Published : Sunday, May 18, 2014 | Published In: Writing -
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…
Published : Sunday, May 18, 2014 | Published In: Writing -
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…
Published : Sunday, May 18, 2014 | Published In: Writing -
A peaceable revolution: the republic we have to have
(First published in Project Republic, ed Benjamin Jones and Mark McKenna, 2013)
Mark Tredinnick
1.
We seem to me a people more than ready to leave home. To take full imaginative possession of…