When I have fears
I have over the last year or so frequently relaxed in a meditative trance while listening…
Red Nostalgia
During the week I attended a lecture at my old university on the meaning of the…
Sorrow
“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and…
Dr Cogito regrets the futility of his existence
The next in my series of Dr Cogito poems, composed fresh this morning. Dr Cogito…
Dr Cogito brings his mind to heel
Here is another in my series of Dr Cogito poems Dr Cogito brings his mind to…
Improvisation on a train
On a red sore train I wonder what I will leave Behind when I am gone…
Fragile identities, fragile memories
It is justice which extracts from traumatizing remembrances their exemplary value, turns memory into a project, and it…
The return of sacred violence
“Central to both torture and terror is the political psychology of degradation” Paul Kahn, Sacred violence:…
The death of the soul
In The Australian this weekend Greg Sheridan, the conservative and perceptive foreign affairs journalist, comments on…
Free speech and public service
A minor controversy has broken out in Australia over restrictions on the free speech of public…