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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Writing Wild Bleak Bohemia
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'Years ago Hans Magnus Enzensberger wrote an essay called ‘Where do Poems Come From?’ I can’t remember whether he answered the question. Certainly the origins of literary creation still remain mysterious: the muse, the subconscious, inspiration, hard work, calculated marketing, a publisher’s commission, a tentative suggestion, a pressing request. Sometimes you find yourself taken down a track you never intended. Sometimes a number of factors combine to point you in a certain direction. Wild Bleak Bohemia developed from a number of different sources, and in the process evolved its own shape.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Wild about Books : Essays on Books and Writing Michael Wilding , Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2019 17393108 2019 selected work essay

    'Wild About Books – essays on books and writing, about reading them and writing them, and publishing them and collecting them and preserving them in libraries. Essays about the shared experience of literature, the art and craft of writing, the pleasures of reading, the survival of five hundred years of print culture, together with reflections and suggestions on creative writing, on what to do, and how to do it, and on what I’ve done, and why I wrote this book and how I wrote that one, together with anecdotes from other writers’ experiences, from writers in person, and from the books they have written.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

    Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2019
    pg. 128-135
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