photographs: Tony Sernack

The Other Pieces

Published : Monday, October 29, 2007 | Published In: Writing - Poems

I pick up a rock on the lakeshore,
a riverstone the glacier left,
now cleft perfectly down the middle,
a notch at one end.
This is how one feels,
half a self,
bereft.
We are here,…

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Eleven-and-a-half Reasons to Unseat a Government

Published : Monday, October 29, 2007 | Published In: Writing - Essays

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If a week is a long time in politics, how long is eleven-and-a half years?

Long enough, I’d say.

Long enough, almost, to forget there is another way of governing; that holding sway is not the same thing as leading a people; that…

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Quartet For The End Of Time

Published : Monday, October 29, 2007 | Published In: Writing - Poems

I—Too much summer too close to home

Warm days in mid September.
Each year summer comes early
and each year we forget and
say what happened to the spring?
as though we ever had spring
on the sandstone…

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Cowshed Classes

Published : Sunday, February 03, 2008 | Published In: News

The first of my cowshed classes—long writing workshops held here in my Burradoo workshop—begins on 15 March. A class of eight writers will meet here every second Saturday for three months. I’m hoping the workshops will help writers develop manuscripts they already have underway. I’ll throw in some tips and…

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Calibre Essay Prize 2008

Published : Sunday, February 03, 2008 | Published In: News

The February issue of Australian Book Review announces the winners of the Calibre Essay Prize for 2008, and one of them is me. My essay “A Storm & a Teacup” shares this year’s prize with Rachel Robertson’s “Reaching One Thousand.” The prize, worth $10,000, is one of the most generous…

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Our works are our children

Published : Friday, December 21, 2007 | Published In: News
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Photo by : Nicola Trethowan

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Brief Life

Mark Tredinnick is a poet, essayist and writing teacher; he lives in Burradoo, in the highlands southwest of Sydney in Australia’s southeast. His books include The Little Red Writing Book (published in the United States and the United Kingdom as The Cambridge Essential Writing Guide), The Land’s Wild Music and…

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I pick up a rock on the lakeshore,
a riverstone the glacier left,
now cleft perfectly down the middle,

Excerpt from : The Other Pieces