well worth listing to (about 18 minutes)

(during this podcast the author reads excerpts from the book…)

“The ALP’s Graham Perrett represents the federal seat of Moreton in Queensland and was elected to parliament in November last year. Now Graham is also a published novelist. His first book, The Twelfth Fish, is about a school teacher who is posted to the small town of Lawson in outback Queensland.”

Publications
Title: TheTwelfth Fish
Author: Graham Perrett
Publisher: Vulgar Press
ISBN 9780 9775 0476 3

Presenter
Peter Mares

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Review Vulgar Press at

http://www.vulgar.com.au/

Established in 1999, Vulgar Press is dedicated to the publication of working-class and other radical forms of writing. We publish novels, non-fiction, history and poetry and are not limited by genre.

See the vulgar books link for information on our list.

We are publishing a good proportion of books for the secondary school/teen market and we have begun a series of radical histories, starting with Radical Melbourne and moving around the capital cities of Australia in coming years. We recently published Radical Brisbane and Radical Melbourne 2: The Enemy Within. Radical Sydney is set for publication in early 2009.

Our latest publication is Graham Perrett’s novel, The Twelfth Fish.

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Funny Colin should mention Andrew Landeryou, because I had exactly the same thought when I saw that DT graphic. Difference being that I do actually like Landeryou – he at least is being funny on purpose.

Today I wrote to Graham Perrett
A sleazy man who rhythms with ‘ferret’
I told him “We don’t need no porn!”
And heaped on him my utmost scorn

The Tele warns us off this book
(And helps us all to take a look)
And so it was I saw some words
A million times more rude than ‘turds’

His graphic tales of modern congress
Are grounds for hanging, yet I digress
Such filthy text – it makes me squirm
And what on earth’s a ‘surly worm’?

I note he writes of m_____bation
Of groins and loins and much gyration
He tells rude tales of s_x and gays
All bad for us in many ways

Say, should an adult buy his book
Well then a naughty mite might look
Upon those pages, rude and lewd…
Immediately their lives are screwed!

So let’s make sure we never let
A moment pass when we forget
The fearsome dangers to our youth
If Members’ novels are uncouth

Why, they should write of decent fish
That swim around or grace our dish!
I warn all anglers – shun THIS tome
And never leave it in your home!

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POST SCRIPT also at http://gobwash.com/poems/adults/gordon_perrett.html

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/14/2419639.htm

Is there any connection?

Daily Telegraph editor quits
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/14/2419639.htm

Is there a connection?

It is good sarcasm though, the best sarcasm is almost indistinguishable from the real thing.

I’ve added “surly worm” to my list of euphemisms (3000 and counting).