Author Archives: David Prater

About David Prater

David Prater is a Dubbo-born writer and editor. His poems and stories have appeared in a range of Australian and international journals and anthologies. His debut poetry collection, We Will Disappear, was published by Papertiger Media in 2007. His second, Leaves of Glass, based on correspondence between Walt Whitman and Australian poet Bernard O’Dowd, was published by Puncher and Wattmann in 2013. A third as-yet-untitled collection is forthcoming in 2025. Between 2001 and 2012, David was Managing Editor of Cordite Poetry Review. He now lives and works in the Netherlands, where he is working towards a poetics of The Mentalist.

game one india v australia bxb

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commencing over 3.5 in australia’s batting innings 0/33 chasing 192 off 43 overs

hopes has been devastating the legside line of pathan

gillys waiting for the shit ball from sreesanth there comin

3.6 walkin caught off the shit ball gloved to the keeper down leg, crap way to get out

4.1 no its raining ah gillys dismissal gets even more particularly disappointing

when a batsman walks it makes endless super slo replays redundant and all the technologys trappings the commentators have nothing to discuss but swisse ultravites original recipe and making

hopes puns

Lookout Peter Roebuck

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Stay tuned for the most comprehensive and insightful commentary on the greatest test series since some human first compacted a ruddy cow down into a 156g sphere and called it a kookaburra

There are only 3 MORE SLEEPS until the first test begins in Bangalore (the birth place of Anil Kumble) on wednesday.

The big news is that FOX SPORTS have signed a last minute agreement allowing them the live television rights for broadcasts into Australia. So we can all go to the pub and watch the Bangalese grass change its colours and hues depending on the angle of the sun and its relation to the clouds over the 5 days and on throughout India as the fields change test by test, ball by ball, as forms build and disband, realising the series. I was very excited to hear that Brendon Julian will be hosting Fox’s coverage. Lookout Richie Benaud.

By some unfortunate oversight on the part of the ICC the first day of the test coincides with BABBLE’S special fringe festival event – STRIKE A POSE. Will there be a big screen switched to channel FOX upstairs at BAR OPEN? Perhaps we should ask the ICC to implement one.

Tomorrow (or the next day): Absent player profiles; Tendulkar, Ponting and Waugh