New South Wales Is Different single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 New South Wales Is Different
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'... things are different in New South Wales, my father is saying. It's much bigger. It's drier. It's hotter. It's a lot hotter than this. We are standing at the long counter outside Flinders Street station. We are having a drink of orange juice from Mildura. It's a warm day just after the new year has started in January. It's the War. Across Prince's Bridge we can see the American sailors in their white gob-caps. Tonight they'll try to get into the Trocadero and dance with the Australian girls. I've been allowed to come in on the tram after school to Batman Avenue to meet Dad when he finishes work at the Bank in Collins Street. We'll probably go to Hearn's Hobbies later in Flinders Street to see the model cars and trains.' (Publication summary)

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    y separately published work icon Southerly Words and Music vol. 76 no. 1 August 2016 10422309 2016 periodical issue

    'This issue presents writing by musicians and writers who cross mediums to collaborate and experiment in the spaces between words and music, including Hilary Bell, Phillip Johnston and Jonathan Mills. It includes archivist John Murphy’s reflections on Peter Sculthorpe’s house and Joseph Toltz writes of the experience of researching musical recollections from the Holocaust, and presents some of these memories from survivors. Michael Hooper shows how listening to Elliott Gyger’s operatic adaptation of David Malouf’s Fly Away Peter also re-attunes us to the novel. Dick Hughes speculates on the (jazz) music of heaven while David Brooks keeps an ear to the ground in a meditation on “herd music”. There is also the usual cornucopia of stories, memoir, poems and reviews, both themed and unthemed.' (Publication summary)

    2016
    pg. 194-208
Last amended 10 Nov 2016 12:52:00
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