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Martin, Colin

Colin Martin is an Australian freelance writer with a particular interest in artists and writers whose work engages with science. He was briefly enrolled as an Agricultural Science student at the University of Melbourne, before transferring to the Science faculty.

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20050601141030 Ephemerella inermis - Colin Martin on Gaylord Schanilec, Mayflies of the Driftless Region - Slightly Foxed Issue 6

Casting a Spell

Colin Martin on Gaylord Schanilec, Mayflies of the Drifted Region

Given that we’re talking in years, it is ironic that the book that stimulated this article deals with the most ephemeral entomological order, poetically described by Louis MacNeice as ‘One only day of May alive beneath the sun’. The American artist Gaylord Schanilec is illustrating and writing Mayflies of the Driftless Region, which he plans to publish in the autumn of 2005 under his Midnight Paper Sales imprint.
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Love versus Science

Colin Martin on Carrie Tiffany, Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living

Given this personal history, Carrie Tiffany’s quirkily titled first novel, Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living, struck an immediate chord when the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction shortlist was announced. Its intriguing plot turns on a state government-funded ‘Better Farming’ train, which rattles around rural Victoria in the 1930s, loaded with agricultural and domestic scientists preaching the gospel of science to farmers and their families. This was a book that demanded to be bought and read with the insistency of loud bells and flashing lights at level crossings. I was not disappointed.

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