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!

Examples of Works Published on the WWW since 1998 - some of the material below is a little dated.

Examples of Poetry

Mascara (2008) Aust/Asia - three poems from the Vietnamese Sequence
Eclectica (1998) US - Indonesian Sequence - five poems.
Bendigo Writers Centre 'Poetry Contributions' (2009) Australia : 'Words from a 22nd Century Poetry Machine to a Second Order Poet'

Interviews and Non-Fiction

* US poet Clayton Eshleman in conversation with Ian Irvine - an interview conducted for Jacket Magazine 36 (Australia) - late 2008.
*Media and Culture Interview. In this interview editing an internet journal is discussed to some depth (Australia, 1998).
*Riding the Meridian (This link leads to a roundtable discussion on an emerging Digital Poetics). (US, issue 2 Vol. 1, 2000 )
*Sloth, ennui and Tristitia. This article discusses the early medieval malady of acedia and was published online in 2003 (also published in Humanitas, US 1998). See yet another version at Paleopsych (US).
* Antigonish Review. An article dealing with postmodern ennui. (Canada, Issue 116, 1998).
* Extract from The Angel of Luxury and Sadness  This piece appears online at the PsicoMundo website (Argentina) as part of a collection of writings on melancholy.

Short Stories and Anecdotal Stories

* Southern Ocean Review (2008) NZ - Anecdotal story. Also at Southern Ocean Review  go to issue 12 (1999?) and click on the story '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 2001).

Movie Sound Track/Goya's Child (Band 1991-1994)

Ian wrote and performed as lead singer for theCentral Victorian alternative rock band Goya's Child between 1991 and 1994. The band eventually contributed music to the soundtrack for the post-apocalyptic movie 'Freedom Deep' - set mostly in Central and Northern Victoria. Three versions of the movie have been released ,a video in the late 1990s, a DVD in 2003 and, more recently, Dec. 2008,  a 'final director's version'. Go to: Freedom Deep (Final Director's Version).