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Poetry: Unknown Child

POETRY LETTERS & HUMOURMay 28, 2020

UNKNOWN CHILD You brush by me softly In my moment of solitude A glancing touch of angels air That disturbs my reverie And causes me to look around Lose focus as I try to grasp your presence A sense that something’s there I’m not startled … just disturbed From my thoughts of meaningless themes That run continuously through my mind Joining my everyday moments From reality to reality Filling the gaps between thinking and being Between my inner and outer soul Your caress is like a butterfly kiss Softer than air across my face A signal of a presence with…

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A LIFE SPENT IN HELL

MUSIC CINEMA & BOOKSMay 28, 2020

THIS IS HOW I WILL STRANGLE YOU by Gideon Haigh Wilkinson Publishing, Melbourne Paperback: 108 pages Price: AUD$24.99 Reviewed by Gabrielle Walsh Author Gideon Haigh made his name as a cricket commentator and describes himself as an independent journalist. He is the author of over 30 books. This book, however, deals with an unlikely topic for a journalist with Haigh’s background. But his ability as a writer makes for a fitting vehicle to narrate the tragic life story of Natasa Christidou. Natasa was born in 1969, and was a victim of prolonged and violent incest from her father, Peter. A…

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A DIPLOMATIC EYE ON ASIA

MUSIC CINEMA & BOOKSMay 28, 2020

NINE LIVES: Episodes in an Australian Foreign Service Career by Richard Gate Connor Court, Redland BayPaperback: 200 pages Price: AUD$34.95 Reviewed by Chris Rule In Nine Lives: Episodes in an Australian Foreign Service Career, Richard Gate details his nine overseas postings as a member of the Australian diplomatic service from 1956 to 1993. Gate’s first overseas experience was as a 12-year-old child when his father was posted to New York by his employer, the Department of Trade and Customs, between 1945 and 1950. Gate was there as the postwar world was unfolding. Thus, when he returned to Australia, he had…

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A journey through Death’s dark kingdom: The Masque of the Red Death

MUSIC CINEMA & BOOKSMay 28, 2020

by Symeon J. Thompson The desire to escape death, or to master it, is understandable. In Boccaccio’s Decameron, the nobility seal themselves away to avoid the plague, telling stories to amuse themselves. For Edgar Allan Poe this self-isolation takes on a darker hue. In The Masque of the Red Death, the ruler, the “sagacious” Prince Prospero takes a thousand of his nobles and, welding the doors of his castle shut, leaves the external world to take care of itself as it is ravaged by the hideous Red Death. In the hands of master moviemaker Roger Corman and through the presence…

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