James Stuart reviews Words and Things (Patrick Jones, ed.) in our Submerged issue. The review is part of a larger article commissioned by Cordite, available in PDF format.
The article itself features images from Words and Things, plus a selection of images from other sites/books. In the interests of accessibility we have made two versions of the article available – one (larger) for printing, and another (smaller) for reading on screen.
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Image by Marie Sierra, from Words and Things.
About David Prater
David Prater is a Dubbo-born writer and editor. His poems and stories have appeared in a range of Australian and international journals and anthologies. His debut poetry collection,
We Will Disappear, was published by Papertiger Media in 2007. His second,
Leaves of Glass, based on correspondence between Walt Whitman and Australian poet Bernard O’Dowd, was published by Puncher and Wattmann in 2013. A third as-yet-untitled collection is forthcoming in 2025. Between 2001 and 2012, David was Managing Editor of Cordite Poetry Review. He now lives and works in the Netherlands, where he is working towards a poetics of
The Mentalist.
Website:http://daveydreamnation.comFurther reading:
