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Keywords: Modern Australian Poems

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    How poets encounter God

    • Charlotte Clutterbuck
    • 24 March 2009
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    Dawkins would say I am deluded .. in a world unhoused, split between .. those who think they know everything .. those who think they know there is nothing.

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    Auctioning Jane Austen's hair

    • P. S. Cottier
    • 16 September 2008

    Do they stroke it with avid fingers, this palm tree lock that once grew from the full head of quietest genius? .. Scalping would be too much, headhunting too tropical .. but buying the hair of a dead woman you can't know .. is quite the thing

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    The Consolations of Biography

    • Peter Rose
    • 08 July 2006

    Peter Rose on writing Rose Boys.

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    Book reviews

    • Miriam Bugden, Andrew Hamilton, Chris O’Connor, Tom Rigby
    • 26 June 2006

    Reviews of Western Horizon: Sydney’s heartland and the future of Australian politics; Body and Soul: A Spirituality of Imaginative Creativity; One Fourteenth of an Elephant: A memoir of life and death on the Burma–Thailand Railway; What’s Right? and Giving it Away: In praise of philanthropy.

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    Book reviews

    • Avril Hannah-Jones, Chloe Wilson, Terry Monagle
    • 24 June 2006

    Reviews of Sex, Power and the Clergy; Media Mania: why our fear of modern media is misplaced; Saving Francesca and Olhovsky Prince of Hamburg.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Soul food

    • Matthew Klugman
    • 11 June 2006

    Matthew Klugman interviews Richard Tognetti of the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The legacy of Ern Malley

    • Guy Rundle
    • 31 May 2006

    Guy Rundle reflects on the lives of James McAuley and Harold Stewart.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Poet with the gift of friendship

    • Keith Harrison
    • 14 May 2006

    Keith  Harrison  recalls  the  life  of  Philip Martin.

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    Brilliant buddies

    • Ralph Elliott
    • 27 April 2006

    Ralph Elliott reviews Gustav Born’s new edition of Max Born’s The Born-Einstein Letters 1916 –1955: Friendship, Politics and Physics in Uncertain Times.

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    Riding out the Romantic Storm

    • Philip Harvey
    • 20 April 2006

    Philip Harvey reviews Ann McCulloch’s Dance of  the Nomad:  A Study of the Selected Notebooks of A.  D. Hope.

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