Cameron Hindrum Cameron Hindrum i(A5846 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 The Quiet of the Sky : A Conversation about Poetry across and within Time and Place Cameron Hindrum , D, C. Chambial , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Teesta Review : A Journal of Poetry , November vol. 5 no. 2 2022; 'This article explores the dialogue between two poets: DC Chambial, who lives in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh and myself — Cameron Hindrum — living on the island state of Australia, Tasmania. This dialogue has been occurring broadly over the last couple of years, across which we have been swapping poems, responses to each other’s poems, and snippets of our lives and histories. For the specific purposes of this chapter, I have focused on the emergence of the poetic muse in each of us, and how — in different cultures, at different times, on different continents — the impulse of poetry has driven us both to explore our environments, our histories and the parameters of our knowledge of the world — or at least, our respective local areas within it. When asked about the constant of his island home (St Lucia) in his work, Derek Walcott replied that “What we can do as poets in terms of our honesty is simply to write within the immediate perimeter of not more than twenty miles really.” (Holland-Batt, 2021, 196) Consequently, in what follows I will be navigating the intersection of history, inspiration, context and creativity in providing a concise illustration of two poets in their place and time, as contrasting as they are, utilising poetic craft to examine respective environs that could not be more distinct from one another. To focalise this navigation further, I draw on two specific individual influences that have emerged: the work of William Wordsworth, and that of Philip Larkin. The contrasting poetics of these two giants of the canon provide illuminating and provocative punctuation for the aesthetic conversation between two poets on different sides of the planet, and their reflections on the craft of poetry.' 

(Introduction)
1 Three Fragments Cameron Hindrum , 2021 single work short story
— Appears in: Island Online - 2021 2021;
1 y separately published work icon Forty South Short Story Anthology 2020 Don Defenderfer (editor), Cameron Hindrum (editor), Lian Tanner (editor), Lindisfarne : Forty South Publishing , 2020 20872972 2020 anthology short story 'The eleven best entries from the Tasmanian Writers' Prize 2020 as judged by Lian Tanner, Cameron Hindrum and Don Defenderfer.' 
 
1 I Am a Lake Cameron Hindrum , 2017 single work drama

'Set on Tasmania’s rugged west coast, I Am A Lake is a coming of age story exploring the inextricably linked lives of Alice, Mum and Nugget. Alice is a young girl who knows her own mind; she knows she wants more, she perhaps knows more than she should, but she also knows there is something very big that she doesn't know. A deeply entrenched family secret haunts her nights, and threatens to submerge all her dreams.

'Offering glimpses of humanity and compassion in a harsh landscape; I Am A Lake is a story that is both local and universal, compelling and confronting, and ultimately redemptive.'

Source: Mudlark Theatre.
1 Stepping Back from the Edge : Reimagining Queenstown Cameron Hindrum , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Island , no. 149 2017; (p. 76-84)

'The cold. For some reason, this I remember above almost anything else. I waited most mornings on the nature strip in front of my house for the bus to school. Te cold had a savagery about it, as if it wanted to mirror the jagged edges of the hills around the town then uncrowded by trees.' (Introduction)
1 Lunch with My Daughter at the Age of 8 i "Those small eyes", Cameron Hindrum , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Communion Literary Magazine , December no. 6 2016;
1 First Voices : Visiting Wybalenna Cameron Hindrum , 2015 single work prose
— Appears in: Island , no. 142 2015; (p. 60-62)
1 Playing in the Furnace Cameron Hindrum , 2012 single work short story
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , December no. 44 2012; (p. 94-96)
1 1 y separately published work icon Private Conversations Cameron Hindrum , Mount Gravatt East : Another Lost Shark Publications , 2012 Z1922905 2012 selected work poetry
1 Leaving an Island i "Beyond the frame of my cabin window", Cameron Hindrum , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , no. 43 2012; (p. 205)
1 Piano Lessons i "Slowly, note by steady note", Cameron Hindrum , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Sotto , November 2012;
1 y separately published work icon The Blue Cathedral Cameron Hindrum , Hobart : Forty Degrees South , 2011 14625877 2011 single work novel

'Queenstown is below, stitched into the bottom of the valley, the dark geometric shapes of the Mount Lyell headframe away to his left and the vast sail of Mount Owen on the other side of the town, opposite him. The summer sky is clean and clear, vast and high, an endless cathedral ceiling. This is where he comes when he wants to hide.

'1983 - The Franklin River Dam Blockade has invited protesters to Tasmania's remote West Coast. For one local delinquent, coping with an ill father and an uncertain future, their arrival brings a time of challenge and confrontation, when Billy begins to feel everything sliding out of control.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 Written in Silver : The Tasmanian Poetry Festival Cameron Hindrum , 2010 single work prose
— Appears in: Island , Winter no. 121 2010; (p. 44-54) 'In October 2010 the Tasmanian Poetry Festival will be held in Launceston for the twenty-fifth year in a row. It was started by Tim Thorne in 1985…To mark this year’s milestone, some previous Guest Poets were asked to record their memories of attending and reading at the festival.' (p 44)
1 At Storys Creek i "Except for the ghosts of houses, an abandoned town", Cameron Hindrum , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , no. 40 2010; (p. 147)
1 At 3 AM i "Shapeless silver-shod moonlight splashes", Cameron Hindrum , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , no. 40 2010; (p. 146) Famous Reporter , no. 43 2012; (p. 204)
1 Morning Burial i "I am dressed for work.", Cameron Hindrum , 2007 single work poetry
— Appears in: Blue Giraffe , Year vol. 6 no. 2007; (p. 40)
1 Anthology Cameron Hindrum , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 102 2005; (p. 82--83)
— Review of Nine Tenths Below : UTS Writers' Anthology 2005 anthology poetry short story prose essay
1 Stepping Off the Soapbox: An Argument for Effective Dissent in the 'New' Tasmania Cameron Hindrum , 2004 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 98 2004; (p. 8-11)
1 Breaking In Cameron Hindrum , 2003 single work short story
— Appears in: Island , Summer no. 95 2003; (p. 105-108)
1 A Trick of the Light Cameron Hindrum , 1994 single work short story
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , May no. 9 1994; (p. 59-61)
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