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Kirk Marshall Kirk Marshall i(A118164 works by)
Born: Established: 1985 Brisbane, Queensland, ;
Gender: Male
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1 How To Unfuck Your Heart: i "She will leave the house. She will travel overseas to attend her half-brother’s wedding (in the ten-and-a-", Kirk Marshall , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Otoliths , 1 November no. 51 2018;
1 Moths Kirk Marshall , 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: The Grapple Annual No. 1 2014;
1 The Death, Rise and Deliverance of Greer Cabot Kirk Marshall , 2014 single work short story mystery
— Appears in: Subtropical Suspense : 16 Scorching Tales of Mystery and Mayhem 2014; (p. 269-323)
1 Watch Every Drop : A Community Service Announcement Composed for Those Who Survived the Fall Kirk Marshall , 2013 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: Verity La , April 2013;
1 Avalanche at the Astor, Bodies Beneath the Marquee Kirk Marshall , 2013 single work short story
— Appears in: Island , Winter no. 133 2013; (p. 40-46)
1 y separately published work icon The Signatory Kirk Marshall , Cheltenham : Skylight Press , 2012 Z1894651 2012 single work novella humour 'The Signatory is a wild and enthralling novella from Kirk Marshall, an emerging Australian writer and editor of the Red Leaves bi-lingual literary journal. This mind-bending tale of Scottish cryptozoology must be read to be believed as it blusters and dallies with the mad antics of the strange British dilettante, Sebastian Sackworth. It is at times reminiscent of the nonsense literature of Lewis Carroll et al - and yet displaying more contemporary (dare we say) "borgesian" stylistics. A delightfully absurd dramatis personae pits together a misanthropic anthropologist and a lusty Italian ornithologist on a madcap search for a rare Red Swan, soon to be joined by an Icelandic recluse, a chimpanzee, and a notorious pirate, to name a few. Along the way, Marshall manages somehow to mix in odd polemics on public transport sex, the science of moats, and the mysterious highland landscape.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 Midnight Jackdaw on the Jackpot Blacktop (From a work-in-progress) i "The fact was that everyone was acting on an intention to kill. The knuckles in", Kirk Marshall , 2012 extract poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 August vol. 39 no. 0 2012;
1 Whereupon the High Sea’s Many Girts We Were Taken By Storm, Or, The Time Tuvalu Came To Stay : An End-of-century Dispatch, Composed during Wartime, by a Sixteen-year-old Dilettante Kirk Marshall , 2012 single work prose
— Appears in: Otoliths , 1 November no. 27 2012;
1 Over Milk Wood : A Story of Verse as Retold in Snatches of Remembering Kirk Marshall , 2012 single work short story
— Appears in: Otoliths , May no. 25 2012;
1 y separately published work icon Carnivalesque, And Other Stories Kirk Marshall , Australia : Black Rider Press , 2011 Z1823228 2011 selected work short story

'Enter a carnivalesque world where reality is phantasmagoric in vision. This is a rich, riotous world of heartbroken sinners and first-time saints.

'The title novella concerns the Rabelaisian exploits of one Efim Barnum Bank Zaslavsky - a Russian-Jewish carnival exhibitionist - and his anachronistic, wandering gypsy caravan in pursuit of a fabled wolf across contemporary Japan. Both peril and fortune beckon this travelling comic-tragedian sideshow riot.

'The other stories in this collection also favour individuals trapped within worlds both real and mythic, those struggling to identify sense amidst chaos, and competing to dispossess themselves of pains both present and forgotten against new carnivalesque terrains. These are the world's tiny, sordid, tormented and beautiful people with their feet of clay: unsung heroes who, upon discovering the illegitimacy of their plights for love and glory, maintain their purpose - if only for the value of the joke.' (Source: Publisher's website)
1 Validation Kirk Marshall , 2011 single work short story
— Appears in: Wet Ink , no. 23 2011; (p. 42-46)
1 y separately published work icon Red Leaves : English-Language/Japanese Bi-Lingual Literary Journal Koyo Kirk Marshall (editor), Yasuhiro Horiuchi (editor), 2010 Melbourne : A Cowboy Named Molasses Publishing , 2010- Z1894642 2010 periodical Based out of Melbourne, Australia and Tokyo, Japan, Red Leaves / 紅葉 is edited by writers Kirk Marshall and Yasuhiro Horiuchi, and designed by Liberty Browne. The inaugural issue was translated by Sunny Suh, Asami Nishimura and Joo Whan Suh. The journal is produced independently through the small press imprint, A Cowboy Named Molasses Publishing, and was first published and launched in May, 2010, during the 2010 Emerging Writers' Festival in Melbourne.
1 Bear Vs. Plane! Kirk Marshall , 2010 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: FourW , no. 21 2010; (p. 109-111) Verity La , July 2010; Award Winning Australian Writing 2011 2011;
1 Brow by Brow : An Interview with Ronnie Scott Kirk Marshall (interviewer), 2010 single work interview
— Appears in: Verity La , October 2010;
1 The Artist at Frankston and Lowe Kirk Marshall , 2009 single work short story
— Appears in: Dotdotdash , Summer no. 2 2009; (p. 64-66)
1 ‘Soliloquy for One Dead' [Criminal Featherweight Remix] Criminal Featherweight Remix Kirk Marshall , 2009 single work short story
— Appears in: Through the Clock's Workings 2009; (p. 113-117)
1 Suite of Haiku i "Electricity:", Kirk Marshall , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , November no. 6 2009;
1 Wonder and Whisky Sour Off Tapachula Bay: Kirk Marshall , 2009 single work prose
— Appears in: Otoliths , 1 May no. 13 2009;
1 A Question of Submersion : A Romance of Deep-sea Exploration at 130 Feet Kirk Marshall , 2009 single work short story
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging , no. 28 2009; (p. 83-90)
1 Much Fun to Be Had at Humanity's Favourite Beach Kirk Marshall , 2008 single work short story
— Appears in: Verandah , no. 23 2008; (p. 74-78)
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