Pardon me for mentioning-- : unpublished letters to The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald / edited by Alex Kaplan, Julie Lewis and Catharine Munro.
Publication details: Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2013.Description: xviii, 179 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 9781742379432 (hbk.)
- Unpublished letters to The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald
- Age (Melbourne, Vic.)
- Sydney Morning Herald
- Sydney morning herald
- Age (Melbourne, Vic.)
- Sydney morning herald
- Letters to the editor -- New South Wales -- Sydney
- Letters to the editor -- Victoria -- Melbourne
- Australian newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc
- Australian poetry
- Australian wit and humor
- Letters to the editor -- New South Wales -- Sydney
- 070.44209944 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 070.442 KAP | Available | 054728 |
Writers of letters to The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald are poets, dreamers and provocateurs. The overwhelming majority is in search of a better world, even if some disguise their aspiration in a sheath that is crackling dry. They are possessed of good sense and a wicked sense of humour. No topic is off limits. Yet hundreds of offerings bite the dust every day. Some are too late. Too vulgar. Too confessional. Some writers are victims of their own success and are at risk of overexposure. Others don't meet the Herald's stringent verification rules. Others are delightfully (but unprintably) kooky. All are kept. From Tony Abbott's dress-ups to Julia Gillard's karate chop, Judith Lucy's sex life and the perils of proposing to your pet, the vault is opened and our writers' wit, insight and imagination are unleashed.
