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 […]
Reading TMAC
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]