Chris Konrad Chris Konrad i(A96506 works by) (a.k.a. Christopher Konrad)
Born: Established: 1958 Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia, ;
Gender: Male
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1 Under the Blind Sun Chris Konrad , single work poetry
1 Proverbs 7:13-16 Chris Konrad , single work poetry
1 Language Slip II i "Sandwiches britches bitches stiches", Chris Konrad , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Mozzie , June vol. 30 no. 9 2023; (p. 10)
1 Language Slip 1 i "The narcolepsy of sun", Chris Konrad , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Mozzie , June vol. 30 no. 9 2023; (p. 10)
1 Kundera i "At theend of Kundera's unimaginable book The Unbearable", Chris Konrad , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Mozzie , July vol. 31 no. 1 2023; (p. 10)
1 Bird of Beak i "Clearly, I see now the naught", Chris Konrad , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Mozzie , August vol. 31 no. 2 2023; (p. 10)
1 On the Move i "he upped stumps, literally, moved to a faraway country", Chris Konrad , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Mozzie , August vol. 31 no. 2 2023; (p. 8)
1 Blips i "Bring the night", Chris Konrad , 2023 poetry
— Appears in: The Mozzie , May vol. 30 no. 8 2023; (p. 5)
1 Found i "...he pushed his wheelbarrow along Stirling Highway making his daily", Chris Konrad , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 68 no. 1 2023; (p. 104-105)
1 Things Happen i "You sent me three photos:", Chris Konrad , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Mozzie , January vol. 30 no. 6 2023; (p. 4)
1 Water under the Bridge (after Lucy Ellmann) i "… how I don’t want this to be a memory thing . rather a you-had-to-be-there kind of thing . to feel the", Chris Konrad , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 108 2023;
1 Break My Heart at Bicheno Chris Konrad , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry d'Amour 2021 2021; (p. 48)
1 Those Who Built Me Chris Konrad , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry d'Amour 2021 2021; (p. 46)
1 The Line of It i "And there it is", Chris Konrad , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Creative Connections Anthology 2012 2021; (p. 46)
1 Starry Night Revisited i "Where Van Gough's stars were great fiery swirls", Chris Konrad , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Creative Connections Anthology 2012 2021; (p. 36)
1 Guppies i "Guppies swim and bits of me, there, in spaces", Chris Konrad , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Creative Connections Anthology 2012 2021; (p. 27)
1 If Heaven or the Sky or Any of the above i "If heaven or the sky or any of the above", Chris Konrad , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Creative Connections Anthology 2012 2021; (p. 12)
1 The Impressionist i "Fish of the reef: Clowns, Surgeon, Coral", Chris Konrad , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Creative Connections Anthology 2021 2021; (p. 36)
1 The Expressionist i "Could be a Kandinsky a Paul Klee", Chris Konrad , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Creative Connections Anthology 2021 2021; (p. 10)
1 y separately published work icon The Voyeur Chris Konrad , Bloomington : Balboa Press , 2021 24516928 2021 selected work short story

'A woman sees Dante everywhere; Karl runs and runs and cannot recapture his lost love; Celine, a Thai trans-woman, falls for an artist who is infatuated with her as he is with Ian Fairweather; an ex-con travels to Germany to meet his favourite author Herta Mueller; a soldier's wife comes back from the brink; a businessman meets a Muslim woman over a chair incident; Paul, a rat-historian, traces his 'mischief's' origins back to Kafka's Josephine the Mouse Singer. Whether a soldier's wife, someone observing life from her veranda in an everyday suburban neighbourhood, or a murder of crows regretting their lost chance at ruling the world, in this collection lies a multivariate of human, and other, experiences and voices that stretch across the borderlines of here and there, of what sounds impossible, but implacably located in the now of everyday life.

'This is a bunch of stories inhabited by real people/ beings who are all, in their own ways, undergoing a quest - whether running to or from love, from themselves and others or running towards better versions of themselves. They inhabit the world of literature and art, prisons, hospitals, war or back water towns. They are a multiplicity of wounds and celebrations where some of these stories are too big for more than one page or too many to be contained in one book. The author, as both narrator and voyeur, travels a tightrope strung between sadness and hopefulness.

'Many of these stories have been published and several have received awards, including The Soldier's Wife which won the Tod Hunter Short Story prize.'  (Publication summary)

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