While all the attention focuesses, naturally, on our current issue and its swag of poetic riches, some readers continue to find us by plugging terms into search engines and then clicking on the results. Here are the top search strings for June 2008. We're just sorry that “les murray” tipped out “nude poet” this time round …
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About David Prater
David Prater is Cordite's managing editor. He holds a BA from the University of Sydney, an MA from the University of Melbourne and a PhD from Swinburne University of Technology. His first poetry colllection,
We Will Disappear, was published by papertiger media in 2007, and Vagabond Press published his chapbook
Morgenland in the same year. His poetry has appeared in a wide range of Australian and international journals, and he has performed his work at festivals in Australia, Japan, Bulgaria, Canada, the United States, the Netherlands and Macedonia. He has also undertaken two writers’ residencies in Seoul, Republic of Korea, and has worked extensively as a teacher, editor and researcher. He currently lives in Karlskrona, Sweden where he is undertaking post-doctoral research on electronic literature and pedagogy at Blekinge Tekniska Högskola.
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