Archive for June, 2004
Friday, June 25th, 2004
New Maps of Hell
by Symon Brando
image by Rebecca Cannon
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A man shrugs off the clucking of his family and makes his way to International Departures. With the ticketing formalities over, he slumps at the bar and orders drinks.
He sits and waits.
To escape.
A wicked love gone horribly, horribly wrong. Sour times polyfill the cracks, forcing him to seek joy in […]
No Comments » - Posted in Fiction, Melbourne by Symon Brando
Friday, June 18th, 2004
The Football Factory: Kicking Lumps Out of England’s Green & Pleasant Land
THE FOOTBALL FACTORY
Jonathan Cape
ISBN 0-224-04302-1
The Football Factory, John King’s début novel, charts the lives of a group of football hooligans in present-day London, England. It has been re-issued to coincide with the release of England Away, King’s most recent book and the third part of his loose trilogy (Headhunters was the second). Although The Football […]
31 Comments » - Posted in Literature, Reviews by Simon Sellars
Saturday, June 5th, 2004
New Ways with Polystyrene
by Jane Ormond
Illustrations by Daniel New
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This is an excerpt from Cardigan Press’s recent anthology, Machines Will Not Give Change. Thanks to Cardigan Press and Jane Ormond for permission to reproduce it here. For more on Cardigan Press, see here.
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I am Cleopatra, Queen of Denial. I lie here, refusing to acknowledge it is 6am. I lie […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Fiction, Melbourne by Jane Ormond
Friday, June 4th, 2004
Enemies Within: Jill & Jeff Sparrow
“In Melbourne, the legend of the Cave Clan helped inspire a more directly political link between the drainage system and the unemployed with the celebrated Dole Army hoax” — Radical Melbourne 2, p. 136
Going underground in Melbourne Town, photo © Peter Ewer
Ever since its foundation, Melbourne has had a “wowser” reputation: stuffy, boring, conservative. […]
