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 reviewed [...]
Category Archives: Other People's Words
Queensland Poetry Festival special: A.F. Harrold
August 6, 2009 – 7:53 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. A.F. Harrold is number one. Enjoy!
A.F. Harrold is an English poet and performer who does things with words that aren’t always normal. Although, that [...]
Love, sex and intimacy with Krissy Kneen, author of Affection (a LiteraryMinded ‘responsive’ interview)
August 3, 2009 – 8:12 am
Affection: A Memoir of Love, Sex and Intimacy
Text Publishing
9781921520617
August (Australia)
Prompts: LiteraryMinded
Responses: Krissy Kneen
Things that are fast/things that are slow
Motorcycles. Rollercoaster. Pick ups. Orgasms. All too fast. Slow would be nice. Slow is the ideal, something to aspire to. It all ends too quickly. Everything. And the people who have died. People of my gene pool [...]
Progressive writers
July 23, 2009 – 7:29 am
I’d like to introduce you to some of the writers who also participated in the Overland Masterclass for Progressive Writers, a week-and-a-half ago. Simonne and Maxine have written summaries of the workshop, if you want to know what it was all about. The dynamics were interesting - the ‘progressive’ themes varied greatly, and were executed differently [...]
Guest review: Sam Cooney on Mark Mordue’s Dastgah
July 21, 2009 – 8:05 am
Dastgah, Mark Mordue
Allen & Unwin (2001, Australia).
Also published overseas.
Review by Sam Cooney.
Dastgah is an account of Australian writer, journalist and editor Mark Mordue’s first trip overseas: a one-year journey through the regions of India, Nepal, the United Kingdom, Turkey and Iran, and the cities of Paris and New York. The blurb calls it ‘a refined [...]
How to Eat a Wolf by Sharanya Manivannan: a poem
July 16, 2009 – 8:17 am
Does all lust start and
end like this? Don’t get me
wrong. I loved my wolf.
I held him tethered like
a pussycat. I nursed
the rumble in his belly
with hands gentle as a burglar’s.
He lived on milk
and blood and ocean. He
had violets for his furs.
It’s just that he was
beginning to devour me.
He nuzzled me with claws,
fondled me with fangs
sharp [...]
My Extraordinary Life and Death by Doug Macleod: an extract
June 26, 2009 – 8:10 am
Doug Macleod says…
When I was asked to do a blog for The Centre for Youth Literature at The State Library of Victoria, I realised that my life is depressingly undramatic. I have never done anything that might endanger my life, save for living in St Kilda.
How could I make my life more interesting? I did what many writers [...]
Mark Twain made ‘em laugh: an edited extract from Susannah Fullerton’s Brief Encounters: Literary Travellers in Australia
June 10, 2009 – 7:59 am
The following is an edited extract from Brief Encounters: Literary Travellers in Australia by Susannah Fullerton.
Published by Picador Australia, June 2009.
Mark Twain came to Australia billed as ‘the funniest man in the world’ and Australians loved his dry humour and stories…
Their expectation was by now at fever pitch, their bodies perspiring from excitement and heat, [...]
Annette Viesseux’s Literary Space – Emerging Writers’ Festival special #5
May 19, 2009 – 7:54 am
Welcome to my desk. If it looks suspiciously like an office desk, that’s because it is one. Hardly glamorous, but certainly functional. This is part of the office the Emerging Writers’ Festival occupies in Arts House in North Melbourne until we move to our new home at the Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas.
Most of the [...]
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Queensland Poetry Festival special: Hinemoana Baker
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. Hinemoana Baker is number two. Revisit number one, A.F. Harrold, if you like. Enjoy!
Arts Queensland Poet in Residence 2009 Hinemoana Baker’s writings have featured [...]