section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Mitchell
- 16 October 2006
This is consciously a poem and so must try / to outstare itself. It knows itself by its / line breaks.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Mitchell
- 16 October 2006
I came to bring you church / and church in abundance. / Come to me all who are / heavy laden and I will give you church.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 16 October 2006
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Among recent documentaries commemorating the fifth anniversary of September 11, one stood out as particularly harrowing. 9/11—The Falling Man makes a fascinating counterpoint to World Trade Center, the first mainstream feature film to turn its eye to that fateful day.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Graham Rowlands
- 18 September 2006
With my highs & lows / my highs of hot air rising & lifting the alls of my alls or nothings
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ouyang Yu
- 18 September 2006
Finding it hard to write something I like / I tend to revise it a thousand times before I gain peace of mind
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 18 September 2006
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It was hard to notice the recent death of Colin Thiele, arguably Australia's greatest children's writer. In a philistine nation under philistine leadership, Thiele’s quiet cultured tone and its sad silencing could not compete for proper, courteous and deserved recognition with the phony vernacular outpouring that is supposed to be our true voice.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael Sariban
- 18 September 2006
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you are crying on your mother's lap / you are holding your father's hand, / and the rise & fall of their voices / binds you to them like blood
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tony Smith
- 18 September 2006
The reactions of many Australians to the deaths of a crocodile showman and a racing car driver suggest that media images canonise our secular saints. Meanwhile the fictional Chris Anderson's love for his family and friends, and his integrity and humility, are very appealing characteristics.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 18 September 2006
Despite the bleak prognosis, An Inconvenient Truth is an optimistic film. Al Gore is no doomsday prophet, but an engaging orator who believes humans can change to meet the threat posed by global warming.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Debbie Lustig
- 04 September 2006
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Everything you do has long been done before / But you and this obsession are joined at the hip / You do it anyway and you still want more
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Kevin Gillam
- 04 September 2006
loitering in 'wanna' land, / like the spider with / too much caffeine, / web crazed, one leg for walking, / seven for addiction
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 04 September 2006
At Midnight Mass and blissed-out on the music playing on his Walkman, the newly atheist Zac daydreams that he’s floating up to the rafters, taking flight as the congregation below 'ooh-oohs' to the refrain of the Stones’ 'Sympathy For the Devil'. More than escapism, the scene reflects Zac’s unconscious desire to transcend the natural order of his world.
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