The Government Game

(Originally pub­lished 2010 in Stop, Drop and Roll) Come all ye young fel­lows and list’ while I tell, Of the ter­ri­ble mis­for­tune that upon me befell; Centralization they say was the name, But me, I [more]

War Crimes

(orig­i­nally pub­lished 2009 in Cottonmouth: An Anthology of New Australian Writing) They met in Saigon, at the Museum of American War Crimes. If you lis­tened to the author­i­ties they met in Ho Chi [more]

A Blues Song Just For Fighters: James Toback’s Tyson

Boxing is our most con­tro­ver­sial American sport, always, it seems, on the brink of being abol­ished. Its detrac­tors speak of it in con­tempt as a “so-called ‘sport,’” and surely their logic is [more]

Field Notes Three: All the con­ti­nents, not much about home.

“Not entirely trust­ing this page to remain attached, I shall write noth­ing of con­se­quence on it.” Trawling through eight months and six con­ti­nents worth of note­book. Words writ­ten on the top [more]

Omit Needless Awards 2008: Festive Opinion Dump

When I’m not set­ting over­stuffed boats of prose adrift on these pages, I am occa­sion­ally reminded that this thing is actu­ally meant to be a blog. As such, it is honour-bound to pay trib­ute to a few of [more]

Field Notes Two: Canadian Winters, Fragments of Buenos Aires

One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town cor­ner now and out of all sound except the dis­tant speak­ing of the voices I some­times hear a moment before sleep, that I can [more]