Music
Roomful of Teeth return to Australia with a ‘festival of vocal colour’

Six years after making their Adelaide debut on the cusp of the pandemic, Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth make their return next month following a period of evolution and experimentation.

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Books & Poetry
‘The only ecstasy in my life’: Reopening Barbara Hanrahan’s diaries

As the publication of Helen Garner’s decades-long diaries sparks a late-career revival, critic Jo Case reflects on the similarly expansive and exposing journals of the late artist and writer Barbara Hanrahan, published posthumously in 1998. Initially pored over for literary gossip, today they reveal an artist deeply, painfully permeated by the world.

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Books & Poetry
Poem: Rarus

This week’s Poet’s Corner contribution is from Meg Dolan in Queensland.

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