Gordon Duncan
@gordunc44.bsky.social
Books, music and nature photography. Can’t be @rsed talking about politics.
Member of Friends of Morwell National Park and Entomological Society of Victoria.
Reside on unceded Gunaikurnai Lands.
Member of Friends of Morwell National Park and Entomological Society of Victoria.
Reside on unceded Gunaikurnai Lands.
Reposted by Gordon Duncan
‘Tomorrow, again’ is a protest poem of quiet defiance and queer hope.
Head to rabbitpoetry.com/shop to grab a copy of the Rabbit 2025 Annual.
Head to rabbitpoetry.com/shop to grab a copy of the Rabbit 2025 Annual.
January 6, 2026 at 5:42 AM
‘Tomorrow, again’ is a protest poem of quiet defiance and queer hope.
Head to rabbitpoetry.com/shop to grab a copy of the Rabbit 2025 Annual.
Head to rabbitpoetry.com/shop to grab a copy of the Rabbit 2025 Annual.
Reposted by Gordon Duncan
Happy New Year from Magabala Books 🌈
Poems 'NEW YEARS WISH (PART I)' and 'NEW YEARS WISH (PART II)' from poetry collection 'Kindred' (2019) by Kirli Saunders 🖤
Poems 'NEW YEARS WISH (PART I)' and 'NEW YEARS WISH (PART II)' from poetry collection 'Kindred' (2019) by Kirli Saunders 🖤
January 1, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Happy New Year from Magabala Books 🌈
Poems 'NEW YEARS WISH (PART I)' and 'NEW YEARS WISH (PART II)' from poetry collection 'Kindred' (2019) by Kirli Saunders 🖤
Poems 'NEW YEARS WISH (PART I)' and 'NEW YEARS WISH (PART II)' from poetry collection 'Kindred' (2019) by Kirli Saunders 🖤
Can't go through 2025 without losing at least one battle with something sharp. This time it was my left thumbnail vs a pair of secateurs. And I was wearing good gardening gloves at the time. Big ouch afterwards. Almost as bad as getting the anaesthetic injections in my thumb prior to the stitches.
December 31, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Can't go through 2025 without losing at least one battle with something sharp. This time it was my left thumbnail vs a pair of secateurs. And I was wearing good gardening gloves at the time. Big ouch afterwards. Almost as bad as getting the anaesthetic injections in my thumb prior to the stitches.
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This year at #EnbyLife Journal we want to publish even more non-binary & gender diverse creatives. This means we’re going to need a bit more money!
Please consider a one-off or monthly donation to #EnbyLife Journal to help keep us running 💖 Head to ko-fi.com/enbylifejournal or the link in our bio.
Please consider a one-off or monthly donation to #EnbyLife Journal to help keep us running 💖 Head to ko-fi.com/enbylifejournal or the link in our bio.
December 30, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I think it's close enough to the end of the year to mention my highlights for the year.
Starting with music there's one concert, three new cd's, one lost if not mythical cd, one music video and a mention of a favourite read from last year.
Starting with music there's one concert, three new cd's, one lost if not mythical cd, one music video and a mention of a favourite read from last year.
December 30, 2025 at 4:22 AM
I think it's close enough to the end of the year to mention my highlights for the year.
Starting with music there's one concert, three new cd's, one lost if not mythical cd, one music video and a mention of a favourite read from last year.
Starting with music there's one concert, three new cd's, one lost if not mythical cd, one music video and a mention of a favourite read from last year.
Brief glimpse of a wombat on the Fosters Gully Nature Walk at Morwell National Park. There's a bare patch on its back which indicates it isn't in full health. The Friends Group had received reports of an unwell wombat in the area so it was helpful to get a look at it.
December 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Brief glimpse of a wombat on the Fosters Gully Nature Walk at Morwell National Park. There's a bare patch on its back which indicates it isn't in full health. The Friends Group had received reports of an unwell wombat in the area so it was helpful to get a look at it.
Oh FFS. I've just heard this played as a jaunty little piano tune.
Fairytale of New York by The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl. Love this song but it’s still November FFS. youtu.be/j9jbdgZidu8
The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York (Official Video)
YouTube video by ThePoguesOfficial
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December 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Oh FFS. I've just heard this played as a jaunty little piano tune.
Public Service Announcement.
Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah is not a Christmas Carol.
Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah is not a Christmas Carol.
December 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Public Service Announcement.
Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah is not a Christmas Carol.
Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah is not a Christmas Carol.
This is one of the most interesting author book recommendation lists I've seen. Apart from Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain and J.L. Carr's A Month in the Country which I love and heartily recommend, there's a heap of other titles I need to catch up with. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
‘This extraordinary story never goes out of fashion’: 30 authors on the books they give to everyone
Colm Tóibín, Robert Macfarlane, Elif Shafak, Michael Rosen and more share the novels, poetry and memoirs that make the perfect gift
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:09 AM
This is one of the most interesting author book recommendation lists I've seen. Apart from Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain and J.L. Carr's A Month in the Country which I love and heartily recommend, there's a heap of other titles I need to catch up with. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
Vale Bob "Bongo" Starkie from Skyhooks. In the early Countdown years I was a Skyhooks, not a Sherbet fan. Only a couple of years later The Saints would release I'm Stranded and the world changed overnight. Despite that, I still have affection for those early Skyhooks years. youtu.be/E03HpnmoyZ0?...
Toorak Cowboy (2024 Remaster)
YouTube video by Skyhooks - Topic
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Vale Bob "Bongo" Starkie from Skyhooks. In the early Countdown years I was a Skyhooks, not a Sherbet fan. Only a couple of years later The Saints would release I'm Stranded and the world changed overnight. Despite that, I still have affection for those early Skyhooks years. youtu.be/E03HpnmoyZ0?...
Reposted by Gordon Duncan
⚡ 24 November - 1 December ⚡
We’re running our first ever Black Friday promo… our own way! Blak Friday online now: www.magabala.com
This week, every online order goes into the draw to have your entire purchase fully refunded. One lucky customer = their whole order free!!
We’re running our first ever Black Friday promo… our own way! Blak Friday online now: www.magabala.com
This week, every online order goes into the draw to have your entire purchase fully refunded. One lucky customer = their whole order free!!
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
⚡ 24 November - 1 December ⚡
We’re running our first ever Black Friday promo… our own way! Blak Friday online now: www.magabala.com
This week, every online order goes into the draw to have your entire purchase fully refunded. One lucky customer = their whole order free!!
We’re running our first ever Black Friday promo… our own way! Blak Friday online now: www.magabala.com
This week, every online order goes into the draw to have your entire purchase fully refunded. One lucky customer = their whole order free!!
Until now all of the books in Polygon Book's excellent Darkland Tales series have been published in Australia with their original minimalist covers which brilliantly reflect the intent of the series. Not Benbecula which Text have published with the bloody awful cover on the left.
November 20, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Until now all of the books in Polygon Book's excellent Darkland Tales series have been published in Australia with their original minimalist covers which brilliantly reflect the intent of the series. Not Benbecula which Text have published with the bloody awful cover on the left.
"The hammering of guns, wrestling, locked in conflict
Like brute, stone gods of old struggling confusedly"
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Like brute, stone gods of old struggling confusedly"
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Poem of the week: Leaves by Frederic Manning
A landscape of illusory peace is depicted just before the guns of battle reach it in the first world war
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November 17, 2025 at 9:58 AM
"The hammering of guns, wrestling, locked in conflict
Like brute, stone gods of old struggling confusedly"
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Like brute, stone gods of old struggling confusedly"
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
I bawled my eyes listening to this live because included amongst the 374 pipers are family friends and members of the Morwell Caledonian Pipe Band who will be playing at my father's funeral tomorrow morning. Dad is a life member and former pipe major of the band. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
374 bagpipers break world record on 774 ABC Radio Melbourne Drive - ABC listen
374 bagpipers have gathered in Federation Square to break the world record for most bagpipers playing in one place, heard live on 774 Drive with Ali Moore.
www.abc.net.au
November 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
I bawled my eyes listening to this live because included amongst the 374 pipers are family friends and members of the Morwell Caledonian Pipe Band who will be playing at my father's funeral tomorrow morning. Dad is a life member and former pipe major of the band. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
A little video of one the Striated Pardalotes which has been nesting in a hanging pot in our garden. After they moved in I fenced around the pot and then roughly placed some wire over the fence to protect the nesting area. The added bonus is that it gives them a safe perch just outside the nest.
November 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
A little video of one the Striated Pardalotes which has been nesting in a hanging pot in our garden. After they moved in I fenced around the pot and then roughly placed some wire over the fence to protect the nesting area. The added bonus is that it gives them a safe perch just outside the nest.
Had an amazing time sitting in the front row seeing Bleak Squad at the Melbourne Recital Centre last night. The photo was taken during the encore when they played Summer High, a Magic Dirt song which featured Roland S Howard.
October 30, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Had an amazing time sitting in the front row seeing Bleak Squad at the Melbourne Recital Centre last night. The photo was taken during the encore when they played Summer High, a Magic Dirt song which featured Roland S Howard.
June Lockhart, always fondly remembered by me as Maureen Robinson in Lost in Space, has passed away at the age of 100. Love this story about her from The Guardian.
October 26, 2025 at 7:09 AM
June Lockhart, always fondly remembered by me as Maureen Robinson in Lost in Space, has passed away at the age of 100. Love this story about her from The Guardian.
“Day to myself. Will I see anyone. Will I see anyone. Don’t care. Sounds rude, it’s not rude, it’s not antisocial, I don’t need to see anyone.”
Nova Scotia House - Charlie Porter
Nova Scotia House - Charlie Porter
October 26, 2025 at 4:34 AM
“Day to myself. Will I see anyone. Will I see anyone. Don’t care. Sounds rude, it’s not rude, it’s not antisocial, I don’t need to see anyone.”
Nova Scotia House - Charlie Porter
Nova Scotia House - Charlie Porter
First Eastern Koel heard this morning. The monotonous sound of summer has arrived.
October 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
First Eastern Koel heard this morning. The monotonous sound of summer has arrived.
Ooohhh!!!
Found this on my library app.
Josephine Rowe reading her leading her latest work, Little World.
Ooohhh!!!
Found this on my library app.
Josephine Rowe reading her leading her latest work, Little World.
Ooohhh!!!
October 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Ooohhh!!!
Found this on my library app.
Josephine Rowe reading her leading her latest work, Little World.
Ooohhh!!!
Found this on my library app.
Josephine Rowe reading her leading her latest work, Little World.
Ooohhh!!!
Reposted by Gordon Duncan
Magabala is thrilled to announce the acquisition of award-winning Mununjali and Dutch author, editor and educator, Ellen van Neerven's first middle-grade novel.
'Ruby's Web' will be published by Magabala, February 24, 2026.
Read more: bit.ly/4nS7ML0
'Ruby's Web' will be published by Magabala, February 24, 2026.
Read more: bit.ly/4nS7ML0
October 16, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Magabala is thrilled to announce the acquisition of award-winning Mununjali and Dutch author, editor and educator, Ellen van Neerven's first middle-grade novel.
'Ruby's Web' will be published by Magabala, February 24, 2026.
Read more: bit.ly/4nS7ML0
'Ruby's Web' will be published by Magabala, February 24, 2026.
Read more: bit.ly/4nS7ML0
New addition with added story.
I ordered Boy Parts from its original UK publisher back during the Covid lockdowns. It never arrived; one of a few no shows at the time. Hard times, small publisher, I didn't ask for a replacement. Was surprised to find the Faber reprint in my local QBD today.
I ordered Boy Parts from its original UK publisher back during the Covid lockdowns. It never arrived; one of a few no shows at the time. Hard times, small publisher, I didn't ask for a replacement. Was surprised to find the Faber reprint in my local QBD today.
October 15, 2025 at 6:34 AM
New addition with added story.
I ordered Boy Parts from its original UK publisher back during the Covid lockdowns. It never arrived; one of a few no shows at the time. Hard times, small publisher, I didn't ask for a replacement. Was surprised to find the Faber reprint in my local QBD today.
I ordered Boy Parts from its original UK publisher back during the Covid lockdowns. It never arrived; one of a few no shows at the time. Hard times, small publisher, I didn't ask for a replacement. Was surprised to find the Faber reprint in my local QBD today.
With the prevalence of low attention streaming services it seems crazy that someone would release a triple-album, but Jeff Tweedy has done it with Twilight Override. And succeeded. This fantastic homage to Velvet Underground and watching bands in dives opens the 3rd album. youtu.be/GJdpGt35DMY?...
Jeff Tweedy "Lou Reed Was My Babysitter" Official Video (Twilight Override)
YouTube video by wilco
youtu.be
October 13, 2025 at 6:40 AM
With the prevalence of low attention streaming services it seems crazy that someone would release a triple-album, but Jeff Tweedy has done it with Twilight Override. And succeeded. This fantastic homage to Velvet Underground and watching bands in dives opens the 3rd album. youtu.be/GJdpGt35DMY?...
I've been let loose in @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social again.
October 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I've been let loose in @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social again.