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Saturday, March 11, 2017

In memory of Trevor Grant: a real Australian journalist

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"But all I feel is sadness; sadness not just that I'm going to die prematurely, but sadness that I live in a society that, so ofte...
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Monday, February 6, 2017

Activists continue to fight bulldozers and corrupted government processes in Perth's southern suburbs

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"Protest that endures.. is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success; namely the hope of preserving qualities in one...
Friday, February 3, 2017

Friday's poem: Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden

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Those Winter Sundays Robert Hayden Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hand...
Monday, January 30, 2017

Stanley Kunitz: The Layers

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"A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of. It takes on a life and a will of its own" Stanley Kunitz The Layers by Sta...
Sunday, January 29, 2017

Auschwitz and the photographic record of Wilhelm Brasse

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January 27th was the 72nd anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi extermination and concentration camp  Auschwitz-Birkenau  by Soviet Re...
Friday, January 20, 2017

Saturday's Poem: Henry Lawson- Scots of the Riverina

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Oh my ways are strange ways and new ways and old  ways. And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low. I'm at home and at ...
Monday, June 13, 2016

Anna Swir: A Polish poetry giant

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"You will not tame this sea either by humility or rapture. But you can laugh in its face." Anna Swir I Carried Bedpans b...
Sunday, June 12, 2016

Sunday's poem: Stanley Kunitiz and 'Living in the layers'

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"That pack of scoundrels stumbling through the gate emerges as the order of the state" Stanley Kunitz "Evil has...
Saturday, June 11, 2016

The political genesis of the work of Arvo Pärt

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“One line is like freedom, and the triad line is like discipline. It must work together" Arvo Pärt "I apologize but I cannot h...