The umbrella men

 the umbrella men are blooming inthe season of rain. they grow in the shade like magic mushrooms, unlooked-for and uncultured.they...

Pollen fever

*Contrary to what they believed, I was never allergic to skin. Or sunrays. I wasn’t a cadre.**Arrested by three....

Roll call

Trains came to a halt.Factory chimneys stopped breathing.Schools and hospitals boarded up their doors. But from his desk each morning,the...

The hanged man sings Kathmandu

IA nation cursed by the Sati.– Popular Nepali saying. Neither with a bang, nor with a whimper,But with the cries,...

Burma untold

We’re all Asian now

‘I’M NOT ASIAN and never will be,’ wrote Canadian author Karen Connelly in her Thai memoir, Touch the Dragon...

The lost option

 MONARCHY IN AUSTRALIA is an idea whose time is past. For some time now the question has been how...

Ray Parkin

[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id="15" gal_title="Enduring Legacies – Ray Parkin"]All images reproduced with the kind permission of the Parkin family.

The return of the Carrolup drawings

Gallipoli: the unmaking of a nation?
Barry Jones

Launch speech for Griffith Review 48: Enduring Legacies at Readings, CarltonWednesday, 22 April 2015I eagerly accepted the invitation to...

Belsen

All images © Nadia Wheatley   I VIVIDLY REMEMBER my reaction when I discovered that my father had worked at Belsen. This...

Staking a claim for peace

The stillness of the morning was broken by a terrific roar as thousands of guns spoke with a single...