`Seeking a BOOK REVIEW by digital messenger,
and having tired of awaiting response from Paul Keating
and Peter Garrett;
John Latham says,
“Michael, have you had time to have a look at ‘Streetwalking’ or have you looked and had a facemelt?”
MICHAEL DAVIS – colleague in industry & culture -
up to his eyebrows in house design says;
“Oh dear... I am in a documentation frenzy. Do you ever have them? Started at 2am today.
I love your work; your writing is so playful on the verge of poetry.
Don't you stop. :)\
I think your work is essential reading for all students and people who work in housing.”
AND in time-pressed followup enquiry about presenting to You Michael’s affirmation as above, (and puzzled about the limitation to housing), John says,
‘… not terribly formal but then that's because it’s not. …’
Michael says, “Had a good look to page 90, over the weekend … on the mobile screen. Was chain sawing at my girlfriend’s place in Gordon so she is not cold this winter. Very much a back woods place where there is a shortage of banjo lessons.
We both enjoyed the polemic. Perhaps that is too strong; rather the commentary on the contemporary.
Like a cross between Banjo Patterson and Jack Kerouac.
We are both visual people and could follow along. ...
By all means John. :)
Don't stop, it is literature.
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© Monte John Latham 2016-19
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Great Southern Streetwalking Nomad and its composite parts.
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Debox Publications.
Publication Date: F 2018
Trim: 1524_2286
ISBN: 978-0-646-99312-6
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Foreword
At home in global-local geography
we find ourselves as de facto nation
in countryside, coast, chementality & pixel.
(NOTE: There’s a Dictionary in back.)
This is an intended, potpourri of consciousness,
‘a tad’ brave,
- lyrical, light hearted, edited, patched
- the 27,000 word write unintended, yet
emerging, as reflection on geographic architecture, identities, futures
- and as pronunciation of organic urban event
- unexpectedly drawing a serious keypoint
that to many may well be merely an annoying
break in melody.
1 of 8
Hear me Australians,
the writing hand street-sweeps clean our urban-nomadic colour-printed pillow. It sleepwalks our rough edges, for easy-eared simple town hearts; marries those who bind the great infinite intelligent, remembers with the depth of a country in the merging brewing shallows of individual mentalities. There is no movement at this station;
… yet ‘a c**t certainly is getting away’ and here some ‘word is getting around’.
On easily the main island of the Tasmania group, this writing is stationed, in or on the third day after say the 2,014th Christmas since the well-known, by name at least, Jesus Christ established a vital path via corrected death.
… national atmosphere is misting
I am in my own lounge of my ‘owned’ home-ground, in a big big island continent land, of still more islands and which somehow separated be from many islands more and continent close north; some lengthy swims south to ice and east to oceanic delights. Quietly the national atmosphere is misting the writer’s thought here on Frogmore Peninsula, which is an oft forgotten beauty, lying in sheltered shallow waters, animal-nude under its fence-tapestried suburban shawl mindset. Our Australia is tangled and extremely varied in sprawl, country towns, oil rigs, bushland homes, room-kernels, loungerooms, offices, ancient songlines and territories,
drifting jet vapour, workplace kitchens, camps, surf, snow and more and more zero rooms behind pixilated curtains ....
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