Granta 2009 (Aus/NZ, US) 9781847081162 All the world’s a stage… A novel as a performance, more – a novel as flirtation (the performance of flirting): self-conscious, inviting yet exclusive. The reader is all the roles, all the characters and all the actors – for in The Rehearsal there are layers of fictional existence – blended, … Continue reading Eleanor Catton’s The Rehearsal
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South-west. A poem by Geoff Lemon
South-west By Geoff Lemon I'm driving south. Or roughly south I'm sure of that. The car's a Mustang, 60s build rich with that old leather smell. Adam West is in the passenger seat, window halfway down. It's night and warm outside. The air rolls in like oil. Adam West is smoking - Chesterfields. Somehow this … Continue reading South-west. A poem by Geoff Lemon
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