A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten

The poet, essayist and wit was a Sydney Tech High schoolmate of rugby league's revered champion Reg Gasnier, who died in 2014 at 74. James penned this recollection a decade or so earlier, when the Prince of Centres had been reduced by the consequences of a brain tumor to a shadow of his old self

"If, from now on, dams are built instead of desalination plants — which in recent years have been proved to yield a fraction of the water at a multiple of the cost — then we will be able to tell that sanity has returned to at least one section of the vast area covered by the pretensions of the climatologists"

On a Thin Gold Chain   Opals have storms in […]

I take off my disguise and thus reveal The man […]

Quadrant's poetry editor has won the State Library of Queensland's Judith Wright Calanthe Award for his most recent book, 'Waiting for the Past'. In our June edition, Clive James hailed the collection and the poet "who fills the sky not just in his homeland but in all the world"

Even when he was well, and merely old instead of […]

My Home   Grasping at straws, I bless another day […]

Manly Ferry   Too frail to fly, I may not […]