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Clipart Rumah

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Yesterday I went to a lecture by Constance Borde and Shelia Malovany-Chevallier, the translators of the new unabridged English language version of Simon de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. It was amazing to hear how this long awaited and desired new translation came about, the logistics of how one translates an 800 page text and the critical reception of the work.I own a 1988 copy of The Second Sex, as

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Henri Cartier-Bresson | France. Paris. Place de l'Europe. Gare Saint Lazare 1932 | Collection: Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, Magnum Photos. © Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum PhotosIf you are in Brisbane over the next few weeks I suggest you take some time out to go and see the Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibition that is currently on at the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG). It is a stunning exhibition

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Clipart Rumah

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Clipart Struktur Bangunan

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Clipart Rumah

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Clipart Kota

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Clipart Kartun Gedung

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Clipart Gedung Bertingkat

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Clipart Kota

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Clipart Rumah

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Clipart Bangunan

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Image creditI am working very hard on my confirmation chapter at the moment, thus why I have been out of touch with blog land. But I did just order Laurie Duggan's latest book of poetry, Allotments. Fewer and Further Press have set up a blog page for the book here, but if you are having troubles buying it like I did, email Jess Mynes ( jmynes@gmail.com) for other ways to pay. Looking forward to

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From Chantell Schott:"CALL FOR ARTISTS for the Mixed Messages: A Mail Art Project (and exhibition)The exhibition is open to Australian Artists of all agesThe Project is about presenting diverse artistic expressions in the structure of mail – theme open!Exhibition 1-25 February 2012, official opening Sunday 12 February at 2pm, The Repertory Theatre (Toowoomba)Artists are welcome to use a variety

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We spent 11 days exploring and relaxing in New Zealand on the north island. From Wellington to Napier, then Taupo, Rotorua and onto Matamata and Coromadel. We loved the scenery, the art deco buildings, Hobbiton, the museums, galleries, and the snow fields and just having some time out to sleep in, eat out and have adventures!

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Our wonderful photographer Liz has posted up some photographs from the wedding on her Lizzy C Photography blog. She has done such an amazing job at capturing the day. I can't wait to see the rest of the photographs later this month. But for a sneak peek of what is to come, click on the link!Oh, perhaps I should mention who is in the pictures over on Liz's blog? The beautiful bridesmaids are my

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 Me (before the wedding) My beloved Dylan Grant and Russell  Dave, Christina, Me, Dylan and Nathan Dave and Nathan Christina and Me Lauren and Jakeson Megan, Me and Robert Lauren and Dylan Dave and Liz Dave, Cohen and Christina Michael and Nicole Dave and Liz Nicole and Michael My Dad and Bruce Christina and Cohen Ella, Nathan and LeisaNathan, Dave, Liz, Lauren, Me, Dylan, Christina, Dave, Grant,

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Christina and I  Me and Christina (at the reception) Nathan, Russell (best man), Dylan (Groom) and Grant My Father walking me down the aisle  Cohen (page boy), Christina, Me and Lauren Dave (bridesmaid)Dylan's sister Lauren (bridesmaid) and MeIt was perfect! The weather, the location, our wonderful friends and family - it was everything I imagined and more. It was the best day; I laughed and

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Collage by ChristinaPreston Village Chapel and Manor imagesOne sleep until the wedding and everything is done (I hope)! Chapter emailed to supervisor (not quite finished), animals at the kennels and bags packed for the weekend in Toowoomba and the honeymoon. Off to the rehearsal this afternoon, followed by the rehearsal dinner tonight with all the bridal party and family. Weddings are such a

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A bunch of daggy photographs of Dylan and I over the last few years.We get married on Sunday!I have been doing all the last minute wedding things - making sure everyone knows when the rehearsal is, organising the music for the reception, double checking all bookings (vintage car, chair covers, hotels etc etc.), wearing in the wedding shoes, digging out the passports, beginning to pack for the

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 The Journalist, the Film PhD, Me and the Poet/PhDMe and my twin sister Twelve days until my wedding! Which might explain why I have been off air for a while. I just want to thank my gorgeous friends for glamming up for my Hen's night on the weekend. I had such a great night!

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Image creditThanks to City Lights for posting about these forthcoming Twentieth-century poet stamps in America. They look great and have been thinking about who I would put on a stamp - given a chance to.

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Nancy Sinatra meets Cat Power... Lana Del Rey - Video Games

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 Max Ryan Andy White Michelle Dicinoski Matt HetheringtonJulie BeveridgeWhat a great weekend of poetry. Such a great venue and so well organised. Congratulations to all involved!I saw a long list of performers on the first day including: Jacob Polley, the 2011 Arts Queensland Poet-in-Residence, Ashley Capes reading with Sheish Money on guitar and Graham Nunn on drums, the changing his life poet

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 Sandra Thibodeaux Jacob Polley Ashley Capes John Koenig Carmen KeatesDavid Stavanger, Pascalle Burton and Nathan ShepherdsonI had a wonderful time at the Queensland Poetry Festival last night and today. I thought I'd share a few photographs of some of the poets I have caught so far. The festival continues tonight and tomorrow! 

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Queensland Poetry Festival opens tonight! So look out for updates over the weekend  - if I am anywhere near a computer - if not, there will be some reflections after the weekend.I want to take my camera so I can provide visuals for those who are too far away to attend, but after hearing an installment of Pam Brown's "Complaints Department" in Melbourne recently, I am scared I might be tied to a

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I managed to catch up with the incredibly busy Chris Lynch for a quick interview. Aside from being a writer and editor, Chris is also a PhD student in Creative Writing at the University of Queensland. He is reading at the Queensland Poetry Festival this Sunday at 2:00 in the Shopfront space in the Zen Method of Bingo session. When did you start writing poetry?I wrote quite a bit of poetry as a

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Pascalle BurtonPascalle Burton is a Brisbane based poet/sonic artist and zine maker who also performs in The Stress of Leisure. Burton's Zine-in-a-Matchbox series has been shortlisted for the Golden Stapler awards this year. She also makes poetry inspired jewelry, coupling images of poets with words from their poems to create upcycled brooches and earrings, available at the Lavender Room stall in

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Eleanor Jackson: Image credit"We all know the formula for love, right?Boy meets girl, they fall in love, conflict occurs, boy loses girl, boy finds girl again, true love triumphs and they all live happily ever after.But what do you do if it’s girl meets girl? How will they know who’s meant to sweep whom off their feet? What if both parties are troubled by a dark secret? And can one be a lady

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Cindy Keong: Image courtesy of the artistWhen did you start writing poetry?Does winning a poetry prize about a shipwreck at the school fete in 1981 count??  The serious answer is I have always written, but most of it is not fit for anyone’s eyes.  It has really only been in the last two years on becoming connected to a poetry community I have taken another look at writing poetry and learning

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Image creditMy latest review for M/C Reviews is online. Thursday night I was lucky enough to get comp tickets to see Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at QPAC - it was amazing! Read the review here.

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 Fiona yesterday: tired, cold and happy.Life seems busy for everyone I know at the moment, it is a busy time of year all round, myself included. Yesterday (Sunday) I fell out of bed at the unnatural time of 6am in order to do a three plus hour drive to Ballendean near Stanthorpe with my partner Dylan. We meet up with his beautiful family there for the opening of the Scotney Nature Refuge, named

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Michelle Dicinoski: Image courtesy of the artistMichelle Dicinoski’s first poetry collection, Electricity for Beginners, was published by Clouds of Magellan in June 2011. Michelle’s poems and creative non-fiction have appeared in journals, newspapers, and anthologies including The Best Australian Poems, The Australian Literary Review, and Meanjin. After completing a PhD in creative writing at the

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Eleanor Jackson and Besty Turcot: Image courtesy of the artists"Eleanor has recently relocated to Brisbane from Melbourne, where she was a regular feature at Melbourne’s numerous poetry venues. Two-time winner of the Midsumma Poetry Out Loud slam, Eleanor has featured at the Overload Poetry and Melbourne Writers Festivals and was the producer of the Melbourne Poetry Map, a series of six audio

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Chris Lynch: Image courtesy of artist"Chris Lynch was born with twelve fingers in the jungles of PNG. He has also lived in Australia, the USA, China, and Japan. Prone to crazy ideas, he has run off and joined the army, walked the length of Japan, eloped, started Tangled Bank Press, and eaten goat testicles. Thankfully, not all at once. He blogs at www.chrislynch.com.au".Homo pedestriusTwo legs

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Cindy Keony: Image courtesy of the artistI am a Brisbane based photographer, poet and teacher.  I have recently been exploring life in Tanzania assisting with a community based education program.  I usually live in breathing distance to the Pacific Ocean which continues to inspire my work. 2010 was an exciting year with both my poetry and photos published in Page Seventeen as well as being

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John Koenig: Image courtesy of the artisti am fond of keeping secrets can yourecently published in Brisbane new voices 2would say i am a man who keeps his own counselborn in dalby town on the edge of the western downsi am particularly interested in all things emotionalin relationships - people and how they thinkthe underlying motivation for whypeople act and do the thingsthey are want to

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Image creditI am all right (aren't you?)are you crying?no, I am not crying I am very happy.but aren’t you crying over us ?no, I am happy to be here with you in this place.I’m sure they are tears?no, you are in correct. there is no water on my face. I was born without tear ducts.but they are tears for us?perhaps I am not being clear. let’s just call them onion stains or false starts. okay. so how

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Image courtesy of the artistWhen did you start writing poetry?I guess I’ve always written poetry. The last few years have included a few strange instances of bumping into people from my past lives (including you!).. one of whom was someone I went through early high school with in Tasmania in the 90’s. She reminded me that I used to make poetry zines (that she has kept to embarrass me with) so I

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Julie Beveridge: Image courtesy of the artist"Julie Beveridge is an emerging poet who lives in Brisbane (although she’s been saying that for years now – emerge already!). She is the Program and Services Manager for Queensland Writers Centre and was the Director of Queensland Poetry Festival: spoken in one strange word in 2009 and 2010. Her first collection of poetry Rock’n’Roll Tuxedo was

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 Ghostboy: Image courtesy of the artistWhen did you start writing poetry?Short answer: When does a fish first dance? When does a child first make a fist? When does the wind learn our names? Short answer: When you were five.As a performance poet, how would you describe your reading style?Explosively quiet. Menacing but sensual, like going to bed with a raincoat on. The stage is my room, you are

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Photo credit: Elleni ToumpasNicola Scholes is the author of Dear Rose (Small Change Press, 2009).  Nicola performed at Queensland Poetry Festival in 2009 and 2008, and her poems have been published in the journals The Broadkill Review (USA), Cordite, Forge (USA/UK), Hecate, Page Seventeen, Social Alternatives, Stylus, Verity La, and the books Hibiscus and Ti-Tree: Women in Queensland, and Poems

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Image creditPoetry friends, if you happen to be in Melbourne on Friday the 19th of August, stop into Collected Works bookstore for The Big Read Benefit Event to help raise money to keep Collected Works alive. It is a fantastic bookstore specialising in poetry books and run by the charming Kris Hemensley. If you can't make it, maybe give them a call next time you are looking for a specific book of

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Image credit"a man of large fortune must be in want of a wife! shut up austin nobody cares!!!!!!!!!!!"Quote taken from one of my all time favorite blogs: Bad Reviews of Good Books. Yep, it is as the title describes and you are sure to find pearls of wisdom and delight, like this:"Due to unfortunate job-related stuff, I'm currently teaching a Jane Austen novel. Doesn't matter which. I can't keep

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Image credit My review of the Queensland Theatre Company's production of The Removalists is now online at M/C Review.

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this is an Intro to a song....this is an intro to a songone yet to be sunglike a school bellthat has not rungnot for the childrenbut for the children that never werethis is for the cribfor every kid who runs awayfrom their nannythis is for our final dayeverything that comes sidewayslike carjacks, cancermud crabs & choking on friesthis is for kebabsand hummusand all the strange dipson this ride

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Ghostboy: Image courtesy of the artist"Ghostboy is the world’s only vaguely legal literary cannibal. He lives in a poet’s kidney. He likes both the page and the stage. He reads and can count backwards to six. He is a live hybrid of poetry, spoken weird theatre, & performance art. He has been a feature at many major festivals including the Brisbane Writers, Sydney Writers, Byron Bay Writers,

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I hope you have enjoyed the interview and previous poem I posted by Carmen Keates. I thought I would post one more of her poems to round off the week!FRAGMENTS ARE RETURNING My cousin Starry stitches up my eyebrowafter it explodes like alittle red rain cloudfrom Derek clocking me with his guitar. I say to Starry(talking shit through the vodka and Acriflavine) — You know us men and women,we’re all

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I love meeting strangers at uni. I met a new stranger with Carmen recently, and aside from being a fellow UQ student, he is also a musician. His song, "Gospel Song (Freedom)" - think gospel inspired rather than overtly religious - is available on itunes or the indie music site cdbaby. Strangers and their music are great.

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Carmen Leigh Keates: Image courtesy of the artistWhen did you start writing poetry?From a very young age I was actually just writing whatever came to me, and it mostly seemed to come out as poetry. I was a bit of a literature freak from about ten or eleven. Used to memorise Shakespeare and whatnot. Usual nerdy things. I think it comes from being brought up very religious and knowing how to read

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"Art Nation" has been axed! See links below to online newspaper articles about the ABC cutting/ outsourcing arts programming.http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/abc-axes-arts-division/story-e6frg996-1226106700825http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-02/abc-tv-cuts-jobs-and-programs/2821222The only thing more vile is reading some of the comments left beneath the Australian newspaper

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Image creditMy friend (and fellow PhD student) Sam just published an article in Refractory (a journal of entertainment media) called "‘Out wiv the old ay plumma?’ The Uncanny Marginalized Wastelands of Memory and Matter in David Cronenberg’s Spider". Check it out if you are into film, Freud or the movie Spider.

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Image creditOh, and with all the fun and excitement in the lead up to the Queensland Poetry Festival, don't forget about the Brisbane Writers Festival from the 7th to the 11th of September. Festival program available online now!

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Image creditTRIM YOUR NAILS   Leah wasn’t like the other girls.I usually land the sort of ladies who write to prisoners.I could get a bag of them for a dollar.But Leah —Go trim your nails, she’d say. They’re too long.What’s too long?Longer than mine.She didn’t like any talk of the band tour.She just went to the sink and broke up a lettuce.Still, in my mind, and in the pyramid of sluts, she stood

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Image creditI have been given the opportunity to be a guest blogger for the Queensland Poetry Festival (QPF) which is on in Brisbane next month. How exciting! I get to interview poets that are part of the festival and post some pictures of them, their poems and the interviews I do with them. So remember to drop by "Dada Doesn't Catch Flies" over the next few weeks leading up to QFP (26th-28th

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I won a Penguin Black Classics Subscriber only giveaway! I am a subscriber to Penguin Australia's email list and they had a competition where you had to say what your favorite Penguin Black classics is for your chance to win 10 Penguin Black Classics. My favorite was The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon, I have read it so many times over the years and it is a book that I keep returning to and

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QPF bannerHello! I have been busy writing, reading, note taking and transcribing since I got back from Melbourne. I interviewed three more poets for the PhD while I was away. So that brings the list to seven now: Laurie Duggan, Alan Wearne, Robert Adamson, John Tranter, Kris Hemensley, John A Scott and Robert Kenny. Still a few more to go!Also with the wedding only seven weeks away I am now

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Bridge Street Richmond, China Town, National Gallery of Victoria and the State LibraryI had a great time in Melbourne. Between the conference, the book launches and poetry readings, interviews with poets, visiting the Vienna Art and Design and King Tut exhibitions, and catching up with friends, it was a hectic week. Now, back to reality, more soon!

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Image I am all packed for my adventure to Melbourne tomorrow. I am heading down to the Poetry and the Contemporary Symposium, as well as the Tutankhamen Exhibition, and I have interviews lined up with three poets for my thesis. I am very excited to be meeting with Kris Hemensley, John A Scott and Robert Kenny.   

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ImageI just received an email from Penguin about their Black Classics range, now $9.95 in Australia (bargin). Clicking over to the Penguin Black Classic page I scrolled through the varied and wonderful offerings and my imagination landed on So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne  and it got me thinking about wedding readings. It might seem like a tangent, and

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image Have you come across the On the Road ebook yet? Apparently it comes with additional data like maps, audio files, commentary etc. You can read more about it at the Los Angleles Times here. I haven't downloaded it and I am not sure that I will. But I think the possibilities are exciting. I love books as tangible objects, but imagine being in school and the book you have to read comes not only

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Image Michael DransfieldIvor Indyk pointed out (at the 2011 SHARP conference that I went to in Brisbane) that Michael Dransfield is now out of print for the first time in over thirty years (though Michael Dransfield: A Retrospective selected by Kinsella [2002] can still be purchased online from UQP). Dransfield has retained something of a cult following and is referred to provocatively on an

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Images from hereI found these paper bags of paper things on etsy. Just looking at these wonderful collections of ephemera makes me want to get some scissors and glue and start making collages. I am a big fan of airmail envelopes and shipping labels, their functionality is attractive, but I like their industrial simplicity and iconic style. I also  like airmail stamps, those declaration stickers

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Today I have been looking at changes that were occurring in the 1960s in Australia. I've been piecing together different elements of the social-political landscape from that decade, and I came across this great clip for the introduction of decimal currency. I had never seen any of the advertising campagin for the 1966 currency change. It reminded me of when I was little and my Grandpa still 

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Upcycled bookends. Aren't they fantastic?They make me want to go buy some vintage cameras and super glue!from hereand hereand hereand here!

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South Coast Haiku - Laurie Dugganrain drips throughthe tin roofmissing the stereoPS. Laurie Duggan is doing a reading in London at the British Museum in conjunction with the current "Out of Australia" print exhibition. Check out his blog.Wednesday June 22nd at 1.15 pm in Room 90 where the prints are on display. Admission is free and all are welcome.PPS. My sister has featured me (well some of my

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Fantastic clip about a Francis Bacon exhibition, the exhibition has finished, but it shows you inside his studio and gives you an overview of his life and his work.

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Bohemians of the Latin Quarter arrived in the mail yesterday and I have to say it has, by far, one of the most unrelated covers I have come across. Flowers and butterflies adorn the cover of this book about Bohemians in Paris in the late 1800s. I bought this book for some background reading for my thesis. It is embarrassing to look at, not one you would want to be caught reading on the bus or

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On Saturday Dylan and I bused it over to South Brisbane with a couple of friends and met up at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) with my twin sister, her husband and their little boy to see the Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams exhibition. The seven of us explored the exhibition and then delighted in the children's section downstairs where we created surreal collages, before getting lunch at the

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I had a moment this afternoon looking through my CD collection when I realised it has been at least six months since I played a CD. Between my ipod and laptop, I haven't pulled a CD out of the draws since we moved. But it was lovely looking back over my collection and remembering songs I haven't heard for some time.Here is one that stood out. 

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George Dyer"Study for Head of George Dyer" (1967)Dyer photographStudy for George Dyer Photograph of DyerPhoto-booth portraits of Francis Bacon, George Dyer, and David Plante in Aix-en-Provence, mounted to the inside cover of a book 1966–1967. I love that Bacon worked from photographs and his paintings function in some ways as autobiographical narratives,  and I just wanted to share a few examples

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Thomas MannI have been living under a rock - again. I just found the Bad Reviews of Good Books blog through the First Tuesday Book Club page. It is wonderful and has me laughing. The latest installment of Bad Reviews on Good Books is about Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. Here are some of my favorite quotations about Mann's novella found on the blog:"I dod not like the writing. Almost entirely

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Image creditI have gotten some great emails in response to my quest to find the first mention of a "generation of 68"  in reference to Australian poetry (refer to last post); but I still don't actually have an answer. So the quest continues...On the good news front, I have organised flights and accommodation for the Deakin poetry conference next month in Melbourne. I love Melbourne and the

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Unrelated pictureI am looking for the first mention of the "new poets" as "the generation of 68". Apparently the term was first used by Thomas Shapcott in the Australian Book Review. Shapcott mentions that he used it first in an interview that I read*, and John Kinsella writes about it in the intro to The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry (2009), and Livio Dobrez mentions it in Paranassus

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Richard Packer, writing about Robert Kenny's preface to the Applestealers (1974) anthology of new poetry, argues that "His prose is the most remarkable achievement since Mein Kampf."*      Ouch.A small random sample from the first page of Mein Kampf that I clicked on:And the German counter-action was a complete failure.In the person of the man whose intellect and will made him its leader, the

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Gill Scott-Heron who passed away this month.

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Ferlinghetti City Lights Bookshop"I am the door" John 10:9AM I THE DOOR? / SIX POEMS SAY YES - John Forbes Stalin's Holidays

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Image from Bookshelf PornThe Australian Poetry Library is up and running! Such an exciting and valuable resource with poems, bios, photographs, bibliographies etc. Very useful for lovers of poetry, poets, teachers and my PhD. From the site:The Australian Poetry Library (APL) aims to promote a greater appreciation and understanding of Australian poetry by providing access to a wide range of poetic

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Image from Bookshelf PornI am currently working on a chapter regarding what has been written about the generation of 68 in the last decade. It is turning out to be harder than I thought, as many of the pivotal "recent" texts are from the 1990s (the vast majority of texts in the 68ers are from the 1970s and 80s). I am looking at how the 68ers have been located in the literary/ poetic tradition

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Brett Whitley's studio, Picasso in his studio and a garden shed studio (found here, here and here). 

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Image creditI am currently working on two chapters for the thesis and I still have transcribing to do from the interviews in Sydney and I have another interview lined with next week! I am also doing an Advanced Study Option (ASO) as part of the PhD and we are reading Pascale Casanova, James English, Pierre Bourdieu, and Franco Moretti. My desk is a mess, I am surrounded by books and photocopies,

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Wow, my sister is on Frankie magazine's website today! Congratulations Christina. 

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Okay, so you know I love notebooks and I have posted about various ones in the past (for example: diaries, travel moleskines and notemaker envy). But I also follow The Notebooks Stories blog, which regularly road tests notebooks and offers fellow notebook enthusiasts a place to share their obsessions.  Today I was excited to discover that Notebook Stories is having a give away at the moment. For

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Images from hereWhat! I missed the International Edible Book Festival  (I didn't even know there was one before today). It was on the first of April.April 1st is the birthday of French gastronome Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826), famous for his bookPhysiologie du goût, a witty meditation on food. April fools' day is also the perfect day to eat your words and play with them as the "books"

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Image creditSo if you have been around Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane lately, you have have seen this ad. When I first saw it, I thought it must be advertising for a film, or a brand or something. Surely this isn't an example of anti-graffiti advertising? Apparently it is. According to the Australian Creative website:A CATC Design School (Commercial Arts Training College) student has won the

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All images from hereAs somebody who shelves her books by their colours (I know!), and whose idea of cleaning is often more like straightening, I am loving these compulsive "Things Organized Neatly" photographs on tumbler.

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Preston Peak Chapel image creditFor those of you clicking over to my blog today from the link on my sister's A Little Bird Told Me blog; she is busy crafting away making a gift for my wedding in September. So yes, that amazing hexagon blanket is for me!

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One of the papers I saw presented at the SHARP conference was by Caroline Hamilton from the University of Melbourne called "Bound up in the past: The future uses of books". I went along worried that it might be another round of statistics about ebooks and the death of the paperback etc etc. Instead, Caroline looked at re-purposed books and what she termed "the sourdough effect". She provided

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On Thursday, Friday and Saturday I attended a Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) conference at the University of Queensland called "The Long Twentieth Century". It was fantastic. With papers presented on a whole range of interesting topics such as: censorship, university and private presses, the future uses of books, literary cities and "book towns", the Nobel

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Clip from the 1958 teen B movie High School Confidential.

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I stayed with family friends in Oak Flats, just outside of Wollongong from Friday to Sunday while I attended art exhibitions, poetry readings, caught some live music and did some sight seeing. Mr S is a visual artist, play write and retired English/ History teacher. His passions include poetry and literature, films, trains, sculpture and painting, travel and live music - to name but a few. His

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Laurie DygganAllan JefferiesKen BoltonMy Sydney adventure began at Roma Street train station, where I caught a train to the airport and flew down to Sydney. I was whisked away from the airport by a shuttle bus and dropped out the front of my hotel on George Street. The hotel is flanked on one side by a bottle shop and on the other a Catholic church. The Pensione Hotel is in an old building that

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Queen Victoria Building, Train ride to Hawksbury, Centerpoint Tower, China Town.

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