Timelord Dreaming
tweetems from ward 8b
Published on 11. March 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
86 pages
978-1-925231-02-1 (ISBN)
Description
You wake in the middle of the night with a terrible pain radiating from your lower side up to your chest. An ambulance is called, and you're rationed ever increasing doses of morphine on your way to the hospital. In the EW, a heart attack is ruled out but the mystery intensifies. Until a CT scan reveals the truth...
"You", in this case, was the author, who, with the kindness of a Dr Who understudy and other medical staff at the Mater Hospital, Brisbane, survived a urgent operation and had many medicated days to reflect on an often surreal experience.
Timelord Dreaming uses "tweetems", microtexts with Internet call-outs, to recreate one man's journey through the parallel universes of patient and personal identity. If you've ever been hospitalised, you'll find much that is familiar - and not always comfortable - here.
Dr David P Reiter won the 2012 Western Australian Premier's Award for My Planets Reunion Memoir. Timelord Dreaming continues his innovative work in the frontier between text and digital media.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Australia
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
121 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-925231-02-1 (9781925231021)
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David P Reiter is an award-winning author of prose and poetry as well as film maker and creator of digital narratives. He's CEO at IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd), an innovative print and digital company in Brisbane, Australia. His fourth book, Hemingway in Spain and Selected Poems, was short-listed for the Adelaide Festival Awards. Other earlier books include The Cave After Saltwater Tide (Penguin, 1994) for which he won the Queensland Premier's Poetry Award and his book of short fiction, Triangles, was shortlisted for the 2000 Steele Rudd Award. Other significant works are The Gallery, interactive multimedia completed while he was in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada; and Kiss and Tell, Selected and New Poems 1987-2002. IP released his novel Liars and Lovers in 2003, and his four-book Project Earth-mend junior novel series, including The Greenhouse Effect (Hachette), Global Cooling, Tiger Tames the Min Min and Tiger Takes the Big Apple (IP Kidz). His radio play about the relationship between the painters Gauguin and van Gogh, Paul & Vincent, was produced by ABC Radio National, and by 4MBS Classical FM. Primary Instinct is a satire on primary school education.
David has been writer-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada (twice), Bundanon (the Arthur Boyd property near Nowra, New South Wales), the Michael King Centre (NZ), and at the KSP Writers Centre in Perth as Established Writer-in-Residence. He has been recipient of several grants from the Australia Council for the Arts, the Cultural Fund of the Copyright Agency, and Arts Queensland.
The interactive website My Planets Reunion Memoir won the Western Australian Premier's Award for Digital Narrative in 2012, and a short film, Nullarbor Song Cycle, was short-listed for the same award in 2011. His picture book, Bringing Down the Wall was the Canadian Children's Book Centre selection for Best Book for Teens and Kids in 2013. His most recent works are Timelord Dreaming (2015) Black Books Publishing (2018), a satire on the publishing industry, and Time Lords Remixed: a Dr Who Poetical (2020).
David has taught at several universities in Canada and Australia and led many workshops on creative writing and publishing. Regarded as a publishing futurist, he is much in demand as a keynote speaker and presenter at festivals and conferences in Australia and abroad.