Bernard Cohen’s writing

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)

 

Archive

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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