The Sprawl of Quality
Lucas SmithBooks and culture: temper perennis, bias Australian.
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“Art is the Tree of Life. Science is the Tree of Death”
Atrocities and Friends
I had the privilege of hearing Felix McNamara read at the most important Australian literary event of the 21st century, the New Oz reading, held at Bar Lingo in Thornbury this past August. Felix held the microphone c...
“Industry, Virtue and Literature”: California Poems
Photo from Smithsonian Institution, 1900. Cog Stones on middle shelves.
What follows is a sequence of twelve poems, some previously published, some not, about California, most often Southern California, where I was born and grew up. These...
Ernst Junger’s War as an Inner Experience
Note: This review was first published in early 2025 in the Australian print-only journal Observer & Review (Number 5)
War as an Inner Experience by Ernst Junger
First published 1922
Translated by K.J. Elliott
Anarch Press (2021)
Ernst...
Three Poems for Robinson Jeffers
Photo by Anna Williams
Poems addressed to other poets, living or dead, are always dubious, or at least somehow more dubious than poems in general. When the addressee is Robinson Jeffers, who had a dim view of mankind, to put it mildly, the...
Here It Snows In June by Eric Cyr
Happy Publication Day to Eric Cyr!
As a stablemate of Eric’s at Wiseblood, it doesn’t feel right to label what follows as a review, although I will attempt to articulate something about the quality of his excellent first book, the short st...
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My first book, Spare Us Yet and Other Stories, was published in June 2025 by Wiseblood Books. E-I-C Bonfire Books, Melbourne. Ausnaissance/New Oz Uncs
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