Prize Life, Praise Life

(FIrst published as the introduction to Award-Winning Australian Writing 2012)

Praise life with broken words
—Robert Adamson, “Via Negativa”

1. THE WELL-READ LIFE
Happiness is not all it’s cracked up to be.
A happy…

Getting Over Your Self

(First published as the introduction to Sparks, an anthology of creative writing from Masters students at the University of Sydney, 2012)

MARK TREDINNICK

I HARDLY MEET a person who doesn’t think they have a book in them—who doesn’t want, or…

A peaceable revolution: the republic we have to have
(First published in Project Republic, ed Benjamin Jones and Mark McKenna, 2013)
Mark Tredinnick

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We seem to me a people more than ready to leave home. To take full imaginative possession of…

An Early Thursday Morning Writing Credo

Write what you don’t know about what you do know, James Galvin says. Write your affections, afflictions, and addictions. Write what always eludes you in what you love. Write the Beloved in the world, in yourself, in your enemy, in the dew,…

My talk “A Poet’s Guide to Climate Change” plays on Radio National tomorrow (Sunday 30 December 2012) at 9:45 am.

Here’s the link: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/ockhamsrazor/a-poet27s-guide-to-climate-change/4426198

You can read and download the transcript there; after 30 December, you can hear the talk by podcast. Assuming the poles…

In June my poem “Margaret River Sestets” was announced as the winner of this year’s Cardiff International Poetry Prize for 2012.
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http://www.literaturewales.org/news/i/141526/

The prize attracts entries from all over the world, and it carries prize money of 5000 pounds.

My…