{"id":55,"date":"2008-07-03T19:37:56","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T08:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2008-07-03T19:37:56","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T08:37:56","slug":"my-city-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"my city secret"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some time in 2007 when I was very depressed about the state of Australian society and poetry in general and the sales of micromacro<\/em><\/strong><\/span> in particular, I wrote this rambling dirge called at the experimental art foundation<\/em><\/strong><\/span>. Amazingly, the editors of cordite have selected it for their latest edition\u00a0Secret Cities<\/a>. Incredible. Even when we writers are down we surprise ourselves\u2026<\/o:p><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I share the honour of publication with Ban\u2019ya Natsuishi, Alice White<\/strong><\/span>, DJ Huppatz, Leah Kaminsky,\u00a0<\/span>Emma Rooksby,<\/strong><\/span> Sam Byfield,<\/strong><\/span> Fleur Beaupert,<\/strong><\/span> Rob Morrow,<\/strong><\/span> Aidan Fadden,<\/strong><\/span> Jeff Klooger, Rose Hunter, Alamgir Hashmi, William Doreski,<\/strong><\/span> Liam Ferney,<\/strong><\/span> Stuart Cooke,<\/strong><\/span> Sarah French,<\/strong><\/span> Benito Di Fonzo,<\/strong><\/span> Linda Godfrey,<\/strong><\/span> Andrew Burke,<\/strong><\/span> Nick Powell<\/strong><\/span>, Lia Hills, Jennifer Compton<\/strong><\/span>, James Stuart<\/strong><\/span>, Elizabeth Kate Switaj<\/strong><\/span>, Margaret Owen Ruckert<\/strong><\/span>, Ivy Alvarez<\/strong><\/span>, Cameron Brockmann<\/strong><\/span>, Bev Braune<\/strong><\/span>, Joanne Johns<\/strong><\/span>, Sarah Jane Barnett<\/strong><\/span>,\u00a0 <\/span>S. K. Kelen and <\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Nancy Anne Miller.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Thankyou once again to the\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>cordite<\/em><\/strong><\/span> team<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0for its efforts in promoting Australian contemporary poetry.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"secretcities3\"<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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