Short Prose
What I'm Reading
(Meanjin Quarterly, November 2018)
In the Time it Takes to Finish a Sandwich, We Could Build Worlds
(Southerly Journal, August 2018)
Poetry
Traffic Calming: He pulled out to the wrong side that morning
(link to poem at Cordite Poetry Review 84: Suburbia.)
Down and Across: Coming from the west, hiding the sun, a great line tows greyness
(link to journal pdf download at Meniscus Literary Journal v6 no2, 2018.)
America: In Minneapolis the water tastes of chlorine, bleached
out
(link to poem at
John Tranter's Jacket e-magazine: "International poetry and prose from
Sydney, Australia")
One
for the Prince: A madboy
fired a popgun at a prince
(link to poem at
NZ magazine Trout)
Extracts from novels
Tourism: Coolgardie -- This is
where to kiss...
The Blindman's Hat: My subbing gave [Newspaper] a
modesty, an understatedness, a mild sense of retiring
inferiority...
another: Muffy: Dust is like atmospheric
art, temporary drawings on the sky...
Snowdome: Tinnitus is the spirit of the
age...
Hardly Beach Weather: Maria
is travelling lightly. This means she is bringing the same amount of stuff as
usual, but is a relentlessly good mood.
Collaborative works
Foreign Logics (CD Rom by BC and David Bickerstaff): Dozens
of day-trip US secret servicemen sitting around the Market Square gorge themselves
on penne arabiata and pizza
Speedfactory (Collaborative
email book by BC, John Kinsella, McKenzie Wark and Terri-ann White)
Essays and articles
Copyright
in the Age of Digital Reproduction: "One has to say that most lawyers are probably
not au fait with the new reaction against Derrida's Deconstructivism.
But these things have an influence because lawyers are confronted
with certain things in real life." (interview with international
copyright lawyer Thomas Dreier)
Cambodians
in not-Australia: There are foreign
people in Australia thinking foreign thoughts. Some are locked up in
Villawood, at the detention centre...
(creative non-fiction essay about
Australia's detention of asylum-seekers, 1992.)
Race and Politics
in Australia: When John Howard's Liberal Party won the 1996
election, Howard promised that he would lead the government "for all Australians"...
(How John Howard used
the politics of race to win the 1996 Australian federal election.)
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