Today I welcome Berndt Sellheim, poet, novelist and academic. He has taught creative writing and poetics at UTS, and lectured philosophy at Macquarie University where he completed a doctorate in phenomenology. Berndt is the author of Beyond The Frame’s Edge, his poetry collection Awake at the Wheel won the Federation of Australia Writers’ Anne Elder Poetry Award. Today we talk about his second novel The Fatal Dance. He is beaming in all the way from Canada.

411. Berndt Sellheim: The Fatal Dance

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411. Berndt Sellheim: The Fatal Dance

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