This Fluid Thrill: Sport 38: Fresh in my hot little hands

Friday, April 23, 2010

Sport 38: Fresh in my hot little hands

Nothing better, after a week of long hours working for an ever-shrinking public service, to get home and find a courier post parcel in the letter box. Today it was my contributor's copy of Sport 38.

And as a bonus, there was a thick brown envelope containing James Brown's B.S. Johnson-y poem-in-cue-cards 'Popocatepetl', with drawings by Anastasia Doniants:

Lot's to do to get ready for my San Fran to Vegas road trip, plus I have to do a manuscript review for Whitirea... but why not commit now to a Sport summary in my April Reading in Review post?

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Published Fiction

'Recessional'' - Griffith Review (April 2015)
'Parents in Decline' Griffith Review (May 2014)
'The Cuddies' - Warwick Review Vol.6 No.1 (May 2012)
'Offshore Service' - Griffith Review 34 (Nov 2011); Spanish translation 'Servicio de alta mar' in Hermano Cerdo (April 2012)
'The Bartender's Glass' - JAAM 29 (September 2011)
'Statues' - Slightly Peculiar Love Stories (Rosa Mira) July 2011
'The Waikato Farmers' - The Long and the Short of it (May 2011)
'My Yale and My Harvard' - The Listener, January 2011
A Man Melting, Short Stories - Vintage (Random House NZ) July 2010
'A Man Melting' (title story from my collection) - Sunday Star Times, June 2010
'30 Ways of Looking at Marumaru South' - Sport 38 (April 2010)
'Copies' - Essential New Zealand Short Stories (June 2009) and The Best NZ Fiction, Vol 5 (Sept 2008); German translation 'Kopien' in Ein anderes Land (DTV, 2012); Spanish translation 'Copias' in Hermano Cerdo (April 2015)
'Manawatu' - Sport 36 (June 2008)
'Eugene Ruddy' (print only) - Takahe 63 (April 2008)
'The Ditch' and 'Eyes' (print only) - Etchings 4 (Feb 2008)
'The Kick Inside' - Lumière Reader (Jan 2008)
'Christo Redentor' (print only) JAAM 25 (Dec 2007)
'More Great Solos for Clarinet' - Turbine 2007
'Another Language' - Winner of Katherine Mansfield Award Novice Section 2007
'The City We Forgot To Name' (novel extract + more) - Turbine 2006

Published Poetry

'Glen Coe' and 'In Time' - Turbine 2011
'The Link Arcade' - Broadsheet 8 (November 2011)
Five poems and five micro-stories - Pasture no.1 (August 2011)
'Six Napkins', '10 Places I Could Be...' - Trout 16 (Dec 2010)
'Two Days After Tomorrow' - Side Stream 25 (Print, July 2010)
'Translation' and 'Cardio' - Enamel 2 (Print, June 2010)
Free Walking Tour With My Brother', 'The Dog at Christmas'' - Snorkel 11 (April 2010)
'Space for a Thousand Secrets' Brief 38 (Print, Aug 2009)
'The Bumblebee' Blackmail Press 23 (Jan 2009)
Three Poems - The Lumière Reader (Dec 2008)
'Himalyan White' – Turbine 2008
'Distinctions', 'The Poet' - Trout 15 (Oct 2008)
'You Jane Eyre, Me Tarzan Presley' - Snorkel 7 (April 2008)
'Wellington Triptych' - Snorkel 2 (Oct 2005)