back to him. Good friends with good books are indeed a fantastic thing. I’ve read a couple of translations of Sappho’s work [...]

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another one of those booklists!

From my friend Claire: Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. I’ll put the books I’ve read in bold. Fellow booksluts, feel free to copy and paste your list into the comments. I was actually surprised I’d [...]

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more New Yorker digests

Some notes of some of the highlights from a batch of old New Yorker issues I’ve read. This magazine is ruining my life. I don’t read anywhere near as much fiction or poetry as I used to. Dec 7, 2009 This was a pretty lacklustre issue, as far as the New Yorker goes. Can’t half [...]

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