I have uploaded our radio-play, In Black Box,” which was braodact on ABC Radio in the 1990s. You can listen. The script is a bit dated, but the production values are great. It was resurrected because James Vicary and I are planning to make a new […]
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I love Allen Ginsberg’s poem, “America.” In C10, I rework it to the conditions of Sydney in 1984 & 2022. I’ve made a few cahnges to the prose text and done line counts. It’s a pretty cool meta-poem now IMO. On Ginsberg’s America
The Birthday Party were my first favourite band. I kept going with the Bad Seeds for a long time. On 5 January 1984, I attended the first “Nick Cave: Man or Myth” concert in Sydney at the Musicians Club. Nick Cave Collector’s Hell is a great […]
Joyce set Ulysses in Dublin. The River Liffey runs right through its guts. It is his symbol for life’s “riverrun” (that’s the first word of Finnegans Wake). I set Telemachus in Sydney. I could have chosen our famous harbour or beaches as my life symbol. But […]
ANITALAFEIANE – the initials A.L. – Without sky, sun or flood / And without vanity. I have written a kind-of-elegy for Anita Lane. I had just started to write a post about a leading female character in TMAC, Ana Lafei, when Anita Lane died. I didn’t […]
“the son must repeat the journey of the father.” This is the most important statement in Telemachus. The subscripted son. The superscripted (and emboldened) Father. Confronting this trope is the challenge for both Tom Hallem and Billy Capri. I got Jess Cox of Quick Fox Editing […]
TMAC is really long. But you don’t have to read it from start to finish. It’s designed so you can jump into it anywhere you like on the free PDFs or HTMLs. Also, you can search with keywords and surf the text. This type of non-chronological […]
TMAC is shorthand for the full title of this work. It started as a convenient abbreviation when I was drafting. Then I found that sometimes the rhythm of the text worked better using ‘TMAC,’ rather than the full title. So, I started to do it as […]
There are lots of outtakes and deletions from TMAC. After all, it took almost 20 years… about the same timeframe as the Odyssey. All I can say is that Odysseus made a lot of false starts as well. I thought that loading some of these outtakes […]
The title, Telemachus, should be pronunced fast. Phonetically, it goes something like this: “Tell-em-eck-us.” At least, that’s how it sounds on YouTube. For a long time, I pronounced it all wrong as “Telly-marcus.” It slid sluggishly from the back of my palate with typically Australian nasal inflections […]