Clozapine Clinic — The Frater Project Archives

Mad Poets Workshop Winners: The Wollongong Writers Festival

Verity La November 18, 2016 Clozapine Clinic — The Frater Project, Poetry

Spinning By Kyra Thomsen I spin myself into a frenzy legs lurching in and out like a spider building a web unravelling my inner-silk exposing my underbelly. The tea is …

VERITY LA POETRY PODCAST Episode 4: Ben Frater

Verity La October 21, 2016 Clozapine Clinic — The Frater Project, Verity La Poetry Podcast

BEN FRATER: This month we’re celebrating the work of Ben Frater with our Clozapine Clinic Co-editors Tim Heffernan and Alise Blayney. To kick off, Tim shares his plans for the upcoming …

BEN FRATER AND THE MAD POETS OF THE GONG

Verity La October 12, 2016 Clozapine Clinic — The Frater Project, Heightened Talk

By Tim Heffernan It is significant that the poetry of Benjamin Frater is reprised for the 2016 Wollongong Writers Festival and that he will be an integral part of the …

Candles (Mark William Jackson)September 7, 2011
The first candle she lit was for Poppy. She doesn’t remember much about the old man. She remembers a baritone hum and the smell of tobacco. And she remembers being ... Read More
What Lies at the Core of a Successful Family: Nigel Featherstone’s The Beach VolcanoJanuary 30, 2015
Review by Amanda Hickey The Albury family of Sydney’s Elizabeth Bay are about money and social standing, and although they appear prickly and self-absorbed, it is the father’s eightieth birthday ... Read More
Chapter One: Early Fragments (Glenda Guest)August 21, 2010
Gordon and Dorothy She was sixteen and at a dance when she saw him. It was, she said, like the song, across a crowded room. And I did know immediately ... Read More