England 2025: Overview Please join me on this pilgrimage which begins in June/ July 2025. Please find the updated draft itinerary in the document that you can download at the end of this Overview. Please note that pricing for the pilgrimage is still being negotiated and the final details and the place where you can…
Two Canticles At a cottage by the sea I tackle Francis Webb, curious about his poetry from Cap and Bells. Outside a wild spring ocean’s curled waves tussle on the tide, comb to the edge, like spoonbills probing every squint of sand and wrack. The horizon — is drawn-in, appropriate for this day in this…
Here are the slides and the recording for this week’s lecture. The recording is a little frustrating to listen to because you will only be able to hear my side of the conversation. From next week I will be posting up the video version of our sessions (with student permission) and you will then be…
Here is our fabulous group of 2018 in the heart of Harlem, New York, indeed at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. This was one of our most exciting and informative days in which the beating heart of American culture was opened to us through the oratorical powers of Cedric our African American…
Russell Drysdale “The Mountain Has Its Own Meaning” Judith Wright An occasion for celebration: Australian Literature – a first year unit at Australian Catholic University- has again produced an extraordinary group of bloggers. Their work reveals how blogging has enabled them to connect with Aust. Lit. in a way that expands beyond the rigours of…
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We tackled this question in our class this week. Here is a very simple way of showing the differences. We drew attention to these differences initially with special reference to Shakespeare. We have all just been to see As You Like It with John Bell in a leading role. We were trying to identify why and…
The Clemente Program being run from Australian Catholic University in close partnership with range of Welfare Organizations such as Mission Australia, was started some years ago by an American, Earl Shorris. Shorris had a vision that poverty stricken Americans needed a way in which they could reclaim their dignity, their creative spirit, their intelligence. He wrote a…
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