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The Editor of Quadrant Music, Alexander Voltz, has won the symphonic section of the prestigious George Enescu International Competition in Bucharest.
Sep 03 2024
1 mins
The September 2024 issue of our magazine is now available via our website and in newsagents. You can click here to view the contents. Digital subscribers can enjoy the PDF and online articles now, and print subscribers will receive their hardcopies in the mail.
Sep 02 2024
0 mins
Peter Jeffrey: ‘Haiku Thoughts’ and ‘La Grande Odalisque’
Haiku Thoughts
Haiku aren’t much chop
Unless they’re in Japanese,
This one proves my point.
Even in Japan
A native speaker told me,
Haiku are low art.
Hokusai is not
A haiku, he’s a tiger
Smiling in the snow.
Peter Jeffrey
La Grande Odalisque
by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Serene, seductive, serpentine,
The French curves of your back define
The line of beauty, Hogarth’s line.
Geometry transcending time
Defies mundane anatomy,
As lapped in Orient luxury
And dreaming sensuality
You gaze into infinity.
Peter Jeffrey
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
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
Aug 16 2024
2 mins
