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Ben Walter
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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

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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
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
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.
October 14, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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
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
Me in today's 70s wallpaper shirt plugging Lithosphere book launch at Fullers.
September 15, 2025 at 9:23 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.
September 10, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Landscape dedicated to this weekend.
August 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Spitfire sawfly larvae doing their excellent synchronised ward-off-a-predator thing.
August 28, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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
Both bases of Australian men's Christmas book market apparently sorted.
July 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Three mountains today. This was probably the nicest one.
July 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Oh really New Yorker, do you think that might be possible?
July 4, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Bit of a cover reveal - coming September!
June 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Huh so apparently rainbow clouds are a thing!
May 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Tasmania is awful never come here etc...
April 29, 2025 at 5:30 AM
self-portrait on yesterday's stroll
April 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
pinching myself a bit.
April 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Got the kids up Mt Field East. Ripper day.
March 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Big lightning just came through Tassie, kicking off a pile of new fires.

Very dry down here just now. Could be bad news.
March 12, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Not much writing done yesterday.
February 27, 2025 at 11:24 PM
We have guests.
February 8, 2025 at 6:25 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.
February 3, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Decent views though.
February 3, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Mostly pretty true.
February 3, 2025 at 5:25 AM