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Nick Whittock: india vs australia 03/04
Nick Whittock lives in an ideal world where cricket prevails.
Vernyce Dannells: I 'member
Born in Chicago, Vernyce is a first generation, mixed
heritage triplet. Before moving to Hawaii, she alternated
between coasts most of her professional life, but remembers
a challenging adolescence spent in Milwaukee's inner city
- in the same streets/times that became the arena of
sixties riots and later, a cannibal's picnic grounds for
Jeffrey Dahmer.Posted in 18: ROOTS Comments OffDavid W. McFadden: A Very Calm Demeanour
“I tore up all the other letters today tho there is one smart kid called Dave McFadden who says: 'Now when Spring comes along, as does every year, she drabs my melting heart with her warm lily-fragrant message: of the budding eucalypti on the Riviere du Loup highway, and the greening of the grass' … ach I can't type it, but its good. So long.”
-JACK KEROUAC, FROM A LETTER TO ALLEN GINSBERG, JANUARY 4, 1960
These poems are taken from Five Star Planet (Talonbooks, 2002).Posted in 18: ROOTS Comments OffDavid W. McFadden: A Little Kindness
“I tore up all the other letters today tho there is one smart kid called Dave McFadden who says: 'Now when Spring comes along, as does every year, she drabs my melting heart with her warm lily-fragrant message: of the budding eucalypti on the Riviere du Loup highway, and the greening of the grass' … ach I can't type it, but its good. So long.”
-JACK KEROUAC, FROM A LETTER TO ALLEN GINSBERG, JANUARY 4, 1960These poems are taken from Five Star Planet (Talonbooks, 2002).
Posted in 18: ROOTS Comments OffEmily Finlay: grass
Emily Finlay is in her final year of a Bachelor of Creative Writing at the University of Wollongong, NSW. She hopes to one day complete a PHD in the study of literature. She loves poetry: sometimes reading it more than writing it. The ideal would be to combine both.
Posted in 18: ROOTS Comments OffKate Fagan: Robertson Panegyrical
Kate Fagan's The Long Moment is available from Salt Publishing.
Posted in 18: ROOTS Comments OffKate Fagan: Single Line Poem
Kate Fagan's The Long Moment is available from Salt Publishing.
Posted in 18: ROOTS Leave a commentAlan Wearne: Girls on the Avenue
Read Alan Wearne's “My Old Man's A Groovy Old Man”, from our Driver issue.
Adam Aitken: Lament: the Chicken Rice Hawker, Penang
Adam Aitken is the author of Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles (Brandl and
Schlesinger). He is now completing an unreliable (fictionalised) memoir
about his parents.Luke Beesley: N
Luke Beesley is a young Brisbane writer of poetry and short fiction. He has published widely in journals and newspapers including ABR, Southerly, The Canberra Times & The Australian. He has just completed his first manuscript of poetry with the assistance of an Arts Queensland Major Grant, and is currently studying for an M.Phil (Creative Writing) at the University of Qld. He likes cricket and jazz.
Luke Beesley: Fin de Siecle
Luke Beesley is a young Brisbane writer of poetry and short fiction. He has published widely in journals and newspapers including ABR, Southerly, The Canberra Times & The Australian. He has just completed his first manuscript of poetry with the assistance of an Arts Queensland Major Grant, and is currently studying for an M.Phil (Creative Writing) at the University of Qld. He likes cricket and jazz.
rob mclennan: credo
rob mclennan is a prolific poet, editor, publisher, etc. his 9th trade collection of poetry is “what's left” (Talonbooks, 2004), & another, “stone, book one” is forthcoming this fall with Palimpsest Press. the editor of, among others, “Groundswell: best of above/ground press, 1993-2003 (Broken Jaw Press, 2003), he currently lives in Ottawa, Canada's glorious capital. He often says things on his clever blog – www.robmclennan.blogspot.com
Posted in 18: ROOTS Comments OffJoel Deane: King Kong
Joel Deane lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for six years and innumerable earthquakes. His first novel, 'Another', won the IP Picks Award for Best Fiction and will be published by Interactive Press this year. A collection of his poetry, 'Subterranean Radio Songs', was commended for the IP Picks Award for Best Poetry.
Posted in 18: ROOTS Comments OffOuyang Yu: Hobart, 2003, Back to the Colonial Times
Ouyang Yu lives in Melbourne.
Nigel McLoughlin: Bridge of Tears
Nigel McLoughlin was born in Enniskillen in 1968. He has been twice short-listed for a Hennessy Award, placed in The Kavanagh Prize and The New Writer Poetry Prize. He holds an MA with Distinction in Creative Writing from Lancaster University and his debut collection, At The Waters' Clearing, was published in 2001 by Flambard and Black Mountain Presses and received widespread critical acclaim, a second collection, Songs For No Voices will appear from Lagan Press in July this year. He also co-edited an anthology of new Irish poets entitled Breaking The Skin which was published in 2002 by Black Mountain Press.
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