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From a perspective of some eighty years it is possible to misunderstand or underestimate the intensity of the fears—but also the hopes and aspirations—of the British people as they faced up to another colossal existential challenge, less than a full generation after what, it was now suddenly clear, had only been the first world war.
Sep 10 2024
11 mins
The Republican presidential contender is an acquired taste. Given the alternative, it's a taste persnickety conservatives should make the effort to acquire
Sep 09 2024
4 mins
Louis Groarke: ‘Snowfall (Via Negativa)’
Snowfall (Via Negativa)
Out on the highway, snow settles in place
Covering the tracks the traffic has traced;
Blotting out edges, disguising the rough,
It buries the world in heaps of white stuff.
It blankets the trees, their branches rimmed white
With down-drifting flakes that fill up the night.
Immaculate, empty—winter forlorn
Clears out a space where beauty is born.
So poets, in language, clear out a space;
In parsing out lines, they strive to erase.
Removing distinctions too sharply defined;
Cloaking in symbols what clutters the mind.
Subtracting, not adding, more from the world
As a ribbon of metaphor slowly unfurls.
’Til page, like landscape, briefly transfigured,
Is buried in beauty, sweetly disfigured.
Louis Groarke
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
