This week was again full of events, book buying, inspiration, parties, and somehow reading and writing amongst it all. Here's a bit of a round-up: Rebecca Clare Page launched her chapbook full of short-sweet gems Teacups and Birds.You can email her for a copy - rebeccaclarepage [at] hotmail [dot] com. Here's a sample ((c) Rebecca Clare … Continue reading Poetry Readings, Launches, and Parties Galore
Author: Angela Meyer (LiteraryMinded)
Literary Space – Caroline Petit
Caroline Petit says: My room is on the downstairs floor of our two-story flat in what was the old Holeproof Bathing Suit Factory. The hardwood floors are very scarred from the trolleys used to cart around the garments. I like the idea that people once worked where I sit. Just outside the door in the … Continue reading Literary Space – Caroline Petit
Matilda's Australian Litblog Snapshots
Established Australian litblog Matilda is doing a series of snapshots on Australian literary bloggers. Number seven was little ol' me. Check out the interview. And be sure to scroll down the main blog page to check out the others. Perry Middlemiss has also just announced the death of Dorothy Porter, very sad news.
The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno – a 'mood' review
Punk Planet Books, 9781933354101, 2006 (Aus, US) razor. pillow-kiss. mental patients. interior snowflakes. haunted house memory. failed masked-man. essentially bad or essentially good? the horror of a discovery. pills, lots of them. lonely echoing voices down the phone. vaporized individuals. an office. graveyard shift. mystery. solved/unsolved. missing her. stealing pink. childhood gone. … Continue reading The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno – a 'mood' review
Sunday Driver! *Shakes Fist*
Hello lovelies, not long now until Christmas! I get to go for a wonderful break (which will still include reading and blogging, don't worry) in the land of the Big Banana, Coffs Harbour. Can't wait to see my sister, my folks, my Nanna, and bestie Tania. Lots of beach time, and possibly a 'prop' party … Continue reading Sunday Driver! *Shakes Fist*
Again, the Healing Tickle (the Way Black Glitters): A Mash-Up
I've been meaning to post this for a while. This is a short story I did for the Remix My Lit project. It's a mash-up of 'Renovator's Heaven' by Cate Kennedy, 'Alchymical Romance' by Lee Battersby, 'The New Cage' by Stefan Laszczuk, and 'Beowulf in Brisbane' by Philip Neilsen. Enjoy! The man has Don Henley hair, … Continue reading Again, the Healing Tickle (the Way Black Glitters): A Mash-Up
Two Hamlets
Hamlet: A Novel, John Marsden, Text, 9781921351471, 2008 (Australia) + Hamlet (film), directed by Kenneth Branagh, 1996. John Marsden has always had a distinct ability to grasp and express adolescent experience. His Hamlet: a Novel is highly accessible for an audience familiar with heightened perceptions of desire, deception, unfairness, traps, loneliness, defiance, and existential angst. If you are familiar … Continue reading Two Hamlets
Other People's Favourite Books – Saxxon Blue on Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood
Tell us a little about yourself and what you do. I am a frustrated artist who works full time in a job that is killing me softly with its cash. What is one of your favourite books? Norwegian Wood. How do you describe this book when you recommend it to other people? Like self depreciation … Continue reading Other People's Favourite Books – Saxxon Blue on Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood
You Caught My Attention
I enjoyed this article on 'Late Bloomers' in The New Yorker. Makes me feel less rushed (for a little while). Hayden Carruth is a poet who passed away recently. Here are two poems I like: 'Agenda at 74' and 'Economics'. Cute, yes? Christmas is coming up. Books are great presents, especially for children. Literacy is … Continue reading You Caught My Attention
Firmin by Sam Savage
Sam Savage, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 9780297854586, 2008 (Aus, US/Kindle) Firmin is a sad, lonely, depressing book. An anthropomorphous rat, achingly empathetic, shares his hopeless, dreaming, doomed existence. The ‘chinless' one was born in a bookstore and suffers from ‘lexical hypertrophy' or, as he also refers to it, a kind of ‘biblio-bulimia', where he at first … Continue reading Firmin by Sam Savage
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