Tag Archives: poetry
On Writing
The beginnings of a professional lunatic
I went mad in 1976. It changed my life beyond recognition. Doors closed. I lost my identity. I was so invisible in the world I walked in the shadows of others and cast none of my own. My friends around me got on with their lives and … Read more
Podcast
Podcast: Around the block
Are you a narcissist and an exhibitionist? Or just a peeping Tom? If you’re a writer, you’re probably all of the above. Or at least, psychoanalyst Edmund Bergler would have thought so. He coined the phrase ‘writer’s block’ – that dreaded affliction that interferes with productivity and … Read more
On Writing
On Writing: Fiona Wright
Apparently there’s a look to it. A kind of half-smirk, with a stare that’s a bit glazed and hazy, a tilted head. To me, it sounds like the face of a fox terrier with chewtoys on its mind. But my friend calls it the Poemface, and has … Read more
Reviews
Peering into the Lives of Others: The Life You Chose and That Chose You: The 25th UTS Writers’ Anthology
The talent pool at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is clearly impressive – a student editorial committee has chosen from more than 300 submissions to deliver a tight and scorchingly successful collection of just 35 short stories, poems, and script-writing and non-fiction pieces. No doubt the … Read more
On Writing
On Writing: LK Holt
In Killings’ On Writing column, we ask writers we admire to reflect on what and how they write. Our first contributor is LK Holt – poet, publisher at John Leonard Press and editor of the magazine Blast Poetry and Critical Writing. In Randall Jarrell’s poem ‘A Sick … Read more
Recommended Reading
Recommended Reading: Joel Deane, author of The Norseman’s Song
Welcome to the first Killings Recommended Reading post. Recommended Reading is literary voyeurism at its most gratuitous, a reader’s stickybeak. We investigate into the reading habits of writers we admire. Our first subject, Joel Deane, is a poet and journalist. His first novel, The Norseman’s Song, is … Read more
