January 2010
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October 2008
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Espresso Publishing - Printing Books in a Digital... →
“The Sydney Morning Herald recently reported on the unveiling of a POD (print on demand) machine in a Melbourne Angus and Robertson bookshop, with other stores to get the machines soon. The machine is called an Espresso Book Machine, and was dubbed by Time Magazine “an ATM for books”. Now many out-of-print books and out-of-stock books can be printed and bound on the spot in store. All well...
August 2008
2 posts
“When I was writing Unpolished Gem I wasn’t writing a story that would sell. I...”
– Melbourne writer Alice Pung, speaking to Punchup Press on 11 August. The full article is in the works. Growing Up Asian in Australia, a new anthology of personal accounts, essays, short stories and poetry edited by Alice, is available from Black Inc.
July 2008
2 posts
June 2008
10 posts
A Suite of Articles
PUNCHUP PRESS has extensive experience writing feature articles for arts companies and their publications. Here is a selection of recent work for Sydney Theatre Company and The Australian Writers’ Guild.
The Sunshine School
When they looked back across the vast, dark gulf of the Great War to recall the years before, those glorious long light-filled days seemed a Belle Epoque indeed. And of all the possessions of the pre-war realm, Sydney was the jewel. So why were all the photographs so grim? Well, dramatic shadows were the vogue, and pictorial photographers shot to taste. That was until Harold Cazneaux and his...
May 2008
7 posts
“He’s given her a lecture when all he wanted to do was follow the white bobs of her tail disappearing into the scarlet flowers.”
Tails are terribly distracting things, but Peter Henry Lepus is a rabbit with other ideas. He’s the bright-eyed protagonist of the poems of JS Harry, whom Peter Porter calls Australia’s “most arresting” poet. And this year,...
Other lives: Laura Scrivano →
Where humanity is just a word in the dictionary and a jacaranda tree can make dreams come true…
PUNCHUP PRESS’ Laura Scrivano is directing an exciting new production of A View of Concrete, by Melbourne playwright Gareth Ellis, part of the B Sharp season at Belvoir St Theatre from November 5. Check out her blog about creating the ‘alternate reality’ of the play at...
EDITING
Rebecca: I can’t believe I didn’t use any punctuation. What was I thinking?
Mark: … Sounds like someone has a case of the 2002’s.
Long Story Short: The Abridged Memoirs of RJ Stuart & Mark Drew, May 2008, purchased at yesterday’s Zine Fair at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Cover price $2.00.
“I once played the part of a fighter mouse in the Nutcracker.”
– says PUNCHUP PRESS’ Frances Simmons. It was the 1980s and the city of Albury wasn’t ready for Frances’ style of fighting. Ballet’s loss is our gain.
