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1 4 y separately published work icon A Fine Mess Norman Jorgensen , Fremantle : Folio Fremantle Press , 2004 Z1133101 2004 single work novel humour young adult

'Michael Hardy and Woody Decker have a talent for creating disaster. While testing a replica Roman catapult they accidentally fire a brick through the church window, and so a month of mayhem is unleashed. The school library burns down, the principal is knocked unconscious, a huge dog runs amok, a wedding is totally wrecked and a regiment of garden gnomes is massacred. Could anything else go wrong?Uproariously funny and witheringly witty, A Fine Mess! will have you laughing out loud and begging for mercy.' (Publication summary)
1 9 y separately published work icon Kangaroo Virus John Kinsella , Ron Sims (illustrator), South Fremantle : Folio Fremantle Press , 1998 Z381606 1998 single work poetry Publisher's blurb: A multimedia investigation of landscape and language, rumour and fact. The project asks questions about the nature of intervention: ecologically - whether the virus was 'created' by humans - and artistically - about the intrusive nature of the camera, the microphone, the notebook. A soundscape CD is included with the book.
1 4 y separately published work icon Different Hands : Seven Stories John Tranter , South Fremantle : Folio Fremantle Press , 1998 Z303139 1998 selected work prose (taught in 1 units)

Seven prose pieces written using 'BrekDown', a text analysis and text generation program written in Turbo Pascal for IBM-compatible personal computers, devised in 1985 by the San Francisco programmer Neil J. Rubenking. 'Brekdown' can also blend the styles of two or more texts, and reconstruct a text with the characteristics of this blended style.

'The stories . . . I got "Brekdown" to mix text samples by two different writers in a kind of conceptual blender, and produce a new text with the characteristics of both. I produced seven stories, about ten pages each. The drafts that Brekdown gave me needed a lot of reworking. The story "Howling Twins" was heavily reworked from a draft originating in a blend of two text samples, one from Allen Ginsberg's notorious poem "Howl", and one from a chapter of "The Bobbsey Twins on a Bicycle Trip." The piece titled "Lonely Chaps" began as a sample from Radclyffe Hall's febrile novel of pre-war middle-class lesbian passion, "The Well of Loneliness", blended with "Biggles Defies the Swastika."

Source: Interview with John Kinsella, August 1999, John Kinsella website, www.johnkinsella.org (sighted 14/10/2002)
1 y separately published work icon Intensities of Blue : Poems John Kinsella , Tracy Ryan , Applecross : Folio , 1995 Z1206114 1995 selected work poetry
1 4 y separately published work icon A Salt Reader John Kinsella (editor), Applecross : Folio , 1995 Z114250 1995 anthology poetry obituary biography interview
1 y separately published work icon Sightings : Poems for International PEN 62nd World Congress Dennis Haskell (editor), John Kinsella (editor), Applecross : Folio , 1995 Z917087 1995 anthology poetry
1 5 y separately published work icon Erratum / Frame(d) John Kinsella , South Fremantle : Folio Fremantle Press , 1995 Z337663 1995 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon The Brutality of Fact Robert Adamson , Applecross : Folio , 1993 Z814535 1993 sequence poetry
1 y separately published work icon Troubador : Poems John Forbes , Applecross : Folio , 1993 Z417914 1993 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon A Touch of Ginger Fay Zwicky , Dennis Haskell , Applecross : Folio , 1992 Z843326 1992 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Poems Philip Salom , John Kinsella , Applecross : Folio , 1991 Z1193478 1991 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Ultramarine : Poems Anthony Lawrence , John Kinsella , Applecross : Folio , 1991 Z345813 1991 selected work poetry
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