Category: Publications
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On ‘Once Upon A Time’
My poem Once Upon A Time has been published in the second anniversary/Kali edition of RIC Journal. I’m super happy about this for a few reasons, including but not limited to: This is published poem number two for me I got to work with the magnanimous and talented Saudamini again RIC is now an entire two Read.
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On ‘Instructions for Falling in Love’
My short story ‘Instructions for Falling in Love’ has been published in Felt: Aesthetics of Grey, a beautiful little anthology out now from Zeno Press. The story sits alongside the work of Rachael De Moravia, German Sierra and other writers I admire. With thanks to Christian. Read.
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On ‘Two Parts by Matthew Turner’
My poem Two Parts by Matthew Turner has been published in RIC Journal. Two Parts is a response to Matthew Turner’s evocative poem Redivider, Redivider, a poem that was published in RIC last month and which I read and read and wished I had written. So I wrote something by Matthew. Big thanks to Saudamini as always, Read.
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On ‘Impossible Friends’
My essay Impossible Friends has been published by the good folk at Meanjin. I use the essay to tell the stories of four writers: Kyle Coma-Thompson, Aashish Kaul, Saudamini Deo and Daniela Cascella. They are each smart and talented and good people who I only know because I write and they write and while that’s Read.
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On Gerald Murnane’s Border Districts
I had the great pleasure of reviewing Border Districts, Gerald Murnane’s latest and last novel, for the new online review and small press Splice. Thinking this’ll be my last piece on Murnane… Big thanks to Daniel for his keen editorial guidance. Read.
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On ‘The Book About the Dead Man’
My good and smart buddy Saudamini Deo has interviewed me for RIC Journal. I thought I was there to talk about my forthcoming collection, Letter to the Author of the Letter to the Father. She wanted to talk about my other book, The Book About the Dead Man. The Dead Man. The Dead Man. The Read.
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On ‘Scenes from Gerald Murnane’s Golf Club’
I wrote a piece for the Paris Review called Scenes from Gerald Murnane’s Golf Club – on the Murnane symposium last December, organised by Western Sydney University. Symposiums aren’t typical PR fodder, but this one was at a tiny golf club in Murnane’s country home-town, and was both a celebration of the writer and, quite Read.
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On ‘John’
I am delighted but saddened to have a new piece of fiction titled John in Tincture Journal – delighted that Tincture’s tireless editor Daniel Young gave the story a home, saddened because this is the journal’s final issue. The local literary culture is unquestionably poorer for it; apart from being a top guy, Dan edited Read.
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On ‘Stone Fur Skin Fish Blood’
Delighted to have a new piece of fiction titled Stone Fur Skin Fish Blood up at Fluland. It’s also been added to the Featured section on the site! The idea for this piece – a palmful of fragments coughed up by the subconscious – came to me at 4am while staying at a friend’s house in Read.
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On Fleur Jaeggy’s I Am the Brother of XX
My review of I Am the Brother of XX by Fleur Jaeggy (translated by Gina Alhadeff and published by And Other Stories + New Directions) is now up at The Lifted Brow. Jaeggy was a Schwob fan (she rewrites his life in These Possible Lives) so having this review appear a day or two after Read.
Tristan Foster 