Elias Greig
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Elias Greig
@eliasgreig.bsky.social
Slow writer (he/him)
Author of I Can't Remember the Title but the Cover is Blue (A&U 2018). Opinions mine, professional account only.
Rep'd by @daniellebinks.bsky.social
Email: eliasgreig@gmail.com (E-I-G)
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Writing thread/very modest archive:
1/6, 'The Whale Ghosts', an essay on whales, wealth, and their ghosts in Australia's richest suburb, "founded" by whale magnate and former slaver Archibald Mosman.
Feature | The whale ghosts - Overland literary journal
Approaching a house at night, it is possible to tell, from a distance, if the television is on. Even if the program is inaudible, the night walker, passing by, can discern beneath the sounds of wind a...
overland.org.au
”a lucky life/on this continent costs/a heavy dose of arsenic” — electrifying to read Arsenic Flower, a beautiful, intelligent, and formally inventive collection from Dakota Feirer on Gumbaynggirr country — on the Clarence watershed, where the names of the killers are still on the signs.
November 21, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Re-read this gem from @robbiemoore.bsky.social — applies to everything:
”TH Huxley imagined a planet emptied of humanity but pulsing with fungal and algal life. He used the image as a way of refuting the idea that survival of the fittest necessarily means survival of the most complex or intelligent”
The animal in the walls - Robbie Moore
Humans have tried to categorise fungus in many ways over the years; here Robbie Moore examines how this part-animal part-plant has been used to represent malevolent forces in gothic tales.
www.griffithreview.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Finished it in tears — it's a meteor. As a collection, all of it matters, all of it counts towards where it ends, and no revelation feels unearned. I loved all of it. It is time to Rot.
November 16, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Writing thread/very modest archive:
1/6, 'The Whale Ghosts', an essay on whales, wealth, and their ghosts in Australia's richest suburb, "founded" by whale magnate and former slaver Archibald Mosman.
Feature | The whale ghosts - Overland literary journal
Approaching a house at night, it is possible to tell, from a distance, if the television is on. Even if the program is inaudible, the night walker, passing by, can discern beneath the sounds of wind a...
overland.org.au
July 20, 2025 at 11:05 AM