What to Think About When Publishing Trauma
July 29, 2016
What responsibilities do we have when publishing works that come from places of pain?
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What responsibilities do we have when publishing works that come from places of pain?
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Free, downloadable and totally portable ebook of the best essays, travel stories and musings from our online history.
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We catch up with ‘Essays, Letters, Reflections’ illustrator Genna Campton ahead of this Thursday’s Melbourne launch.
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In a few dozen pages, Luke Johnson demolishes the romantic Australian idea of the shearing shed. A former shearer, Luke describes a bleak, harsh world with glorious poetic certainty. Caroline Hunter’s cover is fitting complement. Here’s a small taste from the opening chapter of ‘Ringbark’,…
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It’s intriguing when a person noted for particular skills tries something altogether different. Some attempts end better than others. Andrew Denton was the first to claim he couldn’t draw, but for a love of cartoons he was willing to chance…
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Longbox: the thirty-sixth edition of Going Down Swing. Six extended works by eleven artists
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A week on from the launch of Going Down Swinging No. 35, Program Coordinator Ali Macalister-Bills sums up the night that was. It’s at about this time, when unexplained bruises darken and spread, that I look back on the launch…
Continue readingWhat goes into a GDS launch party? General manager Em Andersen reflects on the madness of party prep time as we ready ourselves for the launch of No. 35 tonight in Fitzroy. “Have we got all the tubs for drinks…
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Sydney co-editor Zoe Norton Lodge reveals what makes editing Going Down Swinging so special: arguing. It has been a seriously excellent experience to join the editing team of GDS. In the past I have dabbled in editing, including a brief…
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The 35th issue of Going Down Swinging is almost here (it’s so close!). A chockers print and audio anthology that will take you to the wrong parts of Baltimore; drag you across the silk route; breathe cured meats in your face…
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After many months of gestating, the new cover design for the new Going Down Swinging No. 35 is here. The anthology – a book and a spoken word album – will be launched in Melbourne on November 29. In the meantime,…
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Editor Katia Pase looks back on a year of Going Down Swinging and the process of fitting together an edition.
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DJ Sean M. Whelan’s notes from the launch of our digital edition, Going Down Swinging #34.
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Poetry, first of all, was and still must be, a musical form. It is speech musicked. It, to be most powerful, must reach to where speech begins, as sound, and bring the sound into full focus as highly rhythmic communication….
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With GDS Digital Edition #34 about to bring a whole new bunch of artists to our door, we got to thinking about all the people whose work has found a home in GDS’ most recent publications. Since Issue 26 Hawaiian…
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Australia Poetry’s November 2012 Edition of Sotto reviews Going Down Swinging’s No. 33. I’m counting up the number of poems in the latest edition of Going Down Swinging. Editor Geoff Lemon writes that ever since Issue 32 was put to bed,…
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Designers Elise Santangelo and Stuart Hall don’t believe in Jesus. “I believe in karma,” says Elise. “I really like dogs,” says Stuart. “I feel like I have a connection with animals. I don’t know if it has any relevance to…
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Why Angie Hart? Why Benezra? What’s a commission? All good questions, fictional internet interrogator. To start at the end, each year the GDS commission program helps create new works by a range of writers, performers, visual and multimedia artists. These…
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Each year, GDS helps create ambitious new works by writers and artists, by way of the GDS commissions program. This program sees a range of artists produce long-form pieces with a twist, created especially for upcoming issues of Going Down…
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“Hello?” “Hello, are you there?” “What?!” “Hello? I’LL CALL YOU BACK ON THE LANDLINE.” It’s Thursday night and I’m trying to talk spoken word with past Going Down Swinging editor Lisa Greenaway – but she can’t hear me. As the…
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An extract from Going Down Swinging #26 – Street Art Feature Tom Civil Miso Ghost Patrol More to be found in:
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I first met Kevin Brophy on Good Friday, 1972, when I ran away from home. He was running a coffee shop in Sydney Road, Coburg, and he allowed me to sleep on a couch there in a little cell of…
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It was 1979 and Malcolm Fraser was prime minister, having won the 1975 election. I was reading David Ireland’s A Woman of the Future and Glen Tomasetti’s Thoroughly Decent People. The 1979 budget had cut the Australia Council by more…
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