Report from a besieged city (Melbourne)
Today 12 February, Melbourne and all the citizens of Victoria have been thrown, with eleven hours…
On living not by lies
2020 has taught us through bitter experience that our societies are not vaccinated against totalitarianism, and…
Sebald’s sentences
“Max” W.G. Sebald wrote some of the most mesmerising sui generis texts of 20th century literature….
Cantos from a cage
Today I am reposting this reflection on the true heritage of Ezra Pound, Cantos from a…
Dream. Life. Recovery.
For several years in my early thirties, I attended a dream group with the Jungian psychotherapist,…
America’s fate: civil war, fragmentation or collapse?
Today after the distressing events and death in the Capitol building of Washington DC that interrupted…
This grey spirit seeking a sinking star
But more so than the moulted carapace of governing that lies at my feet, I connected to the adventurer of the spirit, weakened by age and misfortune, that Tennyson saw in Ulysses. It was this grey spirit that I turned to this morning for the courage to continue.
Taking time with Szymborska
I have established several practices for the New Year to make it a more mindful, culturally…