Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney until 3 February
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William Kentridge – that which we do not remember
Coalface
February 2017: It’s Question Time in Australia’s Parliament. It’s been a difficult week for the Government: dire polls, grim economics, scandals and policy flip-flops. They need a circuit-breaker. The Treasurer steps up to address the House, in his hand is a lump of coal. Continue reading
Friday favourites…
The stranded angler
Lake Illawarra, 7 September 2018
the long flat – gone to white
ring of hills process through blue, grey, black —
bright enough for one small life. Continue reading
The mountain
— looms in grandeur
— glaciers and dark passes
— avalanches (like a verb) Continue reading
Not the thing itself, only ideas
after Wallace Stevens
Snagged on the headland’s ironstone the storm drains the bay. The water’s surface is electric (with possibility), rain inscribes Pythagorean forms – trios, polygons, hedrons – onto the second-rate swell. Continue reading
Elizabeth Gould’s Spangled Drongo (Dicrurus bracteatus)
in the street of the sky…
in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems
e e cummings
like a drunk
looking for his keys
in a parking lot Continue reading
Spring’s like-ness
— the wisteria vine like a weight-lifter’s bicep Continue reading
The lovesong of the Australian Giant Cuttlefish (Sepia apama)
No home maker, nest gatherer, sand sitter
turbo-charged palindromic I eat as I hunt | hunt as I eat
now I am shell-grit, now kelp, now fiery sea-devil. Continue reading
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