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Paul Dawson

Paul Dawson’s first book of poems, Imagining Winter (Interactive Press, 2006), won the national IP Picks Best Poetry Award in 2006. He is also the author of Creative Writing and the New Humanities (Routledge, 2005). Paul is a senior lecturer in the School of the Arts & Media at the University of New South Wales where he teaches Creative Writing and Literary Studies.

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Published in Overland Issue 206 Autumn 2012 ·

Australian academic

Paul Dawson

The academic formerly known as Cedric Pinkwattle sat with one leg crossed over the other, a position of repose typically favoured by women, libertines and intellectuals that he found pleasantly conducive to thought – in spite of the pressure his scissored thighs placed upon his testicles, creating a sensation that, if he paused to think about it, he would have to define as painful ...