Adam Ford's Blog
November 24, 2009
When I was five I thought when a lightsaber hit you, you turned into a blanket.
The ozpo cyberweb has spent the last three weeks on tenterhooks as it anticipated the outcome of the blog war declared between poets Nathan Curnow and Derek Motion. The stakes were high – the loser had to quit their blog – and now a winner has been declared.
It seems Wagga Wagga's own Derek Motion has vanquished Ballarat boy Nathan Curnow in a clear-cut 86-81 victory, and now, as per the terms of engagement...
November 22, 2009
It's full of poems, comics and an article about saffron milkcap mushrooms. You can also read in its entirety Eric's MA thesis about Oink Oink Oink, his latest novel. Here's how Eric describes Oink Oink Oink:
The narrator of the story, Squirly Fern (SF), is of Japanese/ Australian descent; his grandfathers fought each other in World War Two and he is living with his mother in Japan. At the beginning of the story, he moves to Australia to meet his father, not realising that his father has...
November 17, 2009
November 13, 2009
On the way home from Castlemaine station after last night's launch of The Words We Found, the 21st-anniversary anthology celebrating the history of Voiceworks, I shared a taxi with a woman holding an open bourbon can on her lap. She asked what I'd been up to in Melbourne, and when I told her "a book launch" she got excited and asked to see the book.
After reading the back cover blurb out loud to me and the taxi driver she told me that the only thing to do now was to get Oprah to read the...
November 10, 2009
"Stranger, go tell the Spartans we died here obedient to their commands."
— Inscription at ThermopylaeLinger not, stranger. Shed no tear.
Go back to those who sent us here.We are the young they drafted out
To wars their folly brought about.Go tell those old men, safe in bed,
We took their orders and are dead.
Happy Remembrance Day.
