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'At a gathering recently I heard a rendition of Paul Kelly's song 'Meet Me in the Middle of the Air'. It brought back the moment, more than ten years ago, when I first heard Kelly sing it in a pub in Torquay, on the coast southwest of Melbourne.' (Introduction)
A Strange Rolei"About the role of a poet, a strange role, difficult to discern any pattern, poets are always pocketing scraps of",John Falzon,
single work poetry
'Narungga Elder, Tauto Sansbury, NAIDOC lifetime achievement winner, died 23 September after a lifetime of campaigning. Among other matters his key concern was to make the criminal justice system just for Aboriginal people. In the early days of the SA Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement Tauto designed its logo, with the motto: 'Justice Without Prejudice'.' (Introduction)