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Keywords: Homilies

ARTS AND CULTURE

Andrew Hamilton and Peter Steele: boys with writing in their blood
- Andrew Hamilton
- 03 December 2010
As I reflect back now, I can see the difference between Peter's urge to write and my own. My hero was the master of terseness, Tacitus. But Peter wanted to find words, and ways of putting words together, that could unfold the shape of what lay beyond words.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The wild mind of Peter Steele
- Morag Fraser
- 28 May 2010
8 Comments
When I met Peter Steele I noticed a spark, a shimmer of wit that almost subverted his serious courtesy. There was a wild mind at work and play, and I would have to run prodigiously fast even to catch at its stirrups. So it has proved: it's been a long, vigorous, and exultantly grateful following.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Demerit points for bad poetry
- Brian Doyle
- 06 May 2009
4 Comments
It is a useful truth that every real feat is built on a mountain of failures. The price for poetry's occasional power is the ocean of self-indulgent, mewling muck produced and published annually under the tattered banner of the Poem.
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INFORMATION

No justice for St Mary's
- Justin Coleman
- 20 February 2009
18 Comments
The Archbishop has relied upon the evidence of those whom you rightly alluded to as 'spies'. The parish reply was not 'We will defy you' but 'Your information is flawed. Please come and see for yourself.' Do club members have to accept every idea of every coach who is thrust upon them?
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ENVIRONMENT

A nuclear reactor in my back yard
- Colin Brown
- 13 June 2007
2 Comments
In 1996, Lucas Heights was renamed Barden Ridge, in order to preserve property values. Few people enjoy living near a nuclear reactor. Many also doubt that building more nuclear reactors will provide an answer to our run away greenhouse gas emissions.
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RELIGION

The comforting word
- Gillian Bouras
- 29 April 2006
In extremis, we seek what we know, or something very close to it.
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