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12 Feb 2022
So I'm a liar. I said I would do no more self-promotion of Grimmish, and I meant it.
But then this week I discovered Beejay Silcox called it the best novel of last year; Wayne Macauley wrote me a beautiful message of solidarity; and Helen Garner (who had it foisted upon 1/2
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Michael Winkler retweeted
27 Oct 2023
The recording of my book launch, with huge thanks to
@ds228 and @shawnmooney:
youtu.be/3S1OHRnb1Vg?si=4Vm0…
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Michael Winkler retweeted
27 Oct 2023
"Publishing a story of this quality as a standalone book makes perfect aesthetic sense, though at £8.99 for 6,000 words, its publication may damage the government’s chances of halving inflation by the end of the year."
Me on Claire Keegan's new book:
thecritic.co.uk/issues/octob…
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27 Oct 2023
Remembering the time I met you, and the then-new scar; so moving that you've transmuted it into this beautiful thing.
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26 Oct 2023
To think I was at risk of going thorugh the day without reading the words 'The lady's hand tenderly patted the cadboard snout of her lover'!
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24 Oct 2023
RT @ianduhig: Takashi Miike's film based on William Carlos Williams' poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” takes a lot of liberties with the original.…
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24 Oct 2023
Sometimes Richard Brautigan feels like he's straining. But when he gets in the pocket, whoo.
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Michael Winkler retweeted
23 Oct 2023
Not so friendly reminder to media to stop saying ‘Indigenous leaders’ about anyone, ever, in any context. indigenousx.com.au/debunking…
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22 Oct 2023
Wonderful to hear the legendary @Unwise_Trousers talking about Gibbons with @ds228 and @shawnmooney.
Get it here: lulu.com/shop/james-morrison…
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Michael Winkler retweeted
22 Oct 2023
My online book launch in 15 minutes, if you're so inclined:
eventbrite.com/e/book-launch…
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Michael Winkler retweeted
20 Oct 2023
I am thankful to have received this thoughtful review of MURNANE in the Melbourne Age:
theage.com.au/culture/books/…
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Michael Winkler retweeted
16 Oct 2023
Writers the contest is over: this sentence has been written and you’ll never write a sentence this bad.
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Michael Winkler retweeted
16 Oct 2023
Every time we see Dr Andrea Edel from @heidelberg_de we gift a book of poetry we have read and loved
@evelynaraluen she read it and loved it by the end of the meeting! This photo doesn't have the bookmarks she put in it for the bits she wanted to go back to!
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Michael Winkler retweeted
16 Oct 2023
Good morning. Here is Bill Hay's 1989 lithograph 'Snobs at the bar'. Hay has been exhibiting art since completing a Diploma of Fine Art at RMIT in 1976. He once described the act of painting as "pushing coloured mud around with a hairy stick".
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Michael Winkler retweeted
15 Oct 2023
Glück: Are the two minutes over?
I love this interview with Louise Glück so much.
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Michael Winkler retweeted
15 Oct 2023
Racists love to say, whenever anyone says anything meaningful, that we’re setting the cause for reconciliation back decades… but I think ppl are starting to realise that it’s actually reconciliation that has set the cause for Indigenous rights back decades.
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Michael Winkler retweeted
15 Oct 2023
Then write ‘First Nations people are not ours’ 50 times on the whiteboard so you remember.
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