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Think of Ebenezer Scrooge's reform and redemption as Kierkegaard draped with holly and mass-market sentimentalityDecember 25, 2025
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The hand that wrote the plays credited to Shakespeare can never be entirely known. Here is the case for a lesser known candidate, Sir Henry NevilleNovember 6, 2025
28 mins
After Leo McKern's death in 2002, John Mortimer wrote stories which would never be broadcast. He knew by then there was no point. McKern was simply irreplaceableSeptember 24, 2025
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What impresses most about Frederick Crews' parodies is that his essays go well beyond faculty lounge sniping at those with whom he disagreesSeptember 23, 2025
21 mins
As a writer with much on his mind, he frequently excerpted his own earlier works, always with the good sense to recognise his best linesAugust 6, 2025
28 mins
My 18 months running theARB left me with a taste of what life in literary circles is like for so many. It’s not a taste that goes away easilyAugust 4, 2025
44 mins
If there is a contest or a poll, peek behind the Wizard of Oz curtain and you will find not a celebration of art and skill but self-interested sponsors and adjudicatorsJuly 24, 2025
12 mins
With few exceptions, the postcolonial novel has been written in English for Western consumptionJuly 3, 2025
10 mins
I had long suspected the Johnson quotation about patriotism being 'the last refuge of a scoundrel', if genuine, had been taken out of context.' So I checked and, yes, that was not his meaning at allMay 30, 2025
6 mins
RegardingKangaroo’s literary significance, I am not qualified to speak. What I can address is the profound interest it holds as a vision of Australia and AustraliansMay 22, 2025
12 mins
Premiumost real crime is sordid, intellectually uninteresting, and committed by […]May 12, 2025
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As Henry Kendall put it, he 'sang the first great songs these lands can claim / To be their own', yet his reputation has withered with the yearsApril 17, 2025
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As revisionists re-cast the Anzac story, the author's account of his experiences at Gallipoli and beyond has slipped from viewMarch 25, 2025
23 mins
In the hands of a Tim Winton, our fiction is in good shape. At its second-best, it’s encouraging. At its fifth-best, it doesn’t even achieve mediocrityJanuary 16, 2025
38 mins
What is a film-studies subject doing in an English course, in high school, in Year 10?September 28, 2024
15 mins
PremiumToday, a muse is defined as a person or other influence in an artist’s life that gives rise to inspiration. The symbolic has been replaced with the scientific. In other words, a muse visits just as two neuron synapses clap together like flint on steel causing sparksJuly 14, 2024
10 mins
PremiumIn October 1976 I made my way to Golders Green in north London to call on Sir Charles Tennyson, grandson of the famous poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria’s reign.May 28, 2024
8 mins
PremiumOnce it was an esteemed element of myths and in moral education, but today in schools pupils are taught the eleventh commandment, “Thou shalt not bully”, while emphasis falls on the benign effects of inclusiveness and equality.May 28, 2024
17 mins
PremiumIn his own lifetime, Shakespeare had been considered just one of a bevy of capable and successful wordsmiths. How was it then that, in the eighteenth century, the flow of tourist traffic to Stratford reached such annoying volumes that a fed-up local vicar felled 'the Shakespeare tree' in a bid to get some peace and quiet?May 18, 2024
15 mins
PremiumThe early seventeenth century was English poetry's golden age for the poetry of meditation, a more specialised and concentrated process than contemplation. Meditation seeks unity with the Godhead, and it is this particular genre which has given us some of the greatest poems in the language.May 2, 2024
14 mins
PremiumBrian Kiernan, who died on March 1, was a major […]April 29, 2024
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- PremiumThe name Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa is not well known […]
April 29, 2024
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- PremiumThe ancient Greeks believed in nine goddesses of inspiration known […]
April 29, 2024
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PremiumUpon the death of her father in 1904, a despairing Virginia threw herself from a window too low to do any real harm. Recovering, she insisted Edward VII was lurking and cursing in the shrubbery while birds spoke to her in Greek. Just 22 at the time, madness and maladies would be frequent companions until her suicide in1942April 29, 2024
14 mins
PremiumThe Philistines remain with us as a permanent fixture of our culture and have always been a conspicuous element in society. For this reason, and bearing in mind the extraordinary and lamentable meltdown of our education systems, it is against considerable odds that poetry-writing continues to flourish in Australia.April 7, 2024
17 mins
- PremiumTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took […]
March 28, 2024
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Premium"It was a matter of interest to me that many Australian academics seemed to think the only creative works of any consequence in South-East Asia were novels set in villages or kampongs, presented mostly in a simplistic way by decent but essentially parochial storytellers about deprivations referable to callous European rule"March 26, 2024
28 mins
- PremiumReading Edgar Allan Poe when I was about twelve, I […]
February 28, 2024
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PremiumI wrote Peter Steele’s obituary for theSydney Morning Herald in 2012, and reprinted it inPortraits: Popes, Family, and Friends. The obituary ended with a brief reference to his friendship with Heaney. At the time I had no idea of its rich significance for those two warm, witty and learned poetsFebruary 15, 2024
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Premium"I sit in my room in the headquarters of the noise of the whole apartment ... My father bursts through the door to my room and passes through, his robe trailing ... the ashes are being scraped out of the stove in the next room … there is shouting one word after the other through the foyer. Father is gone; now the subtler, more diffuse, more hopeless noise begins, led by the voices of two canaries"February 9, 2024
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PremiumHow do you stage Shakespeare in the Age of Woke? Well, If you're Bell Shakespeare doingThe Comedy of Errors, you emphasise gender and colour-blind casting and forfeit the play's easy laughs in favour of soft-focused confusion. We won’t find Shakespeare’s relevance by softening his edges, as did the Bell production, by implementing a sex-change and making Luciana a camp maleFebruary 8, 2024
21 mins
PremiumIn compiling an anthology of Gippsland poetry, I came across a number of impressive poems by a William Sharp. All I knew about him at the time was that he was a late-nineteenth-century London literary figure who had visited Victoria. As it turned out, there was much more to learn of this leading figure in the Celtic Twilight movementFebruary 2, 2024
13 mins
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