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Every corner of the multiverse
When I say “science fiction”, some people may think of socially awkward boys with pale skin, Hollywood blockbusters where characterisation…
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Two songs and two books with Gough Whitlam
Like a lot of things with politics, I came to know about Gough late. I was of a generation who…
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Immersion in the familiar
I flew north to attend the 2014 Byron Writers’ Festival in early August with some trepidation. A week earlier I’d…
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Shadows on the Wall [fiction]
This week Australian online literary journal Seizure published a piece of flash (very short) fiction by me, called Shadows on…
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The Arcade Fire, Transgender, Privilege and Voice
The new Arcade Fire video, for the song We Exist, features Andrew Garfield as a trans woman (or a man…
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Carol Jerrems, other artists and inspiration [NSFW]
As a creative, I’m always on the look out for artists that inspire me. Maybe it’s a new idea or…
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2014 Echuca Riverboats Festival
In early February I travelled down to Echuca for the Riverboats Music Festival by the banks of the Murray River.…
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London Snow
I first drafted this poem in 2003 when I was living in Wimbledon, London, five minutes walk from the fabulously beautiful Wimbledon Common.…
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Watching ‘Her’ [Review]
Literary journal Overland today published my review of the new Spike Jonze film, Her. It’s my first paid byline (closely following…