27 February 2019

Cultural Event

poets picnic 2019 – 30 years young

Attracting  politicians, poets and high school students, the Poets Picnic was held at the beautiful Blackburn Gardens adjacent to the Woollahra Council chambers and the former Woollahra Library.  Both the crowd and the poets were in a celebratory mood as …

Literature

night train: new & selected stories by thom jones

George Bernard Shaw, using Colonel Pickering as his mouthpiece in the play, Pygmalion, says: “There’s always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well.”
Guess that qualifies Thom Jones posthumous collection of stories, NIGHT TRAIN, professional.

These new and selected …

Cinema

king of thieves: hip replacement required

In his latest beaut book, BLOWING THE BLOODY DOORS OFF (Hodder & Stoughton), Michael Caine says “In my latest movie, KING OF THIEVES, I appear along with many old friends: Ray Winstone, Michael Gambon, Jim Broadbent. But maybe the one …

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