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INTRODUCTION
This site acts as a gateway to the poetry, non-fiction (creative and academic) and experimental fiction of Ian Irvine (also writing as Ian Hobson). It also contains links and information about The Animist (the innovative literary ezine Ian edited for three years), and, occasionally, pieces of music. This is also a site for learning more about TRP (Transpersonal Relational Poetics).
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Background
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INFLUENCED BY?
Here are links to the sites of other writers, poets and creative thinkers who have been particularly inspirational to me over the years. Firstly two close friends: John Charalambous http://johncharalambous.com. and John Holton (see his newsletter Soon out of Innovative Resources Bendigo where he is Chief Editor). Secondly you might want to check out two of Australia's top new generation poets, John Kinsella and Alison Croggon. The following sites have also been inspirational recently: US poetry theorist/critic Marjorie Perloff (if you want a crash course on the Anglo-American avant garde in particular this is your site), the Fluxos Portal , Michel Houellebecq (contemporary French Novelist), Postmodern Culture (online ezine) The American Academy of Poets, Links from English 88, University of Pennsylvania , Best NZ poems 2002-2005 (I spent nine years in NZ), UBU poetics (Experimental/Avant garde US poetry), UBU Ethnopoetics (curated by Jerome Rothenberg), Sulfur (edited by Clayton Eshelman author of Hades in Manganese), Ron Silliman, Gary Snyder , Robert Duncan, Adrienne Rich and Charles Bernstein. For a fascinating psychology site upon which I base aspects of my emerging poetic visit Holotropic Breathwork.
See also the work of my friends and colleagues over the years: Justin D'Ath http://www.justindath.com ; Sara Douglass http://www.saradouglass.com and Jennifer Ley (groundbreaking US representative of the 'digital avant Garde' in poetics). Lynne Kelly (writer and aunt - kind of). I'm also fascinated by the writings of Australian academics David Tacey, Harry Oldmeadow and Sue Gillet.
Fiction writers, poets and thinkers connected to Central Victoria - or who are friends - are turning up in all kinds of national (Australian) and international publications these days. Here are some names (of friends and fellow writers/poets) to look out for: Mary Pomfret, (novelist/SS writer) Carmel Williams (SS writer/lyricist), Penny Sell (novelist), Bruce Oakman (poet/SS writer), Tru Dowling (poet/performance poet), John Snowdon (fiction writer), Miranda Aitken (poet), Pam Harvey (Young adult writer/SS writer), Graham Borrell (novelist/poet), Jennifer Melbourg (poet/creative non-fiction/fiction), Lisa Jackobson (poet/SS writer) and, of course, my partner Sue King-Smith (poet/non-fiction writing).
And if that's not enough to keep your brain busy for weeks, you can disappear completely into the aether via my links pages. See also Clayton Eshleman's poem Minor Drag (mid way down the page). Enjoy!
Works Published on the WWW since 1998 - much of this material is thus quite dated. Of particular interest among the poetry links are the Mascara and Eclectica poems. The non-fiction material has perhaps kept its agebetter.
Poetry
Mascara (2008) Aust/Asia - three poems from the Vietnamese Sequence
Eclectica (1998) US - five poems.
AuPublishing (1998) US - three poems and image on 'Birth Trauma'
Oban 06 NZEPC (2006) NZ - one poem My Precise, Precious Image. She
Kinte Space (1999) - US - poems 'Insecure Sex' and Too many Times' (Warning: early career poem). Editor's review. of the poems (very generous).
Paradigm Shift (1999) US - three 'early career poems :) '
The Rose and the Thorn (1999) US - 'Passion is a Dying Bird' (another early career poem).
Interviews and Non-Fiction
*Media and Culture Interviewon editing an internet journal (Aust.) 1998.
*Riding the Meridian (US) 2000? (issue 2 Vol. 1) roundtable discussion concerning an emerging Digital Poetics).
*Sloth, ennui and Tristitia- article (also published in Humanitas, 1998). See also another version at Paleopsych (US).
* Antigonish Review, Postmodern ennui article, issue 116, 1998.
* Extract from The Angel of Luxury and Sadness appeared in PsicoMundo (Argentina).
Short Stories and Anecdotal Stories
* Southern Ocean Review (2008) NZ - Anecdotal story.
* Cougar Webworks (Alternative Culture Magazine) - Canada 1998. 'The Cyber Editor: Musings on a Citizen of the World'
* Southern Ocean Review (NZ) issue 12 - Theresa Jones
Links to some Print Publications (my work not directly available Online)
Takahe (63) 2008, NZ - The Neoliberal Book of Fairy Stories (poem).
ILEF global e-journal editors list (circa) around 2001.
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Accomplishments
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Ian has published a novel, a poetry collection and a non-fiction book on postmodern alienation. He's had over 100 poems, stories and articles published world wide. In Australia his work has appeared (or will appear) in: 'Mascara' (online), 'Best Australian Poems 2005' (edited by Les Murray), 'Tirra Lirra' (Victoria), Verandah (Victoria), 'LiNQ' (QLD), 'Tarralla' (Victoria), 'Tamba' (Nrth. Victoria), 'The Mozzie', 'Vernacular' (SA), 'Woorilla' (Vic.) 'The Australian Writer's Journal', 'Ozlit' (online), 'Dad Stories' (Central Victoria - a short story anthology), Works on Paper Vic.) Media and Culture (QLD) and Idiom 23 (Qld.).
His work has also appeared (or will appear)internationally in journals as diverse as: 'Agenda' Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poets (UK), 'Takahe' (NZ), 'Poetry NZ' (NZ), 'Humanitas' (US), 'The Antigonish Review' (Canada), 'Coffee House Poetry' (UK), 'The Seventh Quarry' (UK), 'Conspire' (US), 'Southern Ocean Review' (NZ), 'Tears in the Fence'(UK), Oban '06 (NZ Poetry Centre - online), Acme Poetry (US - online), Bonfire (UK - online), Bluff (US - online), 'Eclectica' (US - online), 'The Writer's Hood' (US -online), 'Cougar Webworks' (Canada), 'Gravity 22' (US - online), 'Grape Poetry' (US - online), 'Apollo Online' (US), 'Riding the Meridian' (US), 'Deadletters' (US), 'The Resistance' (US), 'A Writer's Choice Literary Journal' (US), 'Healing Arts Magazine' (US). 'Cyber Oasis' (US), 'Baacchor' (US), 'Curiosity's Escape' (US) among others.
He is the former co-editor of the groundbreaking literary ejournal 'The Animist', which is archived by the Australian National Library Canberra under the Pandora e-text preservation program.
Ian also has a PhD in Cultural Studies/Human Relations and teaches various writing modules at Bendigo Regional Institute of TAFE. He has also lectured in history, psychology, sociology and literature at undergraduate and Diploma levels (La Trobe University and BRIT).
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Additional Information
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Three of Ian's book's are available over the WWW: Dream-Dust Parasites [under the pseudonym - Ian Hobson]. DDP is an experimental novel concerning the psychological costs associated with hyper-capitalism (Neo-Liberalism). It is available from most of the major online booksellers (at between $14 and $16.95US).
Under his real name (i.e. Ian Irvine)Ian has also published a collection of his early poetry entitled 'Facing the Demon of Noontide' and a groundbreaking non-fiction work on the origins of postmodern forms of alienation entitled 'The Angel of Luxury and Sadness'.
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Contact Information
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Dr Ian Irvine
P.O. Box 309
Strathfieldsaye, Victoria 3551
Australia
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Contact Author: Ian Irvine (Hobson)
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Purchase Dream-Dust Parasites, Ian Hobson
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Purchase Ian's Non-Fiction book
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The Animist (editions from 1998-2001)
This link will take you to the archived copies of The Animist - a literary journal Ian Irvine coedited between 1998 and 2001. The Pandora archives are housed at the Australian National Library Canberra, Australia.
[You can also access old archived copies of The Animist by going to: The Way BackMachine: http://www.archive.org/index.php
Put the following site old site address into the machine to see old archived pages as they happened! [Yes, the web remembers everything!]: http://theanimist.netgazer.net.au/
Article on Acedia (from Humanitas 1999)
Sometimes you never know quite what people will make of your work once you let it loose on the world wide web. This 1999 essay on acedia, postmodern ennui and the early church fathers has been published by many different groups (originally it appeared in Humanitas) - none, however, have presented it quite as beautifully as this group.It is also available as an eboook from Amazon.com
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