Friday 28/8 Debut With Style was chaired by Mr McSweeney’s, Eli Horowitz, and on the panel were Evie Wyld, Reif Larsen, Hitomi Kanehara (pictured below) and Lisa Unger. All had a different experience of ‘debuting’. Larsen had a ‘burning desire’ to write The Collected Works of TS Spivetand the publication was almost a bonus. Unger wrote [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Melbourne Writers Festival 2009 diary part five: words like triangles (a further experiment in the confessional)
August 25, 2009 – 8:31 pm
This post is a creative, experimental mash-up of personal experience plus one of the poems Bernhard Schlink read on Sunday 23 August in RMIT Capitol Theatre, in a session called ‘Pleasure and Pain: Poetry and the Body’ at Melbourne Writers Festival. The poem is called ‘Ballad of the Outer Life’ or ‘Ballade des auBeren Lebens’, and is by [...]
Melbourne Writers Festival 2009 diary part four: finding meaning in the media
August 23, 2009 – 1:10 pm
…in which the audience gasps audibly at the mention of Twitter! Official festival blogger Estelle and I are aptly blogging this morning’s session laptop by laptop, sandwich by sandwich, in a cafe overlooking one of the festival venues. Jeff Sparrow spoke to Margaret Simons about Finding Meaning in the Media. Simons is a fellow Crikey blogger, and [...]
Melbourne Writers Festival 2009 diary part three: future cities, beautiful rhythms and a literal ending
August 23, 2009 – 9:56 am
‘I just blogged’ I said to my friends when I ran into them, flustered, between sessions. Chris Flynn looked at me and said ‘that sounds dirty’, like ‘I just did a blog’, ‘I just dropped one’ and other variations. And now, the word blog is RUINED for me. But I was enlightened by two things: [...]
Melbourne Writers Festival 2009 diary part two: Grenville, Michaels and the ‘engine of curiosity’
August 22, 2009 – 1:44 pm
Stories everywhere: The guy in the ACMI cafe shares my love of David Bowie, and they make a mean ham toastie. The title of the session Oranges are the Only Fruit alludes the the Orange Prize, which guests Anne Michaels and Kate Grenville have both won. Peter Clarke was a generous and intelligent chair, steering [...]
Queensland Poetry Festival special: Elizabeth Bachinsky
August 20, 2009 – 8:03 am
The Queensland Poetry Festival runs from 21 to 23 August. Graham Nunn has helped me to select three poets to feature on LiteraryMinded in the weeks leading up to the festival. Revisit number one, A.F. Harrold; or number two, Hinemoana Baker, if you like. Enjoy! Elizabeth Bachinsky is the author of three collections of poetry, Curio [...]
The real possibility of joy: an interview with Josephine Emery
August 18, 2009 – 8:03 am
Josephine Emery’s The Real Possibility of Joy: A Personal Journey from Man to Woman is released in September from Pier 9. It’s a compelling, poignant, fascinating, honest memoir. And as a writer, screenwriter and former director of the literature board at the Australia Council for the Arts, Josephine Emery really knows how to write. I [...]
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Melbourne Writers Festival 2009 diary part eight: why Australian literature?
Instead of doing this session by session (as the last two days are a blur) I’ll just write it as it comes out. * First of all, Why Australian Literature? looked at our national literature and it’s current ‘crisis’, that of globalisation and the possible ‘swamping’ of other voices and literatures. The panel featured Peter [...]