Summary. For some reason, I feel guilty that I'm saying nothing political at all. Everybody else is. Shouting. Wailing. The other day, I found myself turning off a podcast about someone's death (also guilty) not because dunningkrugerdancemirror.substack.com

Yes me too. I live here. We don't share our shrooms willingly. dunningkrugerdancemirror.substack.com/p/darkness-a...

Postie! open.substack.com/pub/dunningk...

What can I say?

New pod, where you get pods. An extract from The White Library, me reading. Just a scene. Angela Donohoe's working on a gadget for finding secondhand books. We'd all like that right? dunningkrugerdancemirror.substack.com Thanks to The Narratives Library for the recording. Link below.

The deputy editor speaks overland.org.au/2025/09/no-g...

Nighty-night from springtime. It's full of squid! I saw them. (Well, not all.)

Soo. Volunteering as boy tech.

Morning.

Yes but is it poetry? I think the reason I grew up a Samuel Delany fan, so much so it carried me through Hogg, was that connection between otherness, weird, and poetic drives. And there's something about sf as literature of ideas which is now so attractive to Lit. This is what joins

Here's a bit of fun. To celebrate PS Publication’s publication of The White Library, a century ago today, during lockdown and in a time of increasing a-literacy, I’ve jotted a little monologue in that universe, also set in a library. It's a free audiobook! AND epub! AND bonus soundtrack!

Gippsland! Giopopsland! It's all about Gippsland. Well, actually.... open.substack.com/pub/dunningk...

A writer local to me. It pains me that this is so fluent and in so many different registers across the colleciton. Wish I could do that. Or maybe I can and I'm just having a crisis of confidence. open.substack.com/pub/dunningk...

Kaliane Bradley, yes. Makes me think the answer in my case is "by then your carrot's wilted"...but then I'm older and live in a tiny Australian town. Makes me think of a story an Indian woman told of growing up in 60s Melbourne, when the only other Indian family they knew lived way across town.

When not buying chickens, I've been reading Adam Roberts. Not a review. open.substack.com/pub/dunningk...

Paul Voermans @ppendoppo Look I know there's not much feedback on (my) #poetry in this place, but, actually, this is a short response to the ExxonMobil "consultation" for the Barry Beach Bass Strait oil rig decomissioning and recycle. Just couldn't help but poem. open.substack.com/pub/dunningk...

Something I wrote a while ago, which was lost: open.substack.com/pub/dunningk...

If you love Anne Tyler. If you don't, I cannot even. open.substack.com/pub/dunningk...

My mate was putting his head under the steering wheel to plug in his ODB2 scanner (don't ask).

Wondering why no Seattle panel I asked GPT what it thought of me And it was mean about me in 2013: www.voermans.net.au/the-pope-mea...

Not even a Catholic. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_....

Too early volunteering at the polling booth. Party. Fried. Goodnight lovlies. open.substack.com/pub/dunningk...

He has no proposals. That's true. If you can't believe a word, there is no platform but opportunism.

Has a cracker of an ending. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"Dutton often seeks to present himself as a reasonable person ‘just asking questions’ or trying to inject a dose of common sense into the political debate." meanjin.com.au/essays/dutto...

Sausage. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Is it too early to tip Gerald Murnane for Pope?

I learned this morning my friend Damien died yesterday, in Castelo Branco, without pain and in peace, at last. Here is the poem I wrote staying at his home last October. open.substack.com/pub/dunningk...

I talked my way into Journalism at RMIT in my brown pinstripe double-breasted flared suit and burgundy platform shoes, when it was the only course in the country and you had to have a cadetship—um—and you had to have good scores and I only squeaked through, then quit on the 1st day to study drama.

GLIBLY MY SHADOW SLIPS ACROSS THE WINDOW FLYING FROM THE MOON COMING FOR YOU SOON

Han Kang. I'm on the Kangwagon, I guess. open.substack.com/pub/dunningk...

I'd pick two Australians. A Clifton Pugh and a Vincent Fantauzzo, Gough and Julia. All others besides perhaps Kevin known by last names.

This all seems like a severely self-harming way to find out white straight people aren’t what makes America good (let alone great).

We love autumns but hate them seagulls.

Burning. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Debuts are wild and wooly and discovering a fresh new voice is fun, but the best prose is usually found in the books of a mid- to late-career writer who’s had their ups and downs and has no fucks left to give about “making it” (whatever that means)

The lies of the thoroughly evil Trump Regime land like violent punches to the former allies of the United States. If you’re doing anything but unequivocally condemning these lies and the liars spreading them, you’re part of the lie, and hurting those allies yourself with your silence. SPEAK UP!

Here too. Don't confuse the two. www.aec.gov.au/enrol/

Congratulations @backlisted.bsky.social on the Arendt ep. I have a copy of The Human Condition beside me always--OK, in the loo--and have been all worked up about a damn philosopher having a go at her on Radio National here. open.substack.com/pub/dunningk...

This is what killed the dinosaurs.

Now that we have your attention.

All the friends they ever had are gone. music.youtube.com/watch?v=SHKT...