Current Highlights for Me:

Click here is a poetry/performance poetry group out of Castlemaine producing some fascinating work on the web, live, on radio and in print! They also have a beautifully designed web-site. 

I am 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, the sites of a number of friends are very much worth visiting: Click here (award winning author of three novels: Furies, Silent Parts and Two Greeks); Click here (short story writer/poet/editor and journalist) and the poet and short story writer Click here.

* Dr Sue King-Smith: My life partner, Sue King-Smith, is also a poet, writer & academic. She has taught Australian and World Literature to undergraduates at La Trobe University (Bendigo/Shepparton) and was recently awarded PhD in Creative Writing by Deakin University. Her exegesis developed a contemporary political poetics of great relevance to writers and poets interested in social justice issues - the work also contained a significant creative component. In 2008 Sue's first poetry collection, 'An Accumulation of Small Killings', was published by MPU Melbourne (and was submitted for the Victorian Writers Prize for Poetry) and her poems, essays and stories have been extensively published both here in Australia and overseas. Apart from being a teacher of literature (higher ed), community services subjects and literacy and numeracy (VET sector - BRIT Koori Unit) , Sue has also worked extensively in the community services sector as a youth support worker, disability support worker, and, most recently, as a manager in the community capacity building unit at St. Lukes. A commitment to addressing disadvantage and systematised forms of oppression is also evident in her writings.  

See the following links to various recent online publications by Dr. Sue King-Smith: Click here (published by AAWP - Association of Australian Writing Programs); MClick here (poem) (online literary journal); Click here (essay) (Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature) and her essay on Click here (p.11 of the PDF - 2007). See also: Click here (2011); details of Sue's performance at Click here (from poet Adam Ford's website) & Click here details (2011). Likewise, see Google's listing for Click here (Sue's PhD exegesis) ; Click here (a listing for her poetry collection, published by MPU) and her Click here (Identities) listing. Sue's interview - for The Animist - with Australian writer Click here, is still an interesting read today

* See also the work of my friends and colleagues over the years: Justin D'Ath (children's and Y/Adult writer, short story writer and novelist) Click here  and Sara Douglass (who, sadly, recently passed away) Click here . Click here(writer and aunt - kind of) has also been insporational and I'm fascinated by the work of Australian academics Sue Gillett, David Tacey and Harry Oldmeadow.

* Many other 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 (specific links to come). Here are some names to look out for: Mary Pomfret, (novelist/SS writer), Carmel Williams (SS writer/lyricist), Penny Sell (NZ novelist/SS writer), Bruce Oakman (poet/SS writer - author of In Defence of Hawaiian Shirts), Tru Dowling (poet/performance poet), John Snowdon (fiction writer/musician/ essayist), Miranda Aitken (Western Australian and Bendigo poet/lyricist and creative n/f writer), Pam Harvey (young adult writer/SS writer/non-fiction writer), Chris Elston (fiction writer), Mark Smith-Briggs (horror writer and screenwriter), Cameron Oliver (screenwriter/television), G.N. Braun (horror writer and non-fiction writer), Jess Anastasi (Romance writer), Graham Borrell (novelist/poet - author of 'Coogee and the Hunters' isbn 978-064645692-8), Jennifer Mellbourg (poet/creative non-fiction/fiction), R.I. Sutton (fiction writer/creative thinker), Dr. Rod Blackhirst (poet, fiction writer and academic), Dr. Roger Sworder (classicist and poet), Di Dempsey (Reviewer/Journalist & Screenwriter), Rosemary Sorensen (Journalist), Lauren Mitchell (short story writer and non-fiction writer), Ross Donlon (poet, book publisher), Neil Boyack (short story writer and poet), Josephine Rowe (fiction writer and poet), Cate Kennedy (fiction writer, poet, essayist etc.), Cassy Nunan (poet/short story writer and creative thinker), Lorraine Marwood (poet/children's writer, editor), Dr. Warren Burt (sound artist/ musician-composer & essayist), Simmone Howell (fiction writer), David L. Major (poet and fiction writer), Tegan Gigante (poet and creative thinker), Madeline Cooke (fiction writer), Julia Birch (poet and creative thinker-essayist), Sandra Pashkow, Brenda Skinner, James Roberts (poet/radio announcer and creative thinker) and Lisa Jacobson (poet/SS writer).

* My brother, Philip Irvine, as well as being a designer of software systems in the UK, is also a writer (for a copy of his book on desktop publishing go to Click here). Likewise, my brother Andy Irvine is a media officer for the Electrical Trades Union (Queensland and the Northern Territory).

* You might also want to check out a number of Australia's most innovative contemporary poets, e.g.: Click here, John Tranter, Kevin Brophy, David McCooey, PiO, Lionel Foggarty, Maria Takolander and Click here.

*The following sites have also been inspirational recently: US poetry theorist/critic Click here(if you want a crash course on the Anglo-American avant garde in particular this is your site), the Click here, Click here (contemporary French Novelist), Click here(online ezine), Click here, Links from Click here, University of Pennsylvania , Click here(I spent nine years in NZ), Click here (Experimental/Avant garde US poetry), Click here(curated by Jerome Rothenberg), Click here (edited by Click hereauthor of Hades in Manganese), Click here, Click here, Click here, Click hereand Click here. For a fascinating psychology site upon which I base aspects of my emerging TRP poetic visit Click here.

And if that's not enough to keep you busy for weeks, you can disappear completely into the aether via  the more industry relevant links below.

See also Clayton Eshleman's poem Click here (mid way down the page). Enjoy!

Other Useful Links:

For Poets

British Poets
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Poets Against the War
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Poetry Links
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Poetry Café 
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Poetry Portal
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Paper Tiger
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Poetry Magic
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The Poetry Kit
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Electronic Poetry Review
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Jacket Online Ezine
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The Page
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Poetry Society
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Poetry Library
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Auckland Poetry
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Ozlit
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New Writing in the north
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20^th Century Poetry in English
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Electronic Poetry Center
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NZ Electronic Poetry Centre
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Poetry Festivals (Ireland)
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For a much bigger list of dozens of innovative/ independent Poetry and Literary sites go to Marjorie Perloff's international lists at:
Click here and
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Writers Resources (General) – Hope they still work!
 

Newspapers of the World
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Varuna Writers Centre
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Legal Writing Issues
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Online Booksellers
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Aust. Society of Authors
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Victorian Writers’ Centre
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Writers online (Article Brokers)
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Arts Victoria – Funding
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Freelance Editors (Soc.)
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Aust Lit Info Gateway
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International Copyright/Australian Copyright
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Advice to writers
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Editing tips
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Manuscript submission advice
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Artists in residence programs
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Short history of the Canberra Society of Editors
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Links to Magazines  Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc.
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Colourwise – Digital POD printer (Australia)
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Writeminded – Writers for web-site design (employ writers/sell products)
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Bookdoctor – editing/writers advice site
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ABC literature - Online
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Fellowship of Australian Writers
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Write Well
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Write101
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Australian Lit Info Site
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Crime Writing in Australis
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Romance Writers Site
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OZLIT (Australian Literary Site)
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 John Lab.
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Zine List
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Ezine Search 
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How to deal with Lit Agents site
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Australian Writers Guild
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Writers World (A self-publishing Resource)
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MS Assessment (begun by Eva Sallus) – Driftwood MS assessors
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Children’s Book Council of Australia
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Technical Editor’s Eyrie
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Censored Library
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