Keywords: Political Poetry
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Harvey
- 23 February 2011
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Gallipolli was a disaster and a relatively minor conflict, but it is upon such 'minor' conflicts that Empires are built. These songs go to the heart of a contradictory dilemma: the love of country on the one hand and the ugly extremes of patriotism on the other.
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INTERNATIONAL
- John Falzon
- 22 December 2010
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Dylan Thomas wrote that 'A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe.' Our 'good poem' is the listening to, and learning from, the people on the margins. But it will only be a 'good poem' if these whispers are translated into collective action.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ouyang Yu and Barry Gittins
- 05 October 2010
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No good deed goes unplagiarised; no noteworthy scheme leaves the department unharvested. Lack the intellectual capital to spend on an informed decision? Set multiple minions to work then cherry pick the outcomes, signing off with your own trotter.
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INTERNATIONAL
- James Dorsey
- 13 July 2010
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One Moroccan organisation for lesbians,
transsexuals and homo- and bisexuals, estimates
that some 5000 people have been jailed in Morocco or forced to emigrate
because they are gay. Mithly, the Arab world's only gay magazine, hopes to steer the debate into calmer waters.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Falzon
- 15 January 2010
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A Japanese homeless man was sending the most exquisite poems to a popular newspaper. There is nothing extraordinary about a person experiencing homelessness producing great poetry. Yet the scenario was regarded with astonishment. October 2009
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AUSTRALIA
- John Falzon
- 12 October 2009
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A Japanese homeless man was sending the most exquisite poems to a popular newspaper. There is nothing extraordinary about a person experiencing homelessness producing great poetry. Yet the scenario was regarded with astonishment.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jonathan Shaw
- 03 July 2009
2 Comments
The great wave of Utegate has passed over us, leaving Malcolm Turnbull
on the sands, chastened but apparently unrepentant, and far from
exhausted. Reports
of his political death are manifestly exaggerated.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
It is a useful truth that every real feat is built on a mountain of failures. The price for
poetry's occasional power is the ocean of
self-indulgent, mewling muck produced and published annually under the tattered banner of the Poem.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jeff Klooger
- 16 December 2008
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The minister .. surveys his kingdom with an eagle's eye .. and an artichoke's heart .. those desperadoes in their plywood boats .. the public with their mortgages
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 29 September 2008
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Online publications know that the flame throwers among those who post comments invariably draw a crowd. Such an environment is potentially fertile ground for character assassination, rather than reasoned argument.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tom Clark
- 23 September 2008
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Peter Taylor, selected straight from .. Petersham firsts to bowl his offies .. for the baggy green, taught us how .. the 'Strayan dream can fizz and spit .. through Sydney's fond atmosphere.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Peter Rose on writing Rose Boys.
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