Patrick McGowan

I've been writing pretty much full time for ten years- after I completed a Master of Creative Arts (Prose) at the University of Wollongong. Previously I worked as metallurgist, health food retailer, government bureaucrat, diplomat and entrepreneur.

While my work overseas for the Australian government took me on postings to many places including Europe, Asia and Africa, I like to write about the contemporary Australian experience. I began writing fiction in the nineties, had some short stories published, then put my writing on hold to give full attention to my career.

I'm a taiji enthusiast, avid jade collector, and a keen follower of William Gass and his theory of sentences, that each sentence has a soul, and that all good literature comes from the well-constructed sentence.

I live in near the Royal National Park, south of Sydney.

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Twitter: @_pjmcgowan
Blog: http://pjmcgowan.com/

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• Religion Sex Violence on Dec. 28, 2015
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  As a fictive dream, it’s well-crafted, it’s crafty, it’s crisp, it’s well-paced, it’s fine language, it’s Irish, it’s Sydney, it’s international, it’s contemporary, it’s graphic (rsv), it’s a page turner, it’s rich in detail, and its title is apt. good one
  
• Interpretations on Jan. 03, 2017
  
  When discussing imagism, I always go back to Pound, an original member of the Imagist movement. He once commented that poets before him used images as ornaments whereas, for the Imagists, he claimed ‘the image is itself the speech. The image is the word beyond formulated language.’ This chapbook, Interpretations, is written by one fluent in the language of image. G D Master’s attention to sensory detail and avoidance of the abstractions and confidences of confessional poetry is refreshing. This Hopperesque project, which renders objects and moments drawn from photographs found in journals, takes us on a pleasant and satisfying journey through modern life with the irony that, as Master admits through his choice of title, despite the images speaking for themselves, the poems become interpretations of life, I suppose much in the hermeneutic tradition that all history is the interpretation of history. I can appreciate the image experiment in the different poetic forms, probably mostly in the sonnets, which come across as cleanest and sharpest. It could be that this form demands a closer editing. Though I also like the airiness of his free verse.
  
• Religion Sex Violence on Jan. 02, 2018
  
  Hey, Patrick, here's your target audience! http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/vigilante-paedophilehunter-says-it-wasnt-worth-it/news-story/291d208f68454fac595e5c7e644f6f48