* Anti the Anti Contributing to Quadrant. Quadrant. June 2012.

* Benefit of Smoking Why smoking is good for you and how I quit. Meanjin. May 2013.

* Biblical Imagery in the Songwriting of Creative Infidels: Cohen, Cave, Kelly & Dylan Some thoughts on why so many non-religious songwriters lean on Old and New Testament imagery. Quadrant. Jan-Feb 2012.

* Boat People: North vs South Australia's first 'asylum seekers' and refugees - and how the 'Boat People' were viewed by the North Vietnamese. Contrappasso. Nov 2015.

* Creating One of the World's Songs The difference between novelty songs, one-hit wonders and signature songs, and why these music industry terms, for the most part, have no meaning in the real world. ArtView. Dec 2015.

* Dire Diva of Din: Florence Foster Jenkins The World's Greatest Worst Singer. Quadrant. June 2016.

* Dirty Laundry: The Art of Confessional Writing. Meanjin. Dec 2017.

* Elysium in Paraguay A look at the diverse communities that have fled to Paraguay in search of paradise. Quadrant.July-Aug 2013.

* Father Scapegoat Catholic priests have become the public face of pedophilia yet the family and the education system outnumber religion ten-to-one in terms of offenders of children. Quadrant. Jan-Feb 2013.

* Graham Greene's Lolita When Shirley Temple sued Graham Greene. Quadrant. Apr 2014.

* The Great American Songbook: The Classical Music of Tin Pan Alley. Quadrant. April 2017.

* GSTQ - The World Anthem of God Save the Queen. Quadrant. Mar 2018.

* Hey Mr Cowbell Man: An Irreverent Critique of Sir Christopher Ricks & Bob Dylan Christopher Ricks and Bob Dylan. More cowbell! A parody. Quadrant. Mar 2012.

*In the Op Shop With Percy Grainger Percy Grainger and Shallow Brown. Quadrant. Nov 2012.

* I Was Never Crazy Interview, and two bushranger poems. Not Shut Up, UK. Oct 9, 2014.

* Jewish Penicillin: Some Science Behind Comfort Food Chicken soup and Bone Broth. Spectator. July 2016.

* Jikan: On Leonard Cohen Red Wolf. Nov 2013.

* KO'd by J. O'K - essay on Johnny O'Keefe. Rock Country. Nov. 2013

* Only Love is Creative. Maximilian Kolbe: Saint of Auschwitz - Quadrant. Apr 2018.

* My Craft or Sullen Art: Poetry and Songwriting Similarities and unsimilarities between poetry and songlyrics. Meanjin. Mar 2014.

* Obscenity of Norman Lindsay A peek into Norman Lindsay’s boudoire. Quadrant. Nov 2013.

* Pen, Pencil or Keyboard Whether what you write with, makes a difference in what you write. Quadrant. Mar 2013.

* Polymaths and Monomaths Why the former needs the latter but not the reverse. Quadrant. July-Aug 2016.

*The Popular Wobbly A Marxist analysis of the blues. Quadrant. Oct 2015.

*Prize Fighting Grants, hit parades, Top 40s and ‘Best of..’ competitions - what really drives them. Quadrant. Mar 2014.

* Shaddap You Facebook Pornography and art and why the government, and law enforcement, have such a hard time telling the difference. Monthly. Apr. 2013.

* Shadow Boxing With John Ernest Tranter An unwind of John Tranter’s ‘review’ of Best of Quadrant Poetry 2001-2010. Red Wolf. Nov 2013.

* Salve for a Broken Childhood The phenomenon of Rod McKuen. Quadrant. Sept 2015.

* Scatting With Poet Ted Joans The story of my surreal ten-year correspondence with black surrealist poet, Ted Joans, to obtain permission to record and perform my musical setting of his poem, Miles Delight. Communion Magazine.

* Speechless: Free Speech and the Skokie Case Free speech vs fair speech - the day the Nazis marched on the Jewish community of Skokie, Ill. Quadrant. July-Aug 2014.

* Spirit World of Athens, Ohio The haunted history, going back to the Civil War, of the University town, in the States, where I first discovered music. Also, according to surveys, one of the most haunted places in the world. An account of an acid-trip gone wrong, in the early 70s, that landed me for a week, in the local Pomeroy Jail. Not Shut Up, UK. Oct 12, 2014.

* Todesengel and the Seven Dwarfs The story of Josef Mengele and the Ovitz dwarfs - the only entire family to survive intact from Auschwitz. Meanjin. Mar 2015.

* William S. Burroughs: Scientologist Burroughs one-night stand with Scientology. Quadrant. April 2015.

* The Willingness to Be Hated The paradox of politics is that we desperately need a leader with vision. This means the ability to see further than the average person. To see the bigger picture. But to be elected also requires the majority of average people to vote for your 'team' - people who may not be able of seeing the big picture at all. So something else is required to win this unusual kind of popularity contest. Quadrant. April 2015.

*Wheat from Chaff Sorting good writing from not-so-good writing. Sotto. Australian Poetry Journal, July 2013.

* Who Is This White Fella Fella? Now that Australia is becoming a rainbow pot of multicultural immigrants, including Asians, Italians, Ethiopians and Muslims, is the aboriginal term ‘white fella’ accurate any longer? Quadrant. Oct 2012.

* Grape-Picking - a review of Best Australian Poems 2016 The most recent Best Australian Poems is made up largely of poems that people 'who do not generally read poetry' will most likely never read or understand. A grand and deserving slate of our most worthy poets has been forgotten, overlooked, unfairly dismissed. Quadrant, Mar 2017.

* A Portrait of the Artist as Place Review of ‘Bluewren Cantos’ by Mark Tredinnick. Rochford Streeet Review June 30, 2015.

* Those Insufferable Prigs At ‘Overland’ Publish in Quadrant and you can forget about seeing your work in Overland. Quadrant Online. Jan 2014.

* This Judge Doesn’t Scan Judge not lest you be judged -- it's a piece of advice Overland's Peter Minter would have done well to heed. Quadrant Online. Feb 2014.

Interviews, Tributes, etc

* In Praise of Les Murray, tributes on the retirement of Les Murray as literary editor, Quadrant Online. Jan-Feb 2019.

* Seven Lighthouse Moments of Joe Dolce. Interview with Donna Ward. Published in Sotto. Oct 2012.

* Give It Mouth. Interview with Dr Naomi Stekelenburg. Feb 2016.

* The Influence of C.P. Cavafy: Last Interview with Dorothy Porter, The Naked Writer:2, Southerly 75.2. 2015.

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