Writer and past Going Down Swinging editor Jessica Friedmann reflects on birth, language, and the wavering world. I’ve lost words....
Read/Look/Listen
A selection of writing, video and audio from the Going Down Swinging collection and new material from our contributing authors.
AUDIO: Kevin Brophy reads from ‘A Small Boy’+
Last week, Professor Kevin Brophy read an excerpt from his Blue Corner piece, ‘A Small Boy: Don’t be scared to...
in a silent way+
when he finished work he saw how lovely it was to deal with the end of autumn, to walk out...
A Small Boy: Don’t be scared to be scared+
I am thinking of a small boy in the early 1960s, living in an outer suburb of Melbourne. The boy...
A Real Good Catch+
He real nice this one. Want you to meet him. This one he real good to me. I’m happy. Real...
Dress Young+
Here’s a poem from the archives of David Prater’s brilliant blog, Davey Dreamnation. DRESS YOUNG you dress young but then...
AUDIO: Excerpts from Jas H. Duke+
We’ve done some digging and have dusted off our very special 1993 tribute CD to Jas H. Duke (1939-1992), inspired...
How to get teenagers interested in poetry+
“Today,” I announce enthusiastically to a school hall full of fidgeting Year 8s, 9s and 10s, “we are going to...
Excerpt from ‘The Old Woman’s Tale’+
This is a sneak preview from our up-coming Going Down Swinging #33 from the story The Old Woman’s Tale by...
Excerpt from ‘Badass’+
This is a sneak preview from our up-coming Going Down Swinging #33 from the story Badass by Michael Trudeau. We...
Excerpt from ‘The Novel Teacher’+
This is a sneak preview from our up-coming Going Down Swinging #33 from Eric Yoshiaki Dando’s short story The Novel...
Excerpt from ‘Little Monsters’+
This is a sneak preview from our up-coming Going Down Swinging #33 from Briohny Doyle’s essay, Little Monsters. We will...
Excerpt from ‘Atlas Dharma’+
This is a sneak preview from our up-coming Going Down Swinging #33 from a collaboration between Cate Kennedy and Simon...
Braille+
It’s a father and daughter tour and we stop for some famous cliffs. A mountain valley running to the west,...
More Dark Matter+
One of our first posts at The Blue Corner was Emilie Zoe Bakers’s poem, Dark Matter, which was from a...
On the Attractions of Innocence+
We can never go back, never return. You smile as you scoop sangria from the bowl, finger my albums’ battered...
On the Radar…+
The Night’s Insomnia ‘When the angels are panting and scratching the door to come in …’ Leonard Cohen, 2012 If...
Horses+
Today there are horses bolting out of the sun, towards us in a snort of black heat. Close your eyes...
Do Not Shake The Bridge+
A long bridge of books and paper spans the gorge. You have gone ahead and vertigo is a hand clasped...
One Hundred Random Cows+
1. Start They came to him at night to begin with and that’s how it started. That’s how the whole...
Other Adventures…+
When I was Born When I was born I saw the beginning of things. I saw the tide roll in...
A Shortage of Santas+
A friend of a friend is recruiting Santas for shopping centres and says that they are having trouble finding them. ...
Sometimes Poems…+
Cold Was the Ground dark was the night Blind Willie Johnson huffs in my ears weeping into God. How easy...
The Bedroom Philosopher Tour Diary #1+
1. Excerpt from The Bedroom Philosopher Diaries — the new book from Justin Heazlewood Friday August 13. Launceston. Hotel New...
Janis Ian remembers+
photographs - watercolours of the past, but I remember cigarettes, the coffee rings of old regrets And the smell and...
The Bedroom Philosopher Tour Diary #2+
2. Excerpt from The Bedroom Philosopher Diaries — the new book from Justin Heazlewood Saturday August 14. Hobart. Brisbane Hotel....
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...
The Bedroom Philosopher Tour Diary #3+
3. Excerpt from The Bedroom Philosopher Diaries — the new book from Justin Heazlewood Saturday 14th. Hobart. Brisbane Hotel. All-Ages...
Podcast: Jive Poetic & Zoe Norton Lodge+
Subscribe in iTunes here Welcome to our first ever podcast. This episode was recorded at the launch of Edition No....
You are you speaking for when you speak not-man?+
I came to Lena Dunham, Judd Apatow and HBO’s new sitcom Girls through the controversy that surrounded it and not...
Dark Matter+
A few years ago my good friends and colleagues Alicia Sometimes, Sean M Whelan and Paul Mitchell formed Science in The Dark...
The Bedroom Philosopher Tour Diary #4+
4. Excerpt from The Bedroom Philosopher Diaries — the new book from Justin Heazlewood Sunday August 14. Burnie. Burnie Arts...
More Old Spoken Word+
And continuing my foray into old spoken word, because I’m mildly addicted to the endless reams of archived radio online,...
AUDIO: Words At War+
Now that we are re-launching our website in the year 2012, I think it befitting to dip our toes into...
AUDIO: The Rereaders Bloggers Bloom+
Rereaders July 31, 2011 In this week’s podcast, we talk about Geoff Lemon on the carbon tax, new local literary...
Video: Knitting & Short Film+
When I found this short film, I have to say I was truly inspired by it; not just by its...
Video: Rudyard Kipling Animation+
Our digital editor, Vanessa Hughes, has been working on a new series of short animations exploring the Just So Stories...
Video: Under Milk Wood+
This video was published in our inaugural digital edition in 2011, Edition No. 31. Under Milk Wood is a short...
Podcast: Editor Geoff Lemon @ The Rereaders+
Aside from talking about one of our editors a lot – which he wouldn’t want to mention, being such a...