Jason Cotter and Michael Williams (eds)
2009
9781740668217
With Readings and Writings: Forty Years in Books, there doesn’t appear to have been an overriding theme or subject limitation placed on the contributors. Instead, the writers involved, who have all had supportive associations with Readings Books & Music (Melbourne) over the years, are given free reign. The result is [...]
Tag Archives: Christos Tsiolkas
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 [...]
Crime, ghosts and danger
August 15, 2009 – 10:51 am
This song has been the soundtrack to my week. It has moved all its furniture in some already-crammed hallways of my mind and played out on repeat. Particularly the piano solo. And the force of his voice when he sings so roll up and see. And now you get to read about all my schemes and adventuring, [...]
Christos Tsiolkas + Nam Le: award winners
May 22, 2009 – 7:52 am
In honour of the recent awards won by two authors I admire very much, I thought we could revisit my interviews with them. First of all, which awards were these?
Christos Tsiolkas won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book, awarded at the Auckland Writers’ and Readers’ Festival last week, for The Slap. See the full details here. I [...]
‘Discomfort is sometimes what is most precious to me about great art’ – Christos Tsiolkas on The Slap
January 29, 2009 – 8:08 am
Note: This review/interview is uncensored and contains swearing.
The Slap is a novel that grabs you by your tender spots, squeezes, and doesn’t let go. It’s yelling, not at you, but in general frustration, at the edge of a cliff, at the end of the world. The end of the world might be Australia. An Australian [...]
Story To… and Random Stuff
November 20, 2008 – 7:57 am
I have a wee poem ‘Tinsel Dreams (Tram Moment 1)’ in the new Story To… zine, which is available in print and as a FREEBIE online. Click on Issue 2: Pod People here.
Note that I wrote this poem after going to Varuna. There is a bit of stream-of-consciousness thought ramblings about mentor Peter Bishop, and [...]
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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.
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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 Goldsworthy, Thomas [...]