My poem ‘Pronunciation Lesson’ was broadcast on Saturday in the repeat of ABC’s Poetica’s episode Hearing. You can listen online.
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Reading & watching- The Casketeers Season 1 (Annabelle Lee-Harris 2018) 7 August 2020This looks like a mockumentary but apparently it's the real thing. It follows Maori funeral directors Francis and Kaiora Tipene and their staff as they go about their work.I had to check, and found that Tipene Funerals really does exist in Auckland. The Tipenes don't mind making themselves look silly, yet they manage to treat the deceased with resp […]
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Chiwetel Ejiofor 2019) 7 August 2020A wonderful film written and directed by the star of Twelve Years a Slave, set in Malawi, about a young boy who persists with what he learns at in the school library to save his village from disaster.
- The Devil's Playground (Fred Schepisi 1976) 4 August 2020I have no idea what anyone else will make of the film, but it captures an era in Catholicism in Australia, and an experience of it that is very close to my own. So of course I want to argue with it some of the time, but at others can barely believe my eyes, and especially ears. I love it.
- Shetland Series 5 (based on novels by Ann Cleeves 2019) 4 August 2020This was on just before Vera on Sunday night, so we got a double dose of Ann Cleeves and fabulous British scenery.
- Amazon: Local Hero (Bill Forsyth 1983) 4 August 2020This is as much fun as it was 37 years ago, except now there's the added wonder of seeing Peter Capaldi as a gawky young man.
- The Casketeers Season 1 (Annabelle Lee-Harris 2018) 7 August 2020
