Republics in distress
As I look around the world at the state of politics, I conclude that our democratic…
Poem: The state of politics
Poetry and politics make for strained companions. The politics of poets is unreliable, inclined to the…
Poem: Nouriel’s Shoes
The following poem is from my Burning Archive collection. It had its origins in a strategic…
Kafka’s writing on the borderlands of dream and thought
Over at Open Culture, there is a fascinating post on a recent medical study linking the…
The infinite conversation and survival
I have written before in the Burning Archive of the metaphor for writing, and its eternal…
An accidental tourist
Here is a poem of mine from about a year ago. When the wind blows from…
Mr Dylan’s bad language
I like to check out the winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature. The world of…
From flashbacks to testimony – reflections on the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Childhood Sexual Abuse
In September last year I delivered a paper to a conference sponsored by a major research…
On humility
For many years I have believed that Carl Jung once said or wrote that “you must…
Adam Phillips, In Writing
Adam Phillips: “Writing needn’t be a world domination project… but just the attempt to find enough…