Beejay Silcox
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505 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
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Beejay Silcox’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm like, exactly.
That's wonderful.
The way things are allowed to happen to them and you're not emotionally involved.
very hard.
Is there a pleasure in stretching out in their sort of like vicarious awfulness?
It has been an amazing year in Tasmanian fiction.
Really, really amazing year.
And I'm thinking like Johanna Bell's got an amazing novel, Keely Job, Brendan Collie, and the latest is Adam Ouston's book, Mine.
Which I had the pleasure and privilege of launching down in Hobart a couple of weeks ago, which is a 300-page single-sentence novel.
And I know that this is the second time in two appearances that I've bought you a single-sentence novel, but this is an incredible extractive parable about a 70-year-old poet who falls down a mineshaft, and at the bottom of that mineshaft thinks about.
Yeah.
All of the forces of human history that have brought him to the bottom of that place.
He's writing a hauntology of Tasmania, and from that sort of deep, dark catabatsus down the bottom, he starts to think about extraction and acquisitiveness.
Because of course the word mine is a place, but it's also the things that toddlers and robber barons grasp for: mine, mine.
And so it's this incredible story about what it means to want to take things.
And I was just entirely captivated with it.
It's a book that if you have the time and patience to sit down and read in a single sitting is incredible, but if you laid it out.
Page above page, what you would get is the kind of literary equivalent, actually, of a mine shaft.
It's fully justified in one single sentence.
So it wheels and it darts and it's funny and it's clever and it brings together stories of Douglas Mawson and uh the sort of sunken cities, that's like the sunken mining villages of Tasmania and what it means to make art and what it
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