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Subhash Jaireth
In his new collection of essays Subhash Jaireth traverses the globe in an exploration of the personal and collective memory held within natural and built landscapes.
His roving curiosity takes…
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It starts to rain as I step out of my hotel ….‘ So begins Subhash Jaireth’s striking collection of essays on the writers, and their writing, that have enriched his…
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Drawing on years of research, translation and travel Spinoza’s Overcoat - and its illuminations of loss, mortality and the reverie of writing - will linger with readers.
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‘Those who have eyes, ’ writes Georges Braque, my favourite cubist painter, ‘know just how irrelevant words are to what they see.’ Does this mean that I don’t have the…
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Bruce Dawe has received wide recognition as Australias most popular poet, his books often being set for study at secondary and tertiary levels. Slo-Mo Tsunami offers a typically wide range…
Between 1969 and 1980 Edvard Radzinskii wrote three historico-political plays which were later published as a trilogy entitled Theatre of the Times…. The book attempts to unravel the nature of…
‘When I listen to Bach, I seem to turn into a fish’. - Bach (Pau) in Love. ‘We forget because we want to live. We forget because we live in…
Vasu, a young Indian student of architecture, arrives in Moscow in the late 1960s. He falls in love with Anna, an archaeologist and an accomplished cellist, yet his romanticism about…
Aflame begins in Soviet Moscow and ends with a Tibetan Buddhist monk’s self-immolation; residing between them - improvisations after celebrated Japanese Haikus. Written in an intricate and polyphonic structure, Subhash…
Meerabai (1498-1556) was a poet, singer and dancer and a devotee of Hindu god Krishna. She is revered as one of the prominent voices of the Bhakti Movement: a movement…
