ALEC PATRIC Some of us grow up with a sense of crisis. We have a persistent feeling that there’s a looming catastrophe that we need to respond to in whatever …
AMPERSAND AND ALICE GAGE: an interview
ALEC PATRIC Alice Gage created and edits Ampersand, a biannual literary journal deeply informed by visual art. I’ve always been interested in these intersections of text and image. Cinema’s moving images have …
AUSTRALIA'S NEW HERO OF MAGIC REALISM: an interview with Glenda Guest
In the literary world there is a propensity for prize-winning authors to be elevated – or to elevate themselves – onto a special pedestal, complete with pretentious black-and-white profile photographs …
DISTURBING THINGS: an interview with Kuzhali Manickavel
K- I can’t even talk right now. It was So. Disturbing. I can’t even tell you how disturbing it was. I am so disturbed by how disturbing it was. S- …
WHISKEY POETRY: an interview with Tara Mokhtari
ALEC PATRIC When we write a poem we often feel elated. There’s a sense of accomplishment and validation but there’s also the corrosive; the acid in poetry, and when we …
BREAKING: an interview with Rjurik Davidson
Rjurik Davidson is set to release his first collection of stories, The Library of Forgotten Books. It’s been two years waiting on a publisher to release it, but then there’s …
ASSOCIATIONS: an interview with Jeremy Balius
“Jeremy Balius is the Black Rider. He lives in Western Australia with a wife and children. From there he produces The Diamond & The Thief, a revolutionary online literary journal. …
RAISING THE DEAD: an interview with Maxine Beneba Clarke
Alec Patric: Maxine Beneba Clarke is a name that in most Aussie minds of a literary bent, conjures the image of a Slam-Champ, kick-arse performance poet. But my first experience …
SOLUTIONS: an interview with Derek Motion
A few weeks ago Overland awarded the Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets to Derek Motion, for his poem ‘Forest Hill’. That’s somewhere near Wagga Wagga. …
WAR BY CANDLELIGHT: an interview with Mark William Jackson
I seem to have already established a pattern with these interviews. A bit of a preamble and introduction, and then the interview. And so we should begin. Mark William Jackson …