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The Diemenois. A graphic novel by JW Clennett
Review: The Diemenois, being the correct and true account of the sensational escape, seclusion, and cruel demise of a most infamous man by JW ClennettThe Diemenois is an impeccably drawn, fascinatingly...
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Zeyar Lynn. Poet, Burma
In 2013 I went to Bangkok, one of my favourite places in the world. It was for the Asia Pacific Writers and Translators (APWT) conference and I spoke about literary prizes. That year I was one of the...
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Boney.
Just who is Boney and what made him the protagonist of the (eponymous) international twentieth century bestsellers? Maybe you remember him from the 1970s television series...All of these questions AND...
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Aung San Suu Kyi: The Voice of Hope: conversations with Alan Clements
Since this book was first published, Aung San Suu Kyi has been freed from house arrest and rightfully taken her place in the Burmese parliament.Alan Clements is one of the first Westerners to ordain as...
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August Paige Turner column
It was a ripper night at the pub last night and some mates and I have begun to devise PRANKFEST (watch this space). Later in the evening I picked up a copy of the latest Warp, for which I write a...
View ArticleBooks are nice to look at - the library at Wat Buddha Dhamma
Wat Buddha Dhamma was started by a wonderful, renegade monk called Phra Khantipalo and a feisty renegade nun, Ayya Khema. They both practised and taught in the tradition of Theravada Buddhism and...
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Podcast - Interview with Anjum Hasan.
This is an interview with Anjum Hasan from some years ago. She has a new book on its way out, The Cosmopolitansand as I work through my archive of interviews it is timely for me to post this one....
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September Paige Turner Column
Burma, or Myanmar beckons me for the month of September, I’m off to visit poets and punks and to trek some trails in Shan country, but you’re spoilt for literary choices if you find yourself on the...
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Review of Physick by Pete Hay
Review of Physick by Pete HayThe poem ‘Sound to the World’ blazes with an intensity that runs throughout Pete Hay’s new collection of poetry, Physick. “I will keep a jurnal this is the ferst day.It...
View ArticleDope Doco 2004, Tasmania
This is a file I thought I had lost years ago. It is a sound documentary* that explores marijuana consumption of a small and lovely group of people in Hobart in 2004.Here is the hyperlink to the sound...
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Paige Turner October - books and writing events in Tasmania in October
It’s not often a book prize increases sales of a book, the Man Booker Prize being a rare example, but since the 1980s I have paid heed to books which have been awarded the Children’s Book Council of...
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Bruny Island Bird Festival
Dusky Woodswallow, photo Chris TzarosBird nerds, birders, birdos, twitchers and all the rest of us have another welcome reason to visit Bruny Island over the weekend 14-17 of October, with the return...
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The Good People by Hannah Kent, podcast
The Good People is Hannah Kent’s much anticipated second novel. Set in 19th century Ireland, it is the story of maiden, mother and crone; Mary, Nora and Nance and a changeling child, Michael. It’s the...
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Paige Turner - November
Journalist Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize for Literature last year. She is a journalist from Belarus whose book, Secondhand Time, the Last of the Soviets, translated by Bela Shayevich, is a...
View ArticlePaige Turner, December 2016
Blessed are the booksellers, especially at this dastardly time of year, where the Christmas retail spirit leaches every echo of goodwill from your shopping laden pores. Consider them, hauling tonnes of...
View ArticlePaige Turner, February, 2017
May your 2017 have begun with time for reading, clarity, creativity and inspiration.February, as ever, is jam packed with books and writing related events, and two of the more curious ones are Lost...
View ArticleHappy Palestine Day
The Mercury asked me to write a few words about my favourite love stories. An edited version of the below was published in last weekend's TasWeekends -I’m far from a capital R Romantic and generally...
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Paige Turner March
It will be almost impossible to avoid a book or story related event if you are in Tasmania during March. Non-stop reading and writing parties, it will be NONSTOP. Or at least a variety of word related...
View ArticleWhen Did You Tell Your Mother You Were Straight?
When Did You Tell Your Mother You Were Straight? Three Generations of Gay and Lesbian Experience in Tasmania.This is an interview with three generations of Tasmanians. It was first published in Island...
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Birdsong, A Celebration of Bruny Island Birds
"Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers"Yevgeny YevtushenkoYesterday was Easter Sunday and I spent it on Bruny Island in Southern Tasmania. I had been invited by Bruny Island Arts to hold an...
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