The Museum of Modern Love (thoughts on Heather Rose's novel, in Substack). open.substack.com/pub/geoffreyga…

Pretty thrilled that my current single 'This Old Life' was included in last night's ABC Country "Grass Roots" Program, the best new independent country music. abc.net.au/listen/program… via ABC Australia

A novel that deals with ambiguity and irony would be more likely to appeal to me as a reader than to make me sigh, and although I did wonder about whether there was enough meat on the bones, I still enjoyed #JulianBarnes's 2022 novel #ElizabethFinch gatesyread.blogspot.com/2024/01/elizab…

Elizabeth Finch (thoughts on the 2022 novel by Julian Barnes). open.substack.com/pub/geoffreyga…

There's a story behind every song, or the song is the story -- or maybe it's a case of Verse 1 versus Verse 2? See what you think. #storyteller #singersongwriter gyro.to/NorwegianDancer

I was curious to re-engage with #JohnFowles #FrenchLieutenantWoman, having read the book at the age of eighteen . Perhaps the central romance struck me more deeply then, or perhaps I appreciated the little writer-tricks more now. Thoughts here: gatesyread.blogspot.com/2024/04/french…

Thoughts on #JohnFowles' postmodern classic #FrenchLieutenantsWoman here: open.substack.com/pub/geoffreyga…

Devastated. RIP Paul Auster. My favourite writer by a country mile. #paulauster

‘Too Fast’ #music #singersongwriter #folk youtube.com/shorts/oErPqcF… via YouTube (the start of my latest little song 🎵:)

My thoughts on #PaulAuster's final novel, #Baumgartner' written before the news of Auster's death. The book centres on grief and includes many of Auster's fine qualities as a writer who combines playfulness with fictional form with depth of thought.gatesyread.blogspot.com/2024/05/baumga…

Thoughts on #PaulAuster's final novel #Baumgartner open.substack.com/pub/geoffreyga…

Looking back on some earlier book reviews. Here's something on #PaulAuster's #FourThreeTwoOne, a book I loved while also finding deeply unsettling, as I imagined Gates 4321 -- in the way that each of us have moments of forking paths. gatesyread.blogspot.com/2019/01/4321.h…

I’ve just released my new album, I’d love you to hear my stories: Willow & Rock open.spotify.com/album/1IV5EpvX…

#Question7 explores the life of a writer, the intersections of history & #RichardFlanagan's life, a near-death experience that haunts him as profoundly as his father’s suffering as a Japanese prisoner of war, and the fate of Tasmania’s Indigenous people gatesyread.blogspot.com/2024/06/questi…

If you are into Substack, I've posted my thoughts on #RichardFlanagan's latest novel #Question7 here: open.substack.com/pub/geoffreyga…

A little video clip for ‘Ballad of Charlie’ — second song on my new album. Goes out to all the troubled youth, and their teachers. #folk #singersongwriter #musicvideo youtu.be/fDeckKoGPLc?si… via YouTube

#TheFortunesofRichardMahoney has been sitting on my bookshelf for years. #HenryHandelRichardson’s first novel Maurice Guest (1908) I read once a decade. But it seemed overly long; the image on the cover looked too colonial. gatesyread.blogspot.com/2024/07/fortun…

The fact that #JavierMarías died in September 2022 has no doubt impacted on how I responded to his last novel. #BertaIsla may not to be everyone’s taste, but he was a writer at the height of his powers, with (one suspects) much more to say. gatesyread.blogspot.com/2024/07/berta-…

Taking some long service leave— that great Australian invention. First some time in the north of Europe and then walking the #CaminoDeSantiago. Travelling light with a light to heavy heart depending on the time of day ;) Currently in Hamburg where I spent 5 years in another life.

Drawing your attention to my just-released single, ‘This Goodbye’, which speaks about loss, and in another way, making the most of every day we have together. #singersongwriter #NewMusic #folksong #thisgoodbye open.spotify.com/album/71Z4RSFy…