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Going Down Swinging is one of Australia’s longest-running and most respected literary journals: publishing digital as well as print and audio anthologies since 1979 and producing sensational, sold-out live events.
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How Digital Culture is Making You Someone Slightly Different

When I was 25, I began to suspect I wasn’t as smart as I’d been at 20. It was a few tiny things. Where a couple of repetitions had...
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Monobrow
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Stealing from the Past
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Mardi Gras Night

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A New Kind of Family

Megan Anderson reads visual artist Tai Snaith's first picture book, The Family Hour, to her nephew.
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Good Grief: How Loss in ABC’s Glitch Leads to Magical Thinking

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Dress Young

Here’s a poem from the archives of David Prater’s brilliant blog, Davey Dreamnation. DRESS YOUNG you dress young but then you doubt it take a look at the band...
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Beards of Australia
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29-Hour Bus Ride
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Library of Congress

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Wit-Bix Psychological Analysis

Excerpt from The Bedroom Philosopher Diaries — the new book from Justin Heazlewood. It’s a casual, slightly dead-shit Wednesday in Melbourne. I’m onstage, doing my bit about ‘Australia the...
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Why Do You Write Poetry? – Frank X. Walker

Adam Ford tracks down poets and asks them the most difficult of questions: ‘Why do you write poetry?’
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Why Do You Write Poetry? – Initially NO
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PRISM International: Al Purdy Versus Earle Birney (Letter Excerpts)
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Editing from the Country

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Finding the Will

Fiona Broom tries to find the most elusive of powers.
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Why Do You Write Poetry? – Stu Hatton

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