Search Results: philip harvey
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Harvey
- 08 December 2010
'When you are growing up, there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully — the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you,' writes Richards. Librarians know better than anyone that the library attracts the most unlikely clientele.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Harvey
- 16 April 2010
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In one poem Les Murray would reduce the causes of the
Black Saturday fires to differences in forest management between 'hippies' and 'rednecks'. Utilising
poetry to play the blame game demeans our understanding of the complexity of that disaster.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Harvey
- 19 March 2010
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The poet Rainer Maria Rilke's 'God', writes Stephanie Dowrick, 'is a vulnerable neighbour one moment, like a clump
of a hundred roots the next; an ancient work of art, then a
much-needed hand, a cathedral, a dreamer. Absent here, breath-close
there; as often in darkness as in light.'
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ENVIRONMENT
- Philip Harvey
- 01 March 2010
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We are seeing only the early technology of the e-book. In five years the e-book will look, feel, sound, smell and gesticulate in very different ways from its iPad and Kindle prototypes. As usual, libraries are quietly ahead of everyone else.
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MEDIA
- Philip Harvey
- 24 February 2009
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Melbourne had the strange experience of reading and
listening to bushfire reports for five days while neither seeing nor
smelling smoke.
When the mind has no sensory leads to interpret, words become critical.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Harvey
- 21 November 2008
Although not a beat poem, a Peter Steele poem shares Ginsberg's aesthetic of the poem as measure of breath. Breath is commanding like an original lecture, enspiriting like a true sermon, propulsive like a perfect dinner conversation.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Harvey
- 02 April 2007
John Deane grew up in Catholic Ireland, which has now seen the Church questioned and rejected. But unlike those who have walked away, Deane goes to poetry to help pick up the pieces of a broken religion.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Harvey
- 08 March 2007
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The poetry of Peter Steele is well-tempered, even when the subject is not. His themes are often modesty, doubt and brokenness, but his uses his grand style to produce measured tones and educated observations.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Judges Philip Harvey, James Massola and Andrew Hamilton
- 23 December 2006
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In a cage in Guantanamo bay / David Hicks sees his life slip away... The top ten entries in Eureka Street's limerick competition.
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AUSTRALIA
- Eureka Street editors
- 07 July 2006
Philip Berrigan, accountability, comic opera, and senior graffiti
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Kate Llewellyn
- 26 June 2006
His conversation with the night / is not the same as mine, / Our personalities are the sheets / on which we sleep
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Harvey
- 12 June 2006
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