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Here, in full, is The Final Quarter, first published in The Big Issue (#570, 7 – 20 September 2018). Your local vendor may still have some back issues. (So to speak.) Leonard Cohen probably never kicked an Australian Rules football but I know what he meant when he sang “I ache in the places […]
October 11, 2015
Curious thing, creativity. Come the warmer weather narrative and story make way for free-form poetry.
May 22, 2014
The premise might be a bit thin, but I just kept going to see where the words might take me. “Hawthorn is one of the best sides in the competition and we need to bring our best footy.” Port Adelaide captain Travis Boak, ahead of the Power’s game against the Hawks. (The Age, 20 May […]
March 6, 2014
This just might be the oddest piece I’ve written in a while. Does it work? Maybe. Maybe not. Shelf life Cereal, butter, pasta, chutney, relish…The supermarket list is long. Very long. And it’s my turn to push the trolley, to walk the bright fluorescent aisles, to face shelf after shelf after shelf. It’s my turn […]
January 31, 2014
The Kick-to-Kick Association of Australia has released its fixture for 2014. It features an ever-expanding number of venues, times and players. “We have carefully considered the requests of our many members,” said a KKAA spokeswoman while marking a Sherrin in the foyer of the KKAA head office. “We believe the fixture is a fair and […]
August 29, 2013
1. We wore the beach like sand shoes. We lived where the pipes made crazy sounds, squealing like crying whales. We wore clothes indifferently and the washing flew from the crooked line, breathing like billowed sails. Sometimes bored, we flicked on the telly; Pictures rolled over and over, wave after wave. On a clear night […]
September 24, 2018
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