Copies available from Queensland publisher, IP.
Also from Amazon internationally and other sellers.
I like butter, I want it but the butter’s too hard too soft, too salted, too French.
I’m soaking in hot bath water at home, having run an ancient canyon in soft slanting rain. The track picked a tremulous line between arching cliffs and gurgling streams. Gnarled tree roots sprawled as if they possessed all the time, and oddly shaped river boulders......
Upper Shipley climbing area: a line called Hot Flyer, amber rock catching the sun. Bolts for protection, chalked grooves marking the route like reassuring breadcrumbs, except the rock is vertical for fifteen metres, then overhanging, and gravity is waiting for a mistake. Mark is on......
When this lonely writing life sucks me down, I look to my books for solace. I kneel first by the lower shelves, home to racier friends, legendary abusers of the literary life, and quietly binge. I binge on London and Bishop, Faulkner and Sexton, Fitzgerald......
I leave the confines of my study soon – the simplicity and profundity of this mountain wilderness, the tracks, cliffs and canyons, the shores of this country for global escapades. Prague first for valuable time with my adult sons. We have roughly a week together......
The waiting is nearly over.
James’s new book, Tickets to the Fall of Icarus, will be released by Interactive Press in December 2023.
You can order your copy in advance here.
James is pleased to announce that his full collection of poetry – Staying Whole While Falling Apart – has been published and is now available for purchase from a notable Australian publisher, Interactive Publications.
You can purchase your copy here.