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davey dreamnation the home of david prater skip to the content menu close o hai about blog contact newsletter portfolio wiki search for search mastodon linkedin davey dreamnation davey dreamnation the home of david prater mastodon linkedin search menu search for search close welcome i m david prater an australian writer living in fryslân about me i was born in 1972 in dubbo australia the rest as they say is history read on my portfolio browse a portfolio of my recent not so recent and long running creative projects read on my books transition vamps my third poetry collection spans three decades of my writing life with poems set variously in korea sweden the netherlands and australia read more leaves of glass inspired by letters between walt whitman and bernard o dowd my second poetry collection samples plunders and re imagines both poets works read more we will disappear my debut poetry collection navigates the landscapes of loneliness and solitude drawing on ten years of transformative travelogues and elegies read more reviews and testimonials prater s half rhymes alliteration and shuffle of syntax are heady there s often a parade of phonemes teasing you you try to wrestle hold the words but they spin you around as if you were a jack russell hanging onto a little boy s tailcoat alicia sometimes reviewing we will disappea r on abc radio national relentlessly racy prater hits hard and fast in his attempts to keep up with the wrenching juggernaut of our times justin clemens reviewing we will disappear in the australian in our information saturated hyper connected post industrial world there is so much to take in and prater is able to call its tune ryan scott reviewing we will disappear in cordite poetry review leaves of glass is a complex dense and multi faceted book but the premium prater puts on fun means it is always a rollicking read it is a book that is serious but never takes itself too seriously liam ferney reviewing leaves of glass in southerly prater is merciless in pinpointing the atavism that binds our current version of nationalism to its nineteenth century archetypes the virtue of this book is that it so effortlessly inhabits both periods simultaneously john hawke reviewing leaves of glass in westerly leaves of glass is a linguistically and structurally nimble work constantly surprising and definitively idiosyncratic fiona wright reviewing leaves of glass in the australian the o dowd whitman correspondence provides scaffolding for this collection which is nevertheless a masterful engagement with complex poetic techniques of voice and structure sally evans reviewing leaves of glass in cordite poetry review prater s poems flow like the text on cnn but beautifully derek motion reviewing abendland there is even a translation of whitman s o captain my captain into the language of lolcats that is rewriting the poem as though by a cat gowayz ob lol o kitteh meh kitteh graeme miles reviewing leaves of glass in australian book review the unbounded expansion of possibilities of language poetics and meaning gives the poems in transition vamps their momentum the poems move with the stutter step of a mouse s scroll wheel and the teleportation of a clicked link liam ferney introduction to transition vamps forthcoming my substack newsletter i publish a weekly newsletter on substack featuring long form content about music writing cycling family history and whatever else comes to mind check out the latest posts and if you like what you see feel free to subscribe blog updates 2 may 2026 transition vamps preface 24 april 2026 transition vamps the testimonial 20 april 2026 trip report elfstedenfietstocht part 1 4 april 2026 transition vamps official cover reveal 15 october 2025 film review one battle after another 2025 18 september 2025 book announcement transition vamps read my poems online many of my poems have appeared in print and online journals both in australia and internationally more info my poems in anthologies some of my poems have also been republished in annual and bespoke anthologies more info special editions morgenland the poems in my limited edition chapbook morgenland 2007 were written in the republic of korea and japan in 2005 06 as part of an asialink residency read more self published chapbooks abendland poems written while travelling in the united states and europe in 2005 self published in print in 2006 and digitally reissued in 2012 read online the happy farang poems written while backpacking through thailand and laos in 1999 self published in print in 2000 and lovingly restored in 2012 read online övergången a bilingual chapbook featuring ten poems in english and swedish with translations provided by boel schenlaer and linda bönström read online tjugotvå twenty two poems written in sweden and sent to subscribers to my short lived poem of the week newsletter in 2011 12 read online 1999 2026 david prater theme by anders norén about blog contact newsletter portfolio 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