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Hugo Branley

Hugo Branley currently lives in Canberra. He has previously written for Voiceworks, The Sydney University Poetry Anthology, Demos, Woroni, and rip publishing’s Knack. He writes both with jingling and without.

On a remark of Wittgenstein’s

“If I had planned it, I should never have made the sun at all… And if there were only the moon there would be no reading and writing.” A metaphor is a sign of weakness she says the...

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Poetry

How to Create a Demos

Emphatic Exordium The concept of a ‘people’ is a distinctly weird one. Everything about it seems tendentious and unclear; even grammatically, the expression “a people” appears to t...

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Essays
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