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		<title>2011 roundup</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had big plans for this blog in December, but ah well. This month has somehow completely passed me by. Favourite books you&#8217;ve read this year, anyone? It&#8217;s always hard; the most recent are often stronger in the mind, but I think these would have to be mine. Eliot Weinberger was my favourite &#8216;discovery&#8217; this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plumeofwords.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13228725&amp;post=1031&amp;subd=plumeofwords&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yawning through Game of thrones</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Game of Thrones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Khal Drogo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t get it. What is it about Game of Thrones that has people I know &#8212; and not just men &#8212; waxing lyrical? And what is HBO doing screening it? I hate being a spoil sport but I find it so boring. Nudity seems to be thrown in there mechanically and for no other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plumeofwords.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13228725&amp;post=1016&amp;subd=plumeofwords&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ABC Radio National broadcast</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 04:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Untying the Tongue]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A while ago, ABC Radio National First Person producer Justine Sloan-Lees very kindly invited me to read out the essay I had published in Kill Your Darlings 6, &#8216;Untying the tongue&#8217;. In the studio she was extremely patient with my slip-ups and stumbles, with my nervous fidgeting of feet under the desk (the mic was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plumeofwords.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13228725&amp;post=1009&amp;subd=plumeofwords&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rutherford and Grossman translations of Don Quixote</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given that the latest Killings Culture Club podcast is on Don Quixote, I thought it would be timely to comment on its latest translations into English: John Rutherford&#8217;s 2001 Penguin Classics edition, and Edith Grossman&#8217;s 2003 HarperCollins/Vintage edition. The best way to do this is by looking at the details, at the choices the translators [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plumeofwords.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13228725&amp;post=993&amp;subd=plumeofwords&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caroline Caddy&#8217;s Burning Bright</title>
		<link>http://plumeofwords.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/caroline-caddys-burning-bright/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caroline Caddy’s ninth collection of poetry, Burning Bright, brings together acutely observant poems that often centre on an experience; each experience holds the speaker’s intense attention and is turned this way and that until all its angles are illuminated. The poems focus on image and, in something of an homage to this focus, a number [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plumeofwords.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13228725&amp;post=967&amp;subd=plumeofwords&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why there will always be too many books</title>
		<link>http://plumeofwords.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/why-there-will-always-be-too-many-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 03:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the reading trail that Oranges and Peanuts for Sale has led me on, and they&#8217;re all books I hadn&#8217;t heard of before. Imagine the bullet points as stepping stones, and as far less orderly than they appear: Weinberger&#8217;s An Elemental Thing (2007) Weinberger&#8217;s Karmic Traces (2001) Nirad C. Chaudhuri&#8217;s The Autobiography of an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plumeofwords.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13228725&amp;post=965&amp;subd=plumeofwords&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eliot Weinberger on translation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 03:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All from Oranges and Peanuts for Sale, all food for thought: Poetry operates under its own version of chaos theory: the unpredictable effects of remote, sometimes forgotten causes. A 4th century poet from Gupta India, Kalidasa, becomes a founding father of German Romanticism; Buddhist Jataka tales turn up in Chaucer; a Finnish pseudo-folk epic sets [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plumeofwords.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13228725&amp;post=959&amp;subd=plumeofwords&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On representing people in writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about the ethics of representation lately. Making people into characters constrained by a narrative thrust is always going to be an exercise in simplifying them: it&#8217;s an unavoidable side-effect of choosing events to highlight and others to overlook, of drawing out cause-and-effect relationships, and of making them less complex in order to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plumeofwords.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13228725&amp;post=883&amp;subd=plumeofwords&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weinberger&#8217;s Oranges and Peanuts for Sale</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just found out that my greatest discovery at the Melbourne Writer&#8217;s Festival was an author I didn&#8217;t see. A week or so ago, after watching Ramona Koval&#8217;s interview with him via Slow TV, I thought he might be worth checking out. I thought about ordering his latest book; didn&#8217;t; forgot about it; then remembered [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plumeofwords.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13228725&amp;post=939&amp;subd=plumeofwords&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Story of a desk</title>
		<link>http://plumeofwords.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/story-of-a-desk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what my corner used to look like: Now, it looks like this: The desk just came in a truck from the country, heaved inside by two bulls of men, one of whom rose up in indignation at the young woman who tooted her horn when forced to wait twenty seconds behind his truck, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plumeofwords.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13228725&amp;post=914&amp;subd=plumeofwords&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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