Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Friday, 10 July 2015
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Wednesday, 2 April 2014
Warning to would-be novelists (in particular)
I just started a new book. The detective is met at Sydney airport by a man wearing blue jeans and a Hawaiian shirt, with an unusually broad nose and curly dark hair. I was supposed to think Aboriginal. I thought, Magnum?!- Amy Harris (on Jo Nesbø's The Bat)
Wednesday, 14 September 2011
Press release on behalf of the Pikey Laureate
It’s my mission to irritate the hell out of the eloquent... by being a paradox that their categories can’t assimilate: the Subhuman Redneck who writes poems.- Les Murray, Australian poet
[With thanks to JM Coetzee for the heads-up.]
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