Monthly Archives: September 2017
‘Nuff said
Peter Dombrovskis: Journeys Into The Wild
Peter Dombrovskis was one of the world’s foremost wilderness photographers. His powerful, reflective and deeply personal images of the unique Tasmanian wilderness had a lasting impact, changing the way Australians think about their environment.
The senses: touch
Pascal Mercier: Lea’s Story
Two lonely men meet by chance in a café in Provence. Both brilliant high achievers, now cut off from their professions, they are soon drawn together, one in the role of supportive listener, the other with a compulsive need to tell his tale.
Snore no more
So you want to write a book?
Oh my Lord, it’s Eloise again
If you happen to be in New York, Eloise at the Museum is at the New York Historical Society until October 9th.
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Anthony O’Neill: Dr Jekyll and Mr Seek
“He had breached – no, demolished – the fortress of identity.” (198)
Anthony O’Neill, you’ve done it again. This deserves to become a classic, right up there with the original.
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Exile
I heard the voice of the crane
calling loudly, calling men to the plough.
And it struck my heart black
that others hold my fair-flowering fields.
Theognis, c 550 BC, in exile
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