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Stu Hatton is a writer and editor. He was born in Boston, England, and now lives and works on Dja Dja Wurrung country in Victoria, Australia. His work has featured in The Age, Best Australian Poems, Cordite Poetry Review, Overland and Southerly. He is currently working on a series of essays that seek to contextualise and interpret songs; the first of these is on ‘Enola Gay’ by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. ...more

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	The Best Australian Poems 2012 by John Tranter (Editor), A.D. Phatak (Contributor), Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen (Contributor) 3.83 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tincture Journal, Issue Six, Winter 2014 by Daniel Young (Editor), Stuart Barnes (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Meg Henry (Contributor) 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to be Hungry 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[Untitled] by Les Zigomanis (Editor), Ryan O'Neill (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), George Ivanoff (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tincture Journal: Issue Sixteen (Summer 2016) by Daniel Young (Editor), Stuart Barnes (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kirby Fenwick (Editor) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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A deep dive into OMD's 'Enola Gay'

I’m writing a series of articles where I contextualise and interpret some of the ‘songs that made us’. The first installment is a deep dive into Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's synthpop classic, ‘Enola Gay’. Of course, the song takes its name from the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

Content warning: contains some graphic detail regarding the Hiroshima bombing and its aftermath. Read more of this blog post »

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Published on September 11, 2020 15:38 • Tags: hiroshima, music, omd, songs-that-made-us, synthpop

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On Being Normal and Other Disorders: A Manual for Clinical Psychodiagnostics

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The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science

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