On the Road to Stratford single work   short story   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 On the Road to Stratford
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'Membership of the Adam Lindsay Gordon Society was a step on the path of literary aspiration. We stayed back after school under the tutelage of the English master and read from our own work in a deserted classroom. But the invitation to the Shakespeare Reading Society was the mark of acceptance, reading from the works of Shakespeare on a Sunday evening in the Headmaster’s house. This was the entrée to the higher world of culture and French words. French windows, too, opening out onto the croquet lawn from the long, low Georgian house, the trace of medieval monastic ruins beyond the grass at one end, the stand of horse chestnut trees at the other, and the Headmaster intoning Hamlet, Prince Hal, Lear, Macbeth, Othello. This was as the world would be, privilege, exclusivity: and the girls from the private school over the wall brought in to read the few girls’ parts. Knees together on the long, low couch. The Headmaster opposite in his arm chair. We attendant lords from the sixth form on straight-backed, hard, auxiliary seating.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Southerly Asylum vol. 64 no. 1 2004 Z1117656 2004 periodical issue A special double issue comprising two separately paged sections back-to-back. One section entitled 'Outsiders' is a shortened regular edition; the other section 'Another Country' , guest edited by Rosie Scott and Tom Keneally, features the writing of asylum seekers remaining in detention in Australia and those recently released. The writing was sourced with assistance from refugee advocates and community leaders. This section has also been published as a limited edition for PEN and the 2004 Sydney Writers' Festival. 2004 pg. 81-85
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    y separately published work icon Wild Amazement Michael Wilding , Rockhampton : Central Queensland University Press , 2006 Z1256150 2006 selected work short story autobiography Rockhampton : Central Queensland University Press , 2006 pg. 16-20
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    y separately published work icon The Midlands, and Leaving Them Michael Wilding , Beeston : Shoestring Press (UK) , 2021 22108204 2021 selected work short story Beeston : Shoestring Press (UK) , 2021 pg. 49-54
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