Archive
Stamping Ground: Stories Of The Northern Suburbs Of Melbourne edited by Gordon Thompson
An Anthology Of Modern Irish Poetry edited by Wes Davis
Mark Twain: The adventures of Samuel L. Clemens by Jerome Loving
Trouble: Evolution of A Radical / Selected Writings 1970–2010 by Kate Jennings
Griffith Review 28: Still the Lucky Country? edited by Julianne Schultz
Son-biography: which are deft or lived things
which have jumped from him without genes.
Passions, eccentricities, duty? I don’t believe
Lamarck, but I left his Quiet for her Talk,
nagging the life out of things, worsened it
word-wise, garrulous, and then heavied it
because Saloms drink, his side, but genes,
though he didn’t, and she offered her whole
life to the sobriety of wives. He voted sober
but gave me his black-sheep toss-the-world
bushiness, which I took as city, and poetry.
He said I was a fraud, which meant I didn’t
Poetry in English has lost one of its paragons, Australian literature one of its finest ambassadors, and Australian Book Review a beloved friend with the death in London of Peter Porter, aged eighty-one. He died on 23 April – Shakespeare’s birthday – by which time our May issue had already gone to print.
... (read more)In Australia, fewer than one in three expected deaths takes place outside an institution, but eighty per cent of people say they would rather die at home.
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