“Sod the wine, I want to suck on the writing. This man White is an instinctive writer, bloody rare to find one who actually pulls it off, as in still gets a meaning across with concision. Sharp arbitrage of speed and risk, closest thing I can think of to Cicero’s ‘motus continuum animi.’

Probably takes a drink or two to connect like that: he literally paints his senses on the page.”


DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little, Ludmila’s Broken English, Lights Out In Wonderland ... Winner: Booker prize; Whitbread prize; Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman prize; James Joyce Award from the Literary & Historical Society of University College Dublin)


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09 April 2014

60,000 HOURS OF VOLUNTEER SERVICE

There was a modest and sober lunch - and delicious, made from local stuff - on the Lake Alexandrina waterfront yesterday, in the old Murray River Port of Milang. This was to thank and honour the determined local activists who've put in over 60,000 hours of volunteer work revegetating the lower lake sides and the Murray estuary. These people are quiet heroes. The event, and the luncheon setting was the work of a determined group of artists led by Annabelle Collett ... all photos by Philip White


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