Luca Antara

2010-08-02T08:47:00.002+10:00

.Isinglass.

2010-03-17T10:25:00.005+11:00

.I'm away tomorrow for a couple of months and during that period do not anticipate posting here; I might retire the site altogether. It's been nearly six years and maybe that is long enough. My rule has always been that I only post when I feel like it; and lately I've been feeling like it less and less often. Not sure why, could be the pressure of other commitments, could be something else

2010-03-15T12:16:00.002+11:00

.A feeling of harassed sympathy arose in him, a compassion that pertained as much to Augustus as to the mass of humanity, to the ruler as well as the ruled, and it was accompanied by a responsibility no less importunate, a truly unbearable one which he himself could not account for beyond knowing that it bore small resemblance to the burden which Caesar had taken upon himself, rather that it was

2010-03-09T12:32:00.003+11:00

.nonlocality v quantum entanglement.

my day job is at night

2010-03-03T15:44:00.009+11:00

I first drove a taxi in Sydney in June 1981 . . . I think. At the time a friend in New Zealand asked me to put together a few pieces about my experiences of that kind of work for a possible book. I did write something, called A Night in the Life, which for various reasons never eventuated. I still have a photocopy of the ms somewhere but, since it was made on heat sensitive paper, last time I

2010-03-02T00:03:00.002+11:00

patience is (not) a virtue

2010-02-18T12:41:00.005+11:00

The crescent moon hangs pale on the pale blue sky over the steeple. Again. How many more times, he thought, and how many more times will I have this lugubrious thought? He had begun to suspect that he had already thrown each of the 64 hexagrams making up the I Ching on at least one occasion: as if the oracle might be exhausted. But how can you exhaust the inexhaustible? The number of different

2010-02-14T20:07:00.002+11:00

texting : an exchange

2010-02-05T15:32:00.003+11:00

.indigo dreams.violet nights.the serene intoxication of your presence .the dark pool of your absence.the silver thread that runs un / broken between us.our white silences.

2010-02-03T13:00:00.000+11:00

In the Zone.

2010-02-02T13:14:00.003+11:00

I think I now know who David Malley is, whose alias he is: thank you. I have read your book, it is a worthy addition to that equivocal corpus, that body of undead work, those irreducible traces of the zombie poet and his numerous avatars who cannot and will not be stilled or silenced, that rhizome proliferating endlessly in the underground of the mind's divigations . . ..

Days Like This

2010-01-28T16:05:00.007+11:00

Today I posted off to AUP in Auckland the corrected proofs of Steal Away Boy, the Selected Poems of David Mitchell. This book, which has consumed much of my free time and also that of my fellow editor, Nigel Roberts, over the last year or so, will be published in early April; there'll be a launch at the Gus Fisher gallery in Auckland on the evening of Tuesday 30th March. It's always a strange

2010-01-27T00:14:00.002+11:00

the liminal days

2010-01-16T00:58:00.003+11:00

In my peculiar chronology, the old year ends around the summer solstice and the new one doesn't begin until today, or perhaps tomorrow. The days between are liminal days, intercalary days . . . sometimes I feel like proclaiming an idiosyncratic Decree of Canopus but it would of course have effect only in my own private universe. Or within these four walls, whichever is the larger. So, there's

Currawong Dreaming

2010-01-14T00:51:00.002+11:00

One of the joys of not driving, as I have not been these last ten days, is sitting out on the balcony watching the evening redness fading in the west . . . well, that was then. Next thing I'm seeing this tall spindly guy dressed like an undertaker without his jacket waving both arms outrageously on the other side of the road opposite the Waverley Court and Police Station. I go up to the

2010-01-10T18:02:00.006+11:00

2010-01-09T10:43:00.004+11:00

hypnogeographies [ 7 ] [ the wedding party ]

2010-01-06T18:02:00.004+11:00