Ben Walter
@benwaltez.bsky.social
Writer in Lutruwita/Tasmania. Author of What Fear Was, Lithosphere. Walkley winner. Former Fiction Editor, Island. Words in The Kenyon Review, 3:AM Magazine, Poetry Ireland Review.
Experiments | Stories | Essays | Nature writing
https://ben-walter.com/
Experiments | Stories | Essays | Nature writing
https://ben-walter.com/
Ridiculous, but somehow this rotten poetry book is still topping the bestsellers at Fullers six weeks after launch…
October 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Ridiculous, but somehow this rotten poetry book is still topping the bestsellers at Fullers six weeks after launch…
Bird bluesky, does anybody recognise this interesting ascending call? It's a new one to me. Huon valley in southern Lutruwita, possibly hiding in the grassy field next door.
October 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Bird bluesky, does anybody recognise this interesting ascending call? It's a new one to me. Huon valley in southern Lutruwita, possibly hiding in the grassy field next door.
I wrote to Tony Burke about the closure of Meanjin, and finally received a reply from the office of Jason Clare, who had been forwarded the message because it was an issue for higher education, rather than the arts (!).
This is a wholly embarrassing and inadequate buck pass and response.
This is a wholly embarrassing and inadequate buck pass and response.
October 14, 2025 at 5:30 AM
I wrote to Tony Burke about the closure of Meanjin, and finally received a reply from the office of Jason Clare, who had been forwarded the message because it was an issue for higher education, rather than the arts (!).
This is a wholly embarrassing and inadequate buck pass and response.
This is a wholly embarrassing and inadequate buck pass and response.
Lithosphere is launched! Now in a (surprising) number of bookshops all over the country. Would love you to pick one up if you ever like to dip into poetry...
September 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Lithosphere is launched! Now in a (surprising) number of bookshops all over the country. Would love you to pick one up if you ever like to dip into poetry...
Play one game of AFL football and you'll probably have a wikipedia page, but if you win the Miles Franklin Award this year you can forget about it.
September 16, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Play one game of AFL football and you'll probably have a wikipedia page, but if you win the Miles Franklin Award this year you can forget about it.
Me in today's 70s wallpaper shirt plugging Lithosphere book launch at Fullers.
September 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Me in today's 70s wallpaper shirt plugging Lithosphere book launch at Fullers.
Ha, I pointed out how shoddy this piece in Quadrant was to Jane Rawson and she went and made them correct a pile of stuff about Island.
September 10, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Ha, I pointed out how shoddy this piece in Quadrant was to Jane Rawson and she went and made them correct a pile of stuff about Island.
Landscape dedicated to this weekend.
August 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Landscape dedicated to this weekend.
Spitfire sawfly larvae doing their excellent synchronised ward-off-a-predator thing.
August 28, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Spitfire sawfly larvae doing their excellent synchronised ward-off-a-predator thing.
Fashion bluesky - can anyone tell me if the collar that Eartha Kitt is wearing here in 1952 has a specific name?
August 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Fashion bluesky - can anyone tell me if the collar that Eartha Kitt is wearing here in 1952 has a specific name?
Both bases of Australian men's Christmas book market apparently sorted.
July 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Both bases of Australian men's Christmas book market apparently sorted.
Three mountains today. This was probably the nicest one.
July 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Three mountains today. This was probably the nicest one.
Oh really New Yorker, do you think that might be possible?
July 4, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Oh really New Yorker, do you think that might be possible?
Bit of a cover reveal - coming September!
June 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Bit of a cover reveal - coming September!
Huh so apparently rainbow clouds are a thing!
May 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Huh so apparently rainbow clouds are a thing!
Tasmania is awful never come here etc...
April 29, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Tasmania is awful never come here etc...
self-portrait on yesterday's stroll
April 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
self-portrait on yesterday's stroll
pinching myself a bit.
April 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
pinching myself a bit.
Got the kids up Mt Field East. Ripper day.
March 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Got the kids up Mt Field East. Ripper day.
Big lightning just came through Tassie, kicking off a pile of new fires.
Very dry down here just now. Could be bad news.
Very dry down here just now. Could be bad news.
March 12, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Big lightning just came through Tassie, kicking off a pile of new fires.
Very dry down here just now. Could be bad news.
Very dry down here just now. Could be bad news.
Not much writing done yesterday.
February 27, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Not much writing done yesterday.
Uh-oh. Big pile of lightning strikes in the Tassie WHA. Looks like there's not much rain coming with it - fires already being reported further west, including an Advice warning at Zeehan.
February 3, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Uh-oh. Big pile of lightning strikes in the Tassie WHA. Looks like there's not much rain coming with it - fires already being reported further west, including an Advice warning at Zeehan.
Decent views though.
February 3, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Decent views though.
Mostly pretty true.
February 3, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Mostly pretty true.