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SITE STATS: As at January, 2025, this site has recorded 464,786 unique visits.

NEW July 2020 - Jan. 2026: Interstititum receives over 14,000 confirmed radio plays across 63 songs at 36 radio stations in 14 countries. This includes 228 Chart Events for 28 of the songs. The band has also feat. in/fronted for over 200 radio shows since July 2020.

April 2023: 'Delving into Medieval History', an article by Ian about former LTU History lecturer and acclaimed Australian Spec. Fiction novelist, Sara Douglass, is published in Memories and Milestones: tertiary education in Bendigo (1873-2023). Ed. by Lauren Mitchell.

Sept. 2020: Article by Forte Magazine, re: iconic artists visiting or operating out of central Victoria over the past 30 years. Ian's 1st band, Goya's Child (Original Lineup) gain an early mention.

NEW Oct. 2018 to Jan 2026: 125 songs either written by, or co-written by, Ian have been produced and released. The songs are linked to the bands Interstitium and Ian Irvine - Solo feat. Goya's Child (Original). 94 Interstitium songs have been produced (and we're in the midst of our 8th Interstitium album). Another 110 new Interstitium songs (or 9 more albums) are in various stages of production.

Interstitium: 8 Albums/ 94 songs (usually by Ian, but sometimes co-written) 2018-25: Collapse, One More Life for You, The Last Human Artists, The Citadel of Clouds, And We Run, Meltdown, Dystopian Girls, Continental Divide, Beautiful Wound; Dancing Like Heroes; Aftermath; Lay Down Your Struggles & Your Gun; You (At Peace); I Miss the Beaches of My Youth; One Step Forward; World of Danger; The Wide Open Sky; Battlefield of Life; You Blew the Colours Away; Take My Leave; Glory Road, Judgement Day; The Pied Piper; The Idiocracy; Soul in Motion, Shot Down (On the Road); Window to the Grave; Meet Your Maker; The Magic Mountain; Song of Futures Bright (Madness); Southern Lands; Sit in the Woods; Winter of Ages; Home Again; Century Storm; When the Boat Went Down; Stairway to Your Heart; Purgatory; Chasing the Bright Lady; When the Conversation Drags; The Centre; Comet and the UFO; Impaled; Liquid of Fire; I Am Not Myself; Halloween; Model Soldiers; Gypsy Dancer; Mundus Imaginalis; Ruin; See How Still She Sleeps; Here We Go Now; Red-Brick Graveyard; Lovers in the Nigredo; Golem; Armies of the Night; The Seventh Deadly Sin; Clear Glass Heart; The Fathers; Amy; Dread Sun; Last Summer; Pools of Fire and Ice; Another War, Cosmic Suicide; The Thin Blue Line; Cyber Sexualis; The Ancient Scapegoat; Over the Line; The Day of the Snakes; Medicine Man; The Road; World on Fire; Eyes Tight Shut (The Abyss); No Love (For the New Generation); Lie In Your Arms; You Could Launch a Summer; The Gift of Pace; Blue Highway; Bright Path Home, Let's Get it Wrong; Forest Dweller; Children of Goya; Fragments of Rhyme; Renegades of Time, Driving My Car; The Many Selves of Rowan Sweeney Fallen Woman; Child of Mine; Song For Our Enemies; The Fires the Evening Brings, What's Your Name; Via Satellite and The Unquiet Grave (Tradit./Ian)

'The Best of Ian Irvine Solo' (2018-2022) feats. Ian's Re-Imaginings of 33 G.C. (Original) songs. (All 33 were co-written by Ian with one or more GC 1 band members): Day After Day; Saturn's Age (Goya's Child); Unfeeling Man; Words of Warning; Orpheus and Eurydice; Gods of Autumn; Nobody's Child; Freedom Row; Vision in the Desert; Sad (How the World Turns Cold); Again and Again; Dark Song; Underground; Letter to You; Burn Like Angels; Revolution; City Lights; Wasteland; She Must Be Sleeping; Haunted Lullaby; Go (Why Don't You); On the Dark Streets; The Arabian; Waterside; Insanity;  Time, My Friends; Going Down (to a Dead River); Gypsy (Eyes Shone Like the Sun); Lady of the Tower, House of Dreams (House of Tears); The Loser; Message Song; & Love & Drugs & Money.

A special mention, also, and many thanks, to our award winning Producer and Creative Collaborator, Peter Gaines, in the UK (as well as his incredible team at CustomAnthems UK.).
Big thank-yous, also, to the following 3 dozen or so radio stations (across 14 countries) for playing and supporting INTERSTITIUM's music (2020-26).

Radio TFSC (Germany); Only Rock Radio (Spain); Prospect Radio (UK); K.B. Radio/ CKKB Radio 81.7FM (Canada); Muse Boat Live (US/Europe); 382 Radio (Birmingham, UK); High Energy FM (Trinidad and Tobago); Barbwires Radio (US/Global); Metal Rock Radio (US/global); Radio Quar (Italy);  #RKC Radio (France); Finn Radio FM (Finland); Zeno FM (UK); Rock on the Rise (USA); It is Now Radio (UK); CBJ Radio (USA); Duggystone Radio (UK); Amherst Island Radio FM 101.3 (Canada); Sound of Spitfire Radio (UK); Wigwam Radio (Cardiff, Wales); Raw Radio (UK); Lonely Oak Radio (California, USA); Target Radio (UK); SLE Radio (UK); Punk Rock Demonstration radio (USA); Lush and Loud on 'From the Holler' Radio (USA) (Radio.x UK); Nu Rock Radio (USA); Code Zero Radio (Wisc. USA); Vault Radio (Scotland); The Ray and Joe Show (Florida, USA); K-Dub Radio (Oh. USA); 3 MDR Radio (Melbourne, Australia); Phoenix FM (Bendigo Australia); JJJ Radio / ABC Radio (Australia)

Interstitium's songs have also featured on four collaboration albums/EPs since mid-2020:

1. The Wide Open Sky feat. on the Allied Indies EP 'Insane Summer (Alb. 1)' 
2. Meet Your Maker feat. on the album/EP Allied Indies Vol. 2. 
3. Shot Down feat. on  BohoPunk 2 
4. Impaled feat. on  BohoPunk 1
Read an article on BohoPunk. 
 
*Painted Words 2020 (The Pandemic Edition). 

Jan. 18th 2020: Profile piece "Ian Irvine: An Artistic All-Rounder" p3.of the 'Bendigo Weekly' section of the Saturday Bendigo Advertiser.

Nov. 2019: Bendigo PWE program: Painted Words 2019 is launched! Bendigo Advertiser short article here. Also, Peter Kennedy's article on the anthology can be found here. Finally, BKI's CEO wrote this short article.

Nov. 16th: Painted Words 2018 launched.

Oct. 2018: Ian helped launch Sasha Shtargot's first poetry collection Ten Ants Only in Castlemaine with Poeticas. Wonderful event and a big congrats to Sasha!.

July 2018: Read my Introduction (print and online) to Robin Ouzman Hislop new poetry collection, Next Arrivals.

Nov. 15th Launch of Painted Words 2017, 'Special Edition'. 28 writers, 431 pages! Cover with previous editions.

Oct 2017: Pre-publication Editing of poetry manuscripts for the Melbourne Poets Union Chapbook Series. The series has launched the careers of many Australian poets.

11th Aug. Participation in two events at the 2017 Bendigo Writers Festival: 'Text Marks the Spot': an interview with novelist Will Kostakis, and a songwriting session with Casey Bennetto and Michael Johnston.

May 17 2017, Bendigo Goldfields Library. Lots of fun and existential angst as a lively crowd explored various Quantum Fiction tropes. Click for an article exploring the Simulated Realities Trope. Event hosted by the Bendigo Writers Council as:: 'Are we Living Inside a 23rd Century Literary Masterpiece?' Read review.

Sunday Feb 26th 2017: The Write Stuff @ Music Man Bendigo A short reading from The City of Quartz (novel).

January 2017: 'I Have Rediscovered Darkness' video poem featured at Poetry Life and Times. Also, read '$10 Utopia' and 'The Great Mother' (poems) online [from print original of Linq literary journal, 2006].

MAIN WORKS/ACTIVITIES

SOME EXTRA EXTERNAL SITES

* Author website at Wordpress and Author Central Amazon.com
* Author bio - at SCRIBD (or a local summary: Ian Irvine (Hobson) bio Authorsden.)
* A range of my articles/essays, poems, book extracts and fiction is available at Scribd. 
* AudioBoo Podcasts http://audioboo.fm/iirvine
* My Soundcloud account - features music and audio of talks and presentations.
* The Animist electronic journal of the arts - 1998-2001 (7 editions archived by the National Library of Australia.
* Zoetics Institute (information site).

MORE NEWS
Late 2016 - The City of Quartz (a novel) available internationally (Aust. buyers). 
Nov. 17th - Launch of Painted Words 2016 (12th edition). Read Pathways Magazine piece and Bendigo Weekly piece. 
12/8/16 Old Fire Station. 'Storyblasting' session with Sean Williams, James Maloney, 7 young flash fiction writers and myself (as host). For the Bendigo Writers Festival schools day. 
18th July @ Bendigo Library: A talk with Dr Sue King-Smith on 'Writing Poetry in a Contemporary Setting' for CVYWA. 
May 23rd @ Bendigo Library. A talk for the Central Victorian Young Writers Association entitled 'The Future of Storytelling in a Transmedia/Multiplatform World'. 
May 2nd. 'Creative Utopias and Dystopias: Alternative Histories and Parallel Worlds'. This talk was held at the Bendigo Library (for Philosophy in the Library series). 

Painted Words (2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017) Work in 2017 edition: 'Six Poems from Coral Reveries: Darwinian Poetics' (poems); 'Are you Living Inside a 23rd Century Literary Masterpiece' (article); and 'Life Outside the Garden: a Review of Mary Pomfret's Writing in Virginia's Shadow.  Work in the 2016 edition: 'The Glaciers Retreat' (poem); 'The Orpheus Plague (extract)' (fiction); and 'Clayton Eshleman: The Essential Poetry' (review). Work in 2015 edition: 'The Ghost Narrates', 'The Great Library' and 'Thoth Meditates on Imperial Hubris' (poems); Work in 2014 edition: 'The Witch Goddess of Snowdonia' and 'The Birds of Rhiannon' (poems). Read Various poems 2014, 2015. 
Dec. 4th - Review by Di Dempsey (Bendigo Weekly) of Painted Words 11.
Aug-Nov. 2015: Live music (2X40-50 minute gigs) up-loaded to Soundcloud and Youtube: 1) Interstitium (live); 2) Goya's Child 1 (Live) 1991-93.

'Our Biosemiotic Clay is African' (poem), 'Hypatia and the Ruined Serapeum' (poem) and 'The Australian Ibis (Sister ot the Sacred Ibis'(poem) published in Poetry, Life and Times (Spain/UK) over 3 month period. Click here for 'Hypatia' audio. See also the full 'Awake in the Chamber of Darkness' sequence.

Monday, August 3rd 2015: Talk: 'Thoth, Hermes & Seshat: (Unheralded) Gods of the Postmodern Transition' (Hear audio Pt. 1 of the talk 30 minutes and Audio Part 2). Presented for the Philosophy in the Library Series (Goldfields Library Corp.). See Flier.

April 2015: Arena Magazine (edition 135) published 'A Lyrical Realist'  - a review of Bruce Oakman's poetry collection Second Thoughts. Read the review at Bruce's website. Select content for Arena editions available here.

April 2015: The article/talk transcript 'New Science Perspectives on Ghosts and other Paranormal Phenomena' was originally delivered as a talk/workshop at the Aradale Creative Retreat (organised by Cohesian Press) in Oct. 2014.

Poetry Life and Times (Spain/UK) has published various poems and poem sequences since 2013: 1)  Any Available Exit ; 2) 'Except Seven None Return from Caer Sidi' (for audio version go to: 'Except Seven ... Audio'. 3) 'Infusoria':  http://www.artvilla.com/plt/infusoria-the-voyage-of-the-beagle-poem-audio-ian-irvine/ 4) 'A Poem is a Useless Thing', and 5) 'Brief Visions of Centemporary Life', See also Poems from Coral Reveries: Poetry Sequence 1 from Coral Reveries - Three Poems ; Poetry Sequence 2: Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle. (For Audio go to: Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle Revisited.) To access my full PLT archive of published pieces since 2012 click here. 

2014-2015: Various Mythic Reimaginings sequences: 

a) The Rhiannon-Epona Sequence: I've posted an 8 poem sequence based on the Rhiannon legend/myth from The Mabinogion and elsewhere. Go to: 1) Rhiannon and Cian (Prelude); 2) After he Stumbled into Annwn, 3) Rhiannon-Epona; 4) The Birds of Rhiannon; 5) The White Mare; 6) Rhiannon Invents Badger in a Bag; 7) Saddled with Care and Compassion, and 8) A Plague of Vermin 

b) See also The Taliesin-Ceridwen sequence: 1)Gwion Bach; 2) Ceridwen Initiates; 3) Before the Influx of Visions; and 4) Three Drops from the Cauldron. 

c) The first poem from a new sequence concerning The Iliad and modern competitive sport: 1) The Ghost Narrates.

d) The Egyptian Sequence explores ancient Egyptian and Greco-Egyptian understandings of the vocation of scribing/writing. Full sequence - 20 poems (PDF). Samples: 1) Hermapolis 2) Hypatia. 

e) Sample: 'The Sumerian Sequence': 1) Innana in the Goldmine 

2015 -To read about the influence of Medieval history research (and teaching duties) on the novels of Sara Douglass, click here (includes an intro by Karen Brooks and myself). Part Two: here. Part Three: here.

2014-2015: I finally opened a Twitter account: @irvinehobson.

16/11/14: Helped launch young Northern Victorian novelist Adem Besim's first YA novel, My Unforgettable Year - an engaging and suspenseful read.

13/11/14: Publication of Painted Words 2014. Go to: Painted Words 2014. For publicity in the Bendigo Advertiser click here.

2014: Read my review of Mary Pomfret's new book 'Writing in Virginia's Shadow'.

18/10/14: 'Transmedia Writing (in a Holographic Multiverse' (n/f article). PDF is reworked from a talk and poetry performance delivered at the Bendigo Fringe Festival (Aug. 8, 2014).

Bendigo Writers Festival and Write (On The Fringe) Festival (2014) [see BWF 2014 news wrap].

* Platform Anthology: PDF download of 3 poems published in Platform 15 Summer 2014 (VU PWE pubishers). See also full PDF of Platform literary anthology. (My 3 poems can be found on pages 34-35, i.e. 'The Deity as Thunder God', 'A Poem is a Useless Thing' and 'The Glacier Serpent').

* Anthologies of Central Victorian Writing showcases digital versions of both the 9th Edition (2013) and the 8th  Edition (2012) of Painted Words.

* The ebook/online version of Scintillae 2012, an anthology of writings by 52 Central Victorian writers can be found here: 'Anthologies of Central Victorian Writing'. The anthology was launched at the inaugural Bendigo Writers' Festival in Aug. 2012.

* The 2013 Bendigo Writers' Festival. On the Sunday I interviewed poet, writer and writing teacher, Lisa Jacobson, and author, academic and cultural psychologist, David Tacey.

* Up-date on Transpersonal Relational Poetics 'anti-manifesto': Poe-zine November 2009. See also, Razvan Tupa's 'Romanian Bodies' blog. See also Rankly list of World Literary Schools and Movements (TRP is at number 57. June 2016). [See also discussion of Razvan Tupa's poetics and work at Rotterdam International Poetry fesitval and the Romanian magazine Cuvantul at Wikipedia].

FURTHER PROJECTS & PUBLICATIONS

OTHER POETRY PROJECTS & PUBLICATIONS 

* 'Coral Reveries: Darwinian Poetics' (digital chapbook) is a short collection of poems inspired by Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle.

* The digital chapbook 'Poems of the Interstitium' is up at Scribd (23 poems published internationally between 1998 & 2012). See also 'The Giant' published in Best Australian Poems 2005 (edited by Les Murray). See also Print version of Agenda - Special Australian Edition (2006).

*'The Alchemical Sequence' (digital chapbook) (55 pages) explores the idea of writing an 'alchemical biography' through poems that resemble 'alchemical recipes'. This collection also makes use of a range of historic alchemical 'emblems/symbols' by Scottish author, artist and alchemy expert Adam McLean (images used by permission of the Artist).

* 'Hermes and the Philatelic Construction of the Multiverse'  (a digital chapbook) (32 pages) features various poems exploring cultural identity via stamps/philately. Many of these poems have been published - including in Linq literary journal (2006) pg 39-40 i.e. $10 Utopia and The Great Mother.

* View a collection of poems written during a trip to Vietnam in 2007: The Vietnamese Sequence. For an MP3 recording: Vietnamese Segue - WMA recording of various poems, copyright, Ian Irvine, 2007-2010. Some of these poems were published in Mascara and Verandah (23).

* Samples from Facing the Demon of Noontide (Booksurge, 2000 - this sample SCRIBD 2013). Over 40 pieces were published internationally between 1998 and 2012, including in: Best Australian Poems 2005 and Agenda: Special Edition of Contemporary Australian Poets.  See also: Spine of a Country in Tirra Lirra (2006).

* The Price of Experience: An interview I conducted with US poet, Clayton Eshleman, (originally published online in Jacket Magazine, no. 36, and reprinted in Scintillae 2012) appears in a compendium of Eshleman's writings published by Blackwidow Press entitled The Price of Experience.

Audio: playlist of poems at: AudioBoo Poetry (audio samples).

From the Attic (Early New Media Publications): 4 Poems in Bonfire (Scotland, 1999 About); Eclectica (US, 1998) six poems; Paradigm Shift (Oct. 1998, USA online)3 Poems; MFreeZone (1998, USA, online) 4 Poems; 3 poems, Conspire (V 2, I7, Nov. 1998, US online); 5 Poems Acme (2001 Kansas City US); 3 poems, Ozlit (Melb. Australia, April 1998); Poem in The Rose and Thorn (July 1998, USA); Poem in Oban 06 (NZEPC, 2006, NZ); 2 poems Kinte Space (US, Nov. 1998) .

OTHER FICTION PROJECTS AND PUBLICATIONS

* The short story 'The Phantom Library' is up at Scribd. First published in Baacchor Magazine (LA, USA) in the late 1990s.

For more short fiction by the author (mostly literary) - e.g. Five Boxes and a Knife,The Orpheus Plague, The Doubtful Muse, Theresa Jones (originally published bySouthern Ocean Review, NZ), etc. For a selection go to: Stories and Poems at SCRIBD.

NON-FICTION PROJECTS AND PUBLICATIONS

* Draft samples of 33 'Chapters' or 'Islands' - from my up-coming creative non-fiction book 'Muse of the Long Haul: Thirty-One Isles of the Creative Imagination are up at SCRIBD. The book-length version of these samples features: 1) literary appreciation; 2) biographical elements; 3) an outline of a contemporary 'poetics'; and 4) retellings of relevant myths and lengends.

* Seven chapters from Hermes (Unheralded) God of the Postmodern Transition are up at Scribd. The project as a whole explores a range of issues from Jungian/archetypal, Transpersonal and Quantum perspectives. ARTICLE 1 - Alchemy and the Imagination (Part 1); ARTICLE 2 - Alchemy and the Imagination Part 2: The Role of Hermes; ARTICLE 3 - Jung, Alchemy and Active Imagination; ARTICLE 4 - Hermes and Postmodern 'Creativity'; ARTICLE 5 - 'Hermes Negatively Polarised (1)'; ARTICLE 6 -  Hermesian Epidemics; and ARTICLE 7 -  'Trickster Gods and the Quantum Muse' 

Note: See the Flyer for the original 'Trickster Gods and the Quantum Muse' talk delivered on Monday 4th June, 2012 at the Bendigo Central Goldfields Library (part of the 'Philosophy in the Library' series).

* Four Creative Non-Fiction Pieces 

1) A piece about my father, his father and football in Scotland in the 1920s-30s entitled: 'Dennis Lillee, Robert Burns and the Big Centre Forward' (originally published in the Dad Stories anthology).
2) A piece on cricket published in Southern Ocean Review (NZ) some years ago.
3) An unpublished autobiographical piece entitled: 'The 2 Pound Black and Rose Kangaroo'.
4) 'Autobiographical Preface to The Angel of Luxury and Sadness'.

* Seven chapters/articles based on material from The Angel of Luxury and Sadness (Booksurge, 2001) are up at SCRIBD: 

1) 'Ennui and Modernity: Introduction to The Angel of Luxury & Sadness'.
2) 'Brief extracts related to melancholy and ennui'. (Published by Psico Mondo, Argentina).
3) 'Acedia, Tristitia and Sloth: Early Christian precursors to Chronic Ennui. (No. 12 [1] 1999, US Humanitas).
4) Flaubert, ennui and Romanticism.
5) 'Marxist theories of Alienation and the Tradition of Chronic Ennui'. (Originally published in The Animist electronic journal of the arts).
6) 'Towards an Outline of Postmodern Ennui' (Originally published by the Canadian journal The Antigonish Review 116).
7) [Summary of] 'Historical Developments to the Problem of Chronic Ennui'.

NOTE: Amazon.com's 'look inside' function for The Angel of Luxury and Sadness. 

* Read about an emerging international poetic movement: Anti-Manifesto for aTranspersonal Relational Poetics (at Scribd). Or Authorsden version at: Transpersonal Relational Poetics).
* Go to a review of Mary Pomfret's recent book 'Writing in Virginia's Shadow' entitled: 'Life "Outside the Garden"'  
* Read a piece about the demise of print-based literary journals like Meanjin in Australia: Print-Based Literary Journals and the Mutations of Thoth.


And FOUR from the Archives:

*The Cyber-Editor: Musings on a Citizen of the World, (Alternative Culture Magazine 1998, Canada).
* 'Better than Bali: Travels on the WWW' (Literary roundtable hosted by Jennifer Ley, with Robert Kendall, Ian Irvine, Sue Thomas, Alaric Sumner and Christy Sheffield Sanford). published online in Riding the Meridian (ISSN: 1525-3228 ©1999].
* Review of Peter Goldsworthy's book 'Navel Gazzing' in Ozlit (online, 1998). 
* 'Primal Therapy into the New Millennium' at Healing Arts (US online, Nov. 1999).
* 1999 Interview with Guy Redden of Media and Culture (Vol. 2, Issue 6).

* A number of articles/conference papers/lecture notes on literary movements are available to read at SCRIBD: 1) Notes on Creativity Revolutions: Key Aspects of Socio-Cultural and Literary Postmodernism; 2)'Some Contemporary Experimental Literatures'; and 3) Two Essays on Australian Poetry.

* Two essays on Jungian and Reichian psychology can be accessed by clicking on psychology articles.

OTHER STUFF
* Anyone for Cricket?  Go to: Bendigo Weekly Feature. The piece explores my time as a cricketer. See also my listing at: Cricket Archive listing.