The Close Readers New Spirit (Independent) The Close Readers is the band/project-name for the songs of Damien Wilkins. He returned to music in 2009 after some time away from the hobby. Of course, in that time off he developed as a writer across a handful of novels, some short stories, poems and teaching creative writing. [...]
Damien Wilkins is the author of six novels, two collections of stories and a book of poems. He was also a writer on the TV series Insiders Guide to Happiness and Duggan. He is the incoming Director of the Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University, where he teaches Creative Writing. His music project The [...]
