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paul voermans
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Author of several novels, building a sustainable pottery in S. Gippsland.
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Here's a bit of fun. To celebrate PS Publication’s publication of The White Library, a century ago today, during lockdown and in a time of increasing a-literacy, I’ve jotted a little monologue in that universe, also set in a library.

It's a free audiobook! AND epub! AND bonus soundtrack!
Yes me too.

I live here. We don't share our shrooms willingly.

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Darkness All Too Visible
The Mushroom Tapes: Conversations on a Triple Murder Trial, by Chloe Hooper, Helen Garner, and Sarah Krasnostein
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November 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
November 4, 2025 at 7:23 AM
What can I say?
October 26, 2025 at 6:32 AM
New pod, where you get pods. An extract from The White Library, me reading. Just a scene. Angela Donohoe's working on a gadget for finding secondhand books. We'd all like that right?

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Thanks to The Narratives Library for the recording. Link below.
October 14, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Nighty-night from springtime. It's full of squid! I saw them. (Well, not all.)
September 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Soo. Volunteering as boy tech.
September 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Morning.
August 29, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Yes but is it poetry? I think the reason I grew up a Samuel Delany fan, so much so it carried me through Hogg, was that connection between otherness, weird, and poetic drives. And there's something about sf as literature of ideas which is now so attractive to Lit. This is what joins
I see a discussion re: whether science fiction as a lit genre is dying. My thought about that is no BUT there are two important factors to consider: One, it was/is heavily cis-white-dude coded and that group buys fewer books now; Two, SF thrives with optimism about the future, and, well.
August 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Here's a bit of fun. To celebrate PS Publication’s publication of The White Library, a century ago today, during lockdown and in a time of increasing a-literacy, I’ve jotted a little monologue in that universe, also set in a library.

It's a free audiobook! AND epub! AND bonus soundtrack!
August 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Gippsland! Giopopsland! It's all about Gippsland. Well, actually....

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Inside Out There
Orpheus Nine, by Chris Flynn, Hachette Australia
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August 19, 2025 at 7:40 AM
A writer local to me. It pains me that this is so fluent and in so many different registers across the colleciton. Wish I could do that. Or maybe I can and I'm just having a crisis of confidence.

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August 18, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Kaliane Bradley, yes. Makes me think the answer in my case is "by then your carrot's wilted"...but then I'm older and live in a tiny Australian town. Makes me think of a story an Indian woman told of growing up in 60s Melbourne, when the only other Indian family they knew lived way across town.
July 26, 2025 at 10:33 AM
July 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
When not buying chickens, I've been reading Adam Roberts. Not a review.
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Syncope for the Devil
Lake of Darkness by Adam Roberts
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July 3, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Paul Voermans
@ppendoppo
Look I know there's not much feedback on (my) #poetry in this place, but, actually, this is a short response to the ExxonMobil "consultation" for the Barry Beach Bass Strait oil rig decomissioning and recycle. Just couldn't help but poem. open.substack.com/pub/dunningk...
June 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Something I wrote a while ago, which was lost:
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June 18, 2025 at 7:04 AM
If you love Anne Tyler. If you don't, I cannot even.
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Who Writes, Actually?
Three Days in June, by Anne Tyler
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June 16, 2025 at 5:33 AM
May 27, 2025 at 3:32 AM
My mate was putting his head under the steering wheel to plug in his ODB2 scanner (don't ask).
May 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Wondering why no Seattle panel
I asked GPT what it thought of me
And it was mean about me in 2013:

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Pope Meat Scandal – Select with Care – paul voermans
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May 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Robert Pope (runner) - Wikipedia
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May 9, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Too early volunteering at the polling booth. Party. Fried. Goodnight lovlies.

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May 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM