Here’s my pile. Yes, it’s very small this week. It needs supplementing. This is why I’m including Adam’s: Wait, one of these is technically mine. I borrowed the Kim Stanley Robinson after I read his fantastic article in the Guardian, angry that science fiction is an underrated genre. Adam thumped his fist to his chest for that….
Read / September 13th, 2009
I went to the Overload Poetry Festival Slam Final on Friday. Come see how it went.
The book I’ve been devoted to this past week isn’t in the above photo. I finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy yesterday. On Fathers Day. Some might think this odd, but I found a deep sort of appropriateness in that coincidence, for it is a story based on devotion and love between a man and…
Read / September 1st, 2009
My poem “The blog of my enemy is failing” was featured yesterday over at Overland. I will be posting there occasionally over the course of the Overload Poetry Festival, talking about poetry (from the perspective of the ‘newb’ I consider myself to be) and I will also be attending some of the events. It is a…
We were ushered as a group up to the third floor, via building zones and taped-up elevators. The hallway felt heated, as did the room when we first stepped inside. It was the usual cluster of chairs, the kind with the oversized tablet-top on the right hand side designed for note taking – the sort of…
The blog of my enemy is failing and I celebrate. Gone is the fizz and dapper swagger of awards won and rankings claimed. Your Fitzgeraldean party is over. What good is precocious verve, or the generosity of ‘linky-loving’ be when even the trolls, sniffing the wounds, have left you alone for gamer prey, for other…
I know, can you believe it? I’m still pinching myself. When I first heard the news I was requested to keep it quiet, which was okay by me because I kept expecting a call back saying something like, “You’re Karen Andrews? Sorry, we thought you were Karen Andrens. Whoops our mistake. How embarrassing.” My poem “At…
Much has been said against the Productivity Commission’s report last week recommending the lifting of parallel import restrictions, thus jeopardising the Australian publishing industry and potentially the livelihood of authors. My friend and independent bookstore owner asked me to co-write a petition to our Prime Minister and she has given me permission to post these…
I’m pretty sure I need to start changing these post titles to something more appropriate like, “What books I’m borrowing late July 2009” because a great many go back unread. Flicked through, yes. Started, yes. Finished? No. Well I can finally change that this week, for I did finish David Sedaris, one of the few…
