Michael Giacometti

Alice Springs, Northern Territory

Fiction

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4 Books

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Michael Giacometti has been a computer programmer, a trekking guide, an arts worker, a bus driver. In 2008 he pulled a cart weighing twice his own body weight across the Simpson Desert, becoming the first (and only) person to complete an east–west crossing, solo and unassisted.
His writing has appeared in Meanjin, Island, Cordite, Wild, and anthologies including 'Cracking the Spine: Ten short Australian stories and how they were written' (Spineless Wonders, 2014). He won the NT Literary Award for Poetry 2012 and 2017, and in 2016 he was the Regional Emerging Writer-in-Residence at the Newcastle Writers Festival. 'My Life & Other Fictions' is his debut publication.
Formerly of Alice Springs, he now lives in Launceston with his partner and camp dog.

Michael's Latest Update

over 4 years ago

Paintings are a great source of poetic inspiration. And here is an award-winning poem based on an interesting painting by the unique central Australian artist Rod Moss.

In the soft light of dawn

Michael Giacometti Poetry

'In the soft light of dawn' is a poem inspired by the painting 'Anthropology: being themselves' by central Australian artist Rod Moss. Radically employing a combination of free verse, Strehlow-style couplets (as used in his epic 'Songs of Central ...

Writing Michael has Shared on Tablo

Some Portraits of Country

Michael Giacometti

Gracefully simple and eloquent, 'Portraits of Country' is a meditation on place. It is a visual and melodic exploration of landscapes - lost, emerging, and uncertain. These are some of the portraits selected from 'Portraits of Country' (LongShor...

In the soft light of dawn

Michael Giacometti Poetry

'In the soft light of dawn' is a poem inspired by the painting 'Anthropology: being themselves' by central Australian artist Rod Moss. Radically employing a combination of free verse, Strehlow-style couplets (as used in his epic 'Songs of Central ...

my abbr.d life- the story of the story

Michael Giacometti Literary Fiction

This essay tells the fraught history of the microfiction, my abbr.d life. The following essay was originally published by Spineless Wonders in Cracking The Spine: ten short Australian stories and how they were written.

my abbr.d life

Michael Giacometti Fiction

‘Bringing together 20 very different stories, My Life and Other Fictions is a bold debut from Michael Giacometti and a unique exercise in experimentation with form and voice.’ ELIZABETH FLUX, Books+ Publishing An Aboriginal girl craves her abuse...

Michael's Reading & Writing Communities

Spineless Wonders