Colin Talbot Colin Talbot i(A212 works by) (a.k.a. Colin Maxwell Talbot; Colin Taddy Talbot)
Also writes as: Traven Collins
Born: Established: 1948 Flinders Ranges, North East South Australia, Far North South Australia, South Australia, ; Died: Ceased: 28 Oct 2018
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon The Country Jesus Colin Talbot , Melbourne : Moody Place , 2016 10512805 2016 single work novel mystery detective

'Story's Crossing, a small country town where the train doesn't stop anymore, & the highway bypasses the town. Inner Urban Man, Traven, was raised here. The place that formed him, the place that nearly doomed him.

'Traven knew he'd never return but a chance turn on a road to somewhere else, and here he is.

'The old town looks the same as he steps down... yeah, right! No, something is rotten and Traven isn't looking for trouble but trouble has a mind of its own... Old love, old betrayal, and you can't go home again. Murder will out, brussel sprout. Yadda yadda...

'Has Traven been cast as the Small Town Hamlet? That is the Question... now read on...'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 y separately published work icon 100 Greatest Australian Singles of the '60s David N. Pepperell , Colin Talbot , Melbourne : Melbourne Books , 2015 25422077 2015 single work prose

'What's a 'Krome-Plated Yabbie'? Did the 'Little Boy Lost' ever get found? When 'The Carnival is Over', do you say 'Ciao Baby?' Was 'Little Boy Sad' 'Living in a Child's Dream?' Who would answer the Royal Telephone?' These and many other important questions are answered in this book. David N. Pepperell & Colin Talbot are two Rock & Roll writers who were there!...and they answer this most important question: What were the 100 Greatest Singles made by Australian artists in the 60's? In the 1960's Australian Rock & Roll singles were as good as those made anywhere in the World. Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs' "Poison Ivy" even knocked the Beatles off the top of the charts when the Fab Four were touring here in 1964! John Lennon was so amazed he asked to meet Thorpe in person. This book attempts, for the task can only be attempted, to list the best 100 singles of that remarkable decade - the Sixties - by Australian artists. Looking at this list, every genre of music is represented - pop, country, soul, folk, instrumental, psychedelic, ballads - all that diversity which drives our interest in pop music and glues us to our radios and record players. We've tried to showcase the best, yet we expect there will always be some song that didn't make the cut that you the reader will regard as a glaring omission. Well, that's the way the turntable spins! Take a trip back to these classic records of the 60's to listen once again and remember those heady times when long hair and short skirts changed the world.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 y separately published work icon The Sweet Myst : A Sort of Detective Story Colin Talbot , St Kilda : Moody Place , 2014 7605534 2014 single work novel detective

'Traven Collins is a sort of detective. He's not really a detective, more what you might call a burnt-out case who was a writer and now who'll take most any kind of writing job to pay the rent. If it's interesting. He lives in a nice seaside suburb of Melbourne with down-and-outers, stand over merchants and ice addicts at one end and pimps, thieves, hookers and transexual rent boys at the other. Traven takes a job from an old friend to promote the visit of the last American beat poet, Duke Weston, who claims to have been a friend of Kerouac & Burroughs etc. Things are going averagely until the first death – which is seems to be a hit & run but proves to be a murder. And then the next one...that's murder too. Both of the victims were poets. With his trusty sidekick, the brilliant border collie Maynard G Crabs, Traven sets out to make sure he doesn't become embroiled in these murders most foul & most horrid. And he has to protect Lexi, the young lady who couldn't possibly be his daughter - could she? ' (Publication summary)

1 1 Springtime for Hilda Colin Talbot , 2003 single work drama
1 y separately published work icon Accept Nothing Traven Collins , Melbourne : Travenworld Books , 1997 Z1904701 1997 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon The Zen Detective Colin Talbot , Melbourne : Bookman Press , 1995 Z576839 1995 single work single work novel detective
1 y separately published work icon Traven Collins Series Colin Talbot , Melbourne : Bookman Press , 1995 27126217 1995 series - author novel
1 form y separately published work icon Sweethearts Colin Talbot , ( dir. Colin Talbot ) Melbourne : Sweetheart Film Productions , 1990 10512956 1990 single work film/TV

'A beautiful young woman, Juliette, casts a spell on her lover. Caught up in a war of style and passion, Juliette opts to go her separate way and leaves her lover searching the night for his new Juliette.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 Making the Melbourne Writers' Festival Colin Talbot , 1986 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 85 1986; (p. 18-20)
1 4 y separately published work icon Sweethearts Colin Talbot , Collingwood : Outback Press , 1978 Z284978 1978 single work novel
1 1 y separately published work icon Colin Talbot's Greatest Hits Colin Talbot , Sydney : Wild and Woolley , 1977 Z284880 1977 selected work prose
1 y separately published work icon Tabloid Story no. 20 21 January Laurie Clancy (editor), Colin Talbot (editor), Lucy Frost (editor), 1976 Z1250825 1976 periodical issue
1 Film Colin Talbot , 1975 single work short story satire
— Appears in: Tabloid Story , no. 18 1975; (p. 2-3) The Tabloid Story Pocket Book 1978; (p. 275-283)
1 y separately published work icon Tabloid Story no. 19 September Michael Wilding (editor), Colin Talbot (editor), Brian Kiernan (editor), 1975 Z1250279 1975 periodical issue
1 y separately published work icon Tabloid Story no. 18 Michael Wilding (editor), Brian Kiernan (editor), Colin Talbot (editor), Carl Harrison-Ford (editor), 1975 Z1250262 1975 periodical issue
1 y separately published work icon Tabloid Story no. 17 Brian Kiernan (editor), Colin Talbot (editor), Michael Wilding (editor), Carl Harrison-Ford (editor), 1975 Z1250206 1975 periodical issue
1 y separately published work icon Tabloid Story no. 13 April Michael Wilding (editor), Brian Kiernan (editor), Colin Talbot (editor), 1975 Z1249405 1975 periodical issue
1 1 y separately published work icon Massive Road Trauma Colin Talbot , Melbourne : Outback Press , 1975 Z284587 1975 selected work poetry prose This work is a collection of Talbot's prose, prose poetry, and poetry.
1 y separately published work icon Tabloid Story no. 12 November Michael Wilding (editor), Colin Talbot (editor), Brian Kiernan (editor), 1974 Z1249381 1974 periodical issue
2 Massive Road Trauma road trauma Colin Talbot , 1974 single work prose horror
— Appears in: Tabloid Story , no. 11 1974; (p. 1,3)

— Appears in: Massive Road Trauma 1975; (p. 186-191)
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