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We are seeing only the early technology of the e-book. In five years the e-book will look, feel, sound, smell and gesticulate in very different ways from its iPad and Kindle prototypes. As usual, libraries are quietly ahead of everyone else.
Melbourne had the strange experience of reading and listening to bushfire reports for five days while neither seeing nor smelling smoke. When the mind has no sensory leads to interpret, words become critical.
Although not a beat poem, a Peter Steele poem shares Ginsberg's aesthetic of the poem as measure of breath. Breath is commanding like an original lecture, enspiriting like a true sermon, propulsive like a perfect dinner conversation.
John Deane grew up in Catholic Ireland, which has now seen the Church questioned and rejected. But unlike those who have walked away, Deane goes to poetry to help pick up the pieces of a broken religion.
The poetry of Peter Steele is well-tempered, even when the subject is not. His themes are often modesty, doubt and brokenness, but his uses his grand style to produce measured tones and educated observations.
In a cage in Guantanamo bay / David Hicks sees his life slip away... The top ten entries in Eureka Street's limerick competition.
Reviews of Bamboo Palace; The Suicidal Church; The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty and Flesh and Glory: Symbol, gender and theology in the Gospel of John.
Peter Yule’s Carlton: A History reviewed by Philip Harvey.
Philip Harvey reviews Fresh Words and Deeds: The McCaughey Papers, edited by Peter Matheson and Christiaan Mostert.
Philip Harvey reviews Tom Frame’s The Life and Death of Harold Holt.
Philip Harvey reviews Ann McCulloch’s Dance of the Nomad: A Study of the Selected Notebooks of A. D. Hope.
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