How to be Nowhere
Essays and texts 1971–1994
IAN WEDDE
$49.95

The essays, articles and lectures in this book represent about 25
years’ writing by Ian Wedde. They are the invisible foundation
of a writing career whose visible features have been poetry,
fiction and the public requirements of editing and art-curator-
ship. A reputation is gained from the visible work. The less
visible work pays the bills. There is also, finally, a lot more of the
invisible or ephemeral than of the literary. This selection leaves a
lot out. What it leaves in are a few repeated enquiries: mostly,
how do we look at ourselves looking (read ourselves thinking)
without falling into the anachronising tar-pits of Nation and
Identity. How to view the history of these representations. How
to satisfy a loyal appetite for the thinking of them. For Wedde,
criticism is like travel writing: how to report one’s position; how
to say, Wish you were here.

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