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Content warning: This piece discusses domestic violence, mental illness, and historical accounts of murder. I first came across the horrifying case of Jane Gray’s murder by her husband, John Gray, in the Sydney Morning Herald of 1870 . A story of homicidal paranoia rooted in delusions of jealousy, it occurred in the village of Calderwood, Read more
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This piece of writing of mine first appeared in Hermes: Literary magazine of the University of Sydney in 1987. I structured it upon principles I observed in iconoclastic giants such as James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Tristan Tsara, who are gestured to throughout, along with all sorts of other allusions. I was completing my PhD Read more
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Followed by his colleagues from the Peers’ School, Mushanokoji began publishing Shirakaba in 1910, which was to become the most important literary magazine of early twentieth century Japan. He had graduated from the Peers’ School, then withdrawn from Tokyo Imperial University in 1907. Shirakaba means “White Birch,” in reference to the white birches that appear Read more
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It was November 2024, the Melbourne Cup weekend, and we had four days to complete the Razor Viking circuit. After spending Friday night at Muttonwood camp, twenty kilometres north of Licola, we drove over Mt Tamboritha, along the Snowy Range, and arrived at Howitt car park. Having just met the party of nine, I kept Read more
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In Chapter Three, Jibun attends an alumni reunion, where he is offended by some of the mildly off-colour gossip shared by his former classmates. His beloved Tsuru is not far from his thoughts at any time, an object of absolute purity. I have borrowed an anonymous erotic artwork from late in the Meiji era (1868-1912), Read more
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