Remembering a man of letters, and a friend

Forty years of friendship

Remembering Australian painters

It was not so much a headlong rush from Europe, more a slow return to Sydney, for instead of hopping onto a plane, which would have been easier, Delage had chosen to return by ship, and not one of the P&O queens, a container ship, stacked with the …

1) the geography teacher, Mr Sullivan, loose cheeks, throat and bottom lip, and trousers too loose – always hitching them up; a general worn-out appearance in clothing and eyelids. The nicotine-stained fingers, his short-sleeved shirts. Talking about …