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'A personal anecdote, to begin. In a letter to the press in late 2014, Barry Humphries asked: Has Australia gone slightly mad? I read in the London press of some poor professor in Sydney who has been persecuted and suspended for sending emails to a friend in which he employs outrageous vernacular epithets for race which would be offensive if they were not so clearly jocular' (Publication abstract)
'It is the greatest misfortune and the spookiest coincidence that Sandy Stone vanished on the same day his brilliant manager Barry Humphries died. Although Sandy had died half a century ago—in his bed in April 1971—his ghost continued to reappear, not to haunt us but to remind us of a parochial, partisan, prejudiced age yet one which was otherwise gentler, simpler and overwhelmingly suburban.' (Introduction)
'Sandy Stone is one of the great poetic creations of Australian literature-or perhaps one should say theatre and literature, since it is impossible to imagine him without Barry Humphries's performance of Sandy's disappointed but stoic face, eyes and mouth and his representation of his quavering voice. He is also Barry Humphries's favourite character, and possibly the public's: when he died in 1971, there was not a dry eye in the house and his return as a revenant must have been in part due to popular demand.'
(Introduction)
(p. 32-38)
Sky Watchi"The overture began with nothingness,",Marye Trim,
single work poetry
(p. 39)
An Obiti"Plenitude came knocking at my door,",Marye Trim,
single work poetry
(p. 39)
