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Keywords: Political Poetry

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Found in translation

    • Kevin Hart
    • 08 July 2006

    Kevin Hart on the poetry and essays of Czeslaw Milosz.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The human as such

    • Peter Steele
    • 08 July 2006

    Peter Steele reviews Terry Eagleton’s Sweet Violence: the Idea of the Tragic.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Waiting

    • Morag Fraser
    • 05 July 2006

    At a time like this, when the world—literally the whole world—waits on words, it is bracing to hear hope extolled, and exhilarating to think hard about the foundations of peace and how we might lay them down.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Tonga at the crossroads (again)

    • Hugh Laracy
    • 13 June 2006

    Once a model nation state—Hugh Laracy considers Tonga’s future.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The legacy of Ern Malley

    • Guy Rundle
    • 31 May 2006

    Guy Rundle reflects on the lives of James McAuley and Harold Stewart.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Sounding the syllables

    • Brooke Davis
    • 14 May 2006

    A new Australian film examines the powerful role of poetry in times of oppression.    

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Return of the native

    • Gary Pearce
    • 10 May 2006

    Gary Pearce follows Mourid Barghouti’s journey to Palestine in I Saw Ramallah.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Natural talent

    • Michele Gierck
    • 30 April 2006

    Michele Gierck meets Ulli and Georgina Beier.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Torn between art and activism

    • Tim Bonyhady
    • 27 April 2006

    Judith Wright was not just a much greater writer than most of the artist-activists who had preceded her, but also a much greater activist.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Brilliant buddies

    • Ralph Elliott
    • 27 April 2006

    Ralph Elliott reviews Gustav Born’s new edition of Max Born’s The Born-Einstein Letters 1916 –1955: Friendship, Politics and Physics in Uncertain Times.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book business

    • Sara Dowse
    • 25 April 2006

    Reading the Sydney Writers’ Festival

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    True north

    • John Carmody
    • 25 April 2006

    Jack Carmody reflects on the life of Fr Ted Kennedy, pastor to Sydney’s urban indigenous community.

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