Then she said something he'd never heard her say in the 20 years they've been together. His writing includes several short and feature-length film screenplays. Debut writers series: Trent Dalton's Boy Swallows Universe; External links. "'I need you. Oggcast (Vorbis), Norman Swan: How Australia is coping with Covid-19, Graham Norton - his new book, dogs, and wine, Doug Wilson: Keeping your brain healthy as you age, Boy Swallows Universe author Trent Dalton on his new novel, Nathan and Kevin Haines: father and son on their love for jazz. True love like this asks lovers to cast aside what is meant to be and work with what is.”, Voting for February 2020 Group Read - a title beginning with "B", Trent Dalton writes for the award-winning The Weekend Australian Magazine. He said I’m here to write stories about people. Still don't have the faintest clue what role these little terminals play beneath a car bonnet. From what I’ve seen of it, true love is hard. Someone you want to give thanks to? How could those men do that to those lambs? Content is available under CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise noted. I would have been too much of a walking fence-post back then to realise that beautiful spider was opening my brain to things I love in storytelling today: perspectives, worlds within worlds, compassion, friendships formed in the most unlikely places. It has midnight shakes and flecks of shit across a bedsheet. Barbarians on quests. Photo: supplied / Russell Shakespeare, "My wife saw a burn mark that i got on my arm the day before while cooking pancakes for the kids and she got all cross with me … and said 'it looks infected'... 'You can't go to hospital right now, I'd be so angry with you.'. Made some beautiful friends in that place and spent endless hours inside my mind, thinking up epic poems and deciding if I’d drink XXXX or VB after dinner and why I will one day appreciate every last second that I’m a journalist because anything after storeman work is fine gravy. Then dear wise Charlotte goes up to the big web in the sky and young me realises that we can die and live on at the same time. Reading endless paperback books in a small room. It was a conversation with his wife over ham and cheese toasties that kicked off Australian writer Trent Dalton's newspaper column about the power of the human spirit in these difficult times. That makes me think of mum an hour away, and my brother across the [Queensland] border and then I think about my own kids. Please feel free to drop a note, a yarn, a line, a word to me at thebunkertales@gmail.com or send a direct message here on Instagram. Your words know she’s pissed at you. The footy died off in my mid-teens when, after several concussions, a surgeon said the thinness of my skull and my jelly-bean muscles weren’t good for rugby league and I took to writing a lot of bad poetry. The stories sent in for Tales From the Bunker have been really beautiful, Trent says. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. I still have about 20 inch-thick notebooks from those bad teenage poetry years filled with poems with titles like 'Battery-Operated Heart' and 'Fuck I’m Sad Just Ask Me'. The poem was so astoundingly okay that my older brother thought it must have been plagiarised and I thought I might be secretly on to something. It's just a very, very interesting time for all of us. Last edited on 25 September 2020, at 15:46. Is there someone you think deserves a shoutout? Trent Dalton is a staff writer for the Weekend Australian magazine and a former assistant editor of the Courier Mail. His journalism has twice been nominated for a United Nations of Australia Media Peace Award, and his debut novel, By Sea & Stars: The Story of the First Fleet, An Australian Journalist Investigates His Past for Debut Novel. Best grammatical advice came when I fell in love with my journo wife in the very moment she was laughing and showing me, once and for all, where to put apostrophes in my copy. BREAKING (GENTLY): Just want to tell y’all about a new series I’m writing for the Weekend Australian Magazine. 'Soooo,' he whispered, following up his first profound declaration. The Boy Swallows Universe author describes himself as an overthinker and says he's recently been waking in the night, haunted by a particular television news story. I just wake up and I think of that guy. Love's all you need. All Our Shimmering Skies - Trent Dalton's keenly awaited follow-up to Boy Swallows Universe - was due out this June, but its release has now been pushed back to September. Your mid-year top 5 - 10 titles of 2018 - AUSTRALIAN Authors only. Most of us don’t.”, “Dormant true love, there for everybody, just waiting to be found, erupting when the thread of existence collides with chance and the eyes of two lovers meet. His latest feature film screenplay, Home, is a love story inspired by his non-fiction collection Detours: Stories from the Street (2011), the culmination of three months immersed in Brisbane's homeless community, the proceeds of which went back to the 20 people featured within its pages. I still have about 20 inch-thick notebooks from those bad teenage poetry years filled with poems with titles like 'Battery-Operated Heart' and 'Fuck I’m Sad Just Ask Me'. I want to hear from you. Monday, 18th June 2018. Love is all you need. I'm just thinking too much, way too much.". Welcome back. Or is all that lamb stuff more about the men who do the slaughtering? Boom. And they couldn't him because he was coughing his guts up, this poor guy. #covid_19 #livethroughthis #writethroughthis, A post shared by Trent Dalton Author (@trentdaltonauthor) on Mar 26, 2020 at 11:33pm PDT. I’ve long thought about a quiet evening with FBI agent Clarice Starling from Silence of the Lambs. That's our mantra (once again) as we welcome a new year full of irresistible reading.... “Maybe we'd all be much more effective communicators if we all shut up more.”, “I’m a good man,’ Slim says. ‘But I’m a bad man too. https://www.wheelercentre.com/news/working-with-words-trent-dalton He talks to Kim Hill about his love of diving deep, the myth of altogether 'bad' people and his upcoming book Shimmering Skies. That is my go-to Covid vision. Refresh and try again. Together alone. When I'm doing journalism, the first blank page of the document must begin with 'Story Trent Dalton'. "People are thinking a lot about their past and a lot about their lives and the things they haven't done. Please send me a tale. I spent the entire year after I left high school in an auto-electrical shed in industrial Virginia, north Brisbane, counting auto-electrical terminals of ever-changing colours into bags of 100. 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