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Compulsive Reader talks
by Magdalena Ball
Compulsive Reader's author interviews, book chat, literary discussions, readings and more. It's an audio haven for book lovers! Recent and upcoming guests include Terry Denton, Marion Halligan, Sir Ken Robinson, Emily Ballou, Sofie Laguna, Matthew Riley, John Banville, Felicity Plunkett, Mark Coker, Peter Bowerman, Eric Maisel, Ramona Koval, Tim Flannery, Carl Zimmer, Gail Jones, Jane Smiley, Frank Delaney, Ben Okri, and many more.
Episodes
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Rebecca Higgie on The Book of the After
Rebecca Higgie reads from and talks about her new book The Book of the After. We talk about such things as how the book came together, climate change and choosing 2049 as a story starting point, life and death, what remains, Guy Fawkes as a character, her main protagonists Negus and Eleanor…
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Annie Mairead Hunter on Brood Chamber
The author of Brood Chamber reads from and talks about her new poetry book. We cover such things as how the book came together and what drew Annie to poetry, some of her key themes - family ties and ancestry, letting go, ecology, Greed mythology, languages and lots more. Find a copy of Brood...
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Elizabeth Walton on How to Read a City
The author of How to Read a City, Your Place of Last Resort reads from and talks about her new poetry book. We cover such ground as her world tour for the book, climate change and bushfire, the book's title and the connection between cities and the natural world, protective spells and human...
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Kris Kneen on Rite of Spring
Kris Kneen joins us to read from and talk about their new book Rite of Spring. We talk about such things as lighthouses, Stravinsky, voices in harmony, transformation/becoming, menopause, Spring, metaphors, the more-than-human, the book's two main characters, their projects-in-hand, and lots…
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Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena Moss on Hybrid Heaven
Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena Moss joins us to read from and talk about his latest poetry book, Hybrid Heaven. We talk about the books key themes, how it came together as a collection, the nature of hybridity, the book's sonics, history, language, humour and lots more. Andrew's website:...
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Sarah Rice on Alight on all things precious
Multi-talented, multimedia Canberra-based lecturer, visual artist, philosopher and writer Sarah Rice joins us to read from and talk about her newest book Alight on all things precious. We talk about how the book came together, about the way it brings together seemingly disparate things -...
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Mandy Sayer on No Dancing in the Lift
Mandy Sayer reads from and talks about her latest book No Dancing in the Lift. We talk about such things as the book and how it came to her, the legend of her father, jazz drummer Gerry Sayer, with the reality as she cared for him through his illness and death, her mother and often violent...
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Anne Casey on Seang (Hungering)
Anne Casey drops by to read from and talk about her latest book Seang (Hungering). Anne talks about how the book came about including how she found her "girls" at the Newcastle Industrial School for Girls, pathway to PhD thesis, importance of the mother tongue (Gaeilge, which she speaks so...
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Zach Taylor on ROCKSTAR: Echoes
In this guest interview between publicist David Carriere and author Zach Taylor, Zach reads from and talks about his new book ROCKSTAR: Echoes. They talk about the genesis of the book and the broader series, the ways that Zach, a NASA Engineer, manages to squeeze in writing time (even amidst the...
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David Adès on A Blink of Time's Eye
The author of A Blink of Time's Eye reads from and talks about his most recent poetry book. We discuss how the book came together as a collection, the book's key themes like time, death, trauma, healing and the human condition, conversations between poems, readers, and selves, parenting, entropy,...
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Michael Farrell on The Victoria Principle
The author of The Victoria Principle joins us to read from and talk about his latest book. We talk about such things what drew him to fiction and why it gives him the "ick", the nature of genre and storytelling, collage, memoir, the real and the counterfeit, trickery, humour and lots more. You…
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Judith Nangala Crispín on The Dingo’s Noctuary
Judith Nangala Crispín reads from and talks about her stunning new book The Dingo's Noctuary. Purchase a copy of the book here: https://puncherandwattmann.com/product/the-dingos-noctuary/ Find out more about Judith here: https://judithcrispin.com/ Find out more about the book’s publisher, David...
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Kavita Ivy Nandan on Through the Trapdoor
The author of Through the Trapdoor reads from and talks about her new short story collection. We cover such things as how the collection came together, the interconnectivity of the stories, the title and the many trapdoors in the book, some of the key themes especially migration, memory,...
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Angela Costi on The Heart of the Advocate
Angela Costi joins us to read from and talk about her latest poetry book The Heart of the Advocate. We talk about many things including how the book came together, the hybrid nature of the book, the nexus between poetry and law, her use of language, point and counterpoint or strophe and...
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Bob Rich on The Hole in Your Life
Bob Rich joins us to read from and talk about his new book, The Hole in Your Life: Grief and Bereavement. He talks about the narrative of the book which is a combination of personal and clinical experience, about the 7 magic bullets which underpin the book, about why he defines himself as...
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Katia Ariel on Ferryman
Katia Ariel reads from and talks about her new book Ferryman: The Life and Deathwork of Ephraim Finch. We talk about her unique way of engaging with her subject, about creating biographies that are respectful, open, and true, about Ephraim's role in the community and the way in which Ariel...
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Ashley Kalagian Blunt on Cold Truth
Ashley Kalagian Blunt joins us again to read from and talk about her book Cold Truth. We talk about such things as the Winnipeg climate which is such a feature in the book, along with other aspects of the city and fun facts, the relationships between characters, about becoming the cyber…
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Paris Rosemont on Barefoot Poetess
Paris Rosemont reads from and talks about her new poetry book Barefoot Poetess . We cover such topics as how and why she began writing, the notion of poetic 'play', the balance between confession and performance, the joy of theatre and its relationship to poetry, her work-in-progress, and lots...
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Terri-ann White on Finding Theodore and Brina
Terri-ann White, founder of Upswell Publishing, reads from and talks about her own book Finding Theodore and Brina. We talk about how the book came about, how her relationship with the book and its characters have changed over time, notions of memoir, memory, writing place, on what can and can't…
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Exploring the Poetic Journey of Phillis Levin: An Anthology of Rain
In this episode, Phillis Levin, the author of six poetry collections, offers an in-depth look at her newest book, An Anthology of Rain, published by Barrow Street Press. A “poet’s poet,” Levin discusses her career, including her previous works such as Mr. Memory & Other Poems (Penguin) and her...
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Andrea Goldsmith on The Buried Life
Andrea Goldsmith reads from and talks about her. new novel The Buried Life. We talk about the delicate dance between death and life in the book, about the characters and their arcs, the importance of friendship, Mahler, cheese, rapture, and lots more. Find more about Andrea's work at:...
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Karen Pearlman on Breaking Plates
Dr Karen Pearlman, director of the new film Breaking Plates, talks about the making of her latest film, the inventive ways she engages with Cinemas First Nasty women archive, her use of dance, song, visual collage, slapstick, splicing, intertextually , feminist theory, humour, her excellent…
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Damen O'Brien on Walking the Boundary
Damen O'Brien reads from and talks about his latest poetry book Walking the Boundary. We talk about such things as the way the book came together as a collection, the joy (and horror) of wriggling creatures, inheritance, apocalypse, humour, and lots more. Find out more about Damen at his website:...
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PS Cottier and NG Hartland on The Thirty-one Legs of Vladimir Putin
PS Cottier and NG Hartland, authors of The Thirty-one Legs of Vladimir Putin, read from and talk about their new book, which won the Finlay Lloyd 20/40 publishing prize for fiction. We talk about some of the key themes in the book like identity, semblance, what's real and what isn't, the book's...
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John Kinsella on Beam of Light
John Kinsella reads from and talks about his new short story collection Beam of Light. We talk about the use of furniture in this book, the connective themes, its malevolent undercurrent, the importance and beauty of a sentient landscape, his characters and their struggles against the colonial...
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Girls on Key 10th Anniversary Zoom
This was a special zoom session of poetry to mark the 10th anniversary of Girls on Key featuring Sophia Wilson, Mikaela Nyman, Kiri Piahana-Wong, Patricia Sykes, Nancy Holland-Shroder, and open mic readings from Anna Forsyth (GoK founder), Lou Steer, and Magdalena Ball (host) Video link:...
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Sarah Temporal on Tight Bindings
Sarah Temporal is a prize-winning poet, producer, and educator who runs the well-respected regional arts initiative Poets Out Loud. She joins us to read from and talk about her debut book Tight Bindings. Visit Sarah’s website at: https://sarahtemporal.com/ Watch videos of Sarah performing and…
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Patti Miller on the newly revised version of Writing True Stories
Patti Miller joins us to read from and talk about her book Writing True Stories which has just been extensively updated and extended. She talks about what has changed in the 30+ years since she started teaching Life Writing, the impact of technology, her best tip, her own work in progress, and…
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Julia Levitina on The girl From Moscow
Julia Levitina reads from and talks about her new book The Girl From Moscow including such things as how the book came about, why fiction, how the book follows her own departure from the Soviet Union, the importance of 1983 as her setting, inherited trauma and her protagonists, antisemitism, the...
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Omar Musa on The Fullness
Omar Musa joins us to perform from and talk about his new album The Fullness. We talk about collaboration and his amazing collaborators, pushing into liminal spaces of multiple identities, leaning into grief and joy ("our lives given shape by shadows"), ego deflation, how some of the songs on The...
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Kent MacCarter on Fat Chance
Kent MacCarter joins us to read from and talk about his new poetry book Fat Chance. We talk about Kent's process, about having written the "feel bad book of the year”, his journalistic process, the nature of Gossypiboma (retained medical objects), memoir, reverse ekphrasis, and lots more. For…
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Robbie Coburn on Ghost Poetry
Robbie Coburn reads from and talks about his new book Ghost Poetry. Topics covered include the many ghosts that haunt the pages of the book, dreams and nightmares, the relationship between horses and people, subject and object, the subconscious, confessional poetry and the creative act/the...
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Marina Kamenev on Kin
The author of Kin: Family in the 21st Century reads from and talks about her new book, about the many permeations of family both nuclear and otherwise, about the book's origins, some of her key themes and challenges including such things as donor privacy versus the rights of a child to know their...
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Eugen Bacon on Serengotti
Award winning author Eugen Bacon reads from and talks about her latest book Serengotti. We discuss such things as the books themes including notions of privilege, racism, misogyny and the multiplicity of the self, the book's unique narrative voice, the protagonist Ch'anzu and other characters, on...
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Valerie Werder on Thieves
Valerie Werder reads from and talks about her award-winning debut novel Thieves. In this wide-ranging interview we talk about such things as representation, semantics, spirituality, thievery and its many iterations, cognitive dissonance, the changing subjectivity and tenses, the art and cosmetic...
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Beatriz Copello on No Salami Fairy Bread
Beatriz Copello, author of No Salami Fairy Bread drops by to read from and talk about her newest poetry book. We talk about such things as the linguistic quality of the book, its structure, overall themes including migration, memoir, feminism, coming-of-age, the use of humour, why she chose…
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Samuel Lucas Allen on CUT
Award winning filmmaker Samuel Lucas Allen talks about their new short film CUT. We talk about how the film came together as a project, the extraordinary cinematography, on working with their father, Richard James Allen (who has been on the show several times to talk about his own work), and the...
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Esther Ottaway on She Doesn't Seem Autistic
Esther Ottaway talks about and reads from her new book She Doesn't Seem Autistic. Through a number of poems, Esther talks about many of the key themes, rhythms, structures and concepts in the book, including masking, humour, her use of animals, on reclaiming clinical labels, the relationship...
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Richard James Allen on Text Messages from the Universe
Richard James Allen joins me to read from and talk about his latest book Text Messages from the Universe. We talk about many things including the book's deeply spiritual themes, its links with The Tibetan book of the Dead, the unique format of the book and how it relates to its matching film,...
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Alisa Bryce on Grounded
Soil scientist Alisa Bryce reads from and talks about her book Grounded. In this conversation we cover such things as how the book came about, Alisa's deep love of soil and both how important it is to all aspects of our lives, but also how fun and interesting it is, the importance of…
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Alan Fyfe on T
Alan Fyfe joins us to read from and talk about his latest novel T, which shortlisted for the T.A.G Hungerford Prize (Australia) and the Chaffinch Press Aware Prize (Ireland), and was recently was shortlisted in The WA Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer. Alan also reads from and discusses his...
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Ashley Kalagian Blunt on Dark Mode
Ashley Kalagian Blunt joins us to read from and talk about her new thriller Dark Mode. We talk about such things as her research, the Dark Web, her protagonist Reagan Carson, her fabulous plant store setting Voodoo Lily and dark flowers, what she's reading now, her work-in-progress (hint it's...
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Oisín Breen on Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín & Other Poems
In this wide-reading and humorous interview, Irish poet, academic and journalist Oisín Breen reads from and talks about his new poetry book Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín & Other Poems with Simon Whitby Brown. Find out more about Oisin here: https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/oisin_breen By a...
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A conversation with Meera Atkinson
Meera Atkinson reads from her book Traumata and talks about her work, the ongoing relevance of Traumata, the difficulty and the necessity of the hybrid form, on language, blood, the patriarchy, beauty and its commodification, the power of engagement with the past - personally and collectively,...
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Kateryna Kazimirova on Voices of Freedom: Contemporary Writing From Ukraine
One of the two editors of Voices of Freedom: Contemporary Writing From Ukraine reads from and talks about her new anthology. Kateryna Kazimirova talks about the project and how it came together, how she chose the 27 authors, the importance of art in wartime, the many styles of the work, on...
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Hazel Smith on Ecliptical
Poet, performer, emeritus professor, and new media artist Hazel Smith reads from and talks about her new book Ecliptical. We talk about metapoetry, multimedia, humour, eclipses, emphasis, John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara, and lots more. Visit Hazel's website here…
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Sara Kidd on The Vegan Cake Bible
Sara Kidd joins me to talk about her new cookbook The Vegan Cake Bible. We cover such things as how Sara became the vegan cake queen, why she's drawn to cake, the extensive process she went through to create a cookbook including doing all of her own photography, how she chose which cakes to...
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Bastian Fox Phelan on How to Be Between
Bastian Fox Phelan reads from and talks about their new memoir How to Be Between. We talk about such things as speaking about the self with all of its multitudes, finding a voice, gender norms, facial hair, their nature writing, motherhood, what's next and much more. Find out more at Bastian's...
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Beth Spencer on The Age of Fibs
Beth Spencer talks about and reads from her new book The Age of Fibs. Beth talks about how the book came come together, about the transformation of her work through proximity, on the incorporation of popular culture, the relationship between artefact, memory, memoir and fiction, the way identity…
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Michelle Cahill on Daisy & Woolf
Michelle Cahill, author of Daisy & Woolf, joins me at Woollahra Gallery to read from and talk about her new book, writing through Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, the burden of the canon, giving a voice to marginalised characters, literary decolonisation, the complex relationship between real life...
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Compulsive Reader's author interviews, book chat, literary discussions, readings and more. It's an audio haven for book lovers! Recent and upcoming guests include Terry Denton, Marion Halligan, Sir Ken Robinson, Emily Ballou, Sofie Laguna, Matthew Riley, John Banville, Felicity Plunkett, Mark Coker, Peter Bowerman, Eric Maisel, Ramona Koval, Tim Flannery, Carl Zimmer, Gail Jones, Jane Smiley, Frank Delaney, Ben Okri, and many more.
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