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Keywords: Purgatory

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Godiva exposed

    • Liam Guilar
    • 25 November 2008

    I mounted up and rode ...  into a dream of silent shuttered houses ... I waited for an outraged God to strike me down ... for flaunting breasts and pubic hair

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Polling whether politicians should go to heaven

    • Clive Hamilton
    • 08 August 2007
    14 Comments

    The results of the Australia's Institute's recent polling on the question reflect more than simple political judgments. While the Prime Minister seems to work hard at signalling his Christian beliefs, his moral standing appears tarnished by a widespread view that he is 'mean and tricky'. 

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Fluttering locusts stripping the paddocks bare

    • Brendan Ryan
    • 27 February 2007
    1 Comment

    Their flickering rises to a crescendo / unsettling, like a threat the ground / moves beneath me.

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