Books & Poetry
Alex Frayne’s Distance and Desire is a tome of visual poetry capturing the vastness and diversity of the South Australian landscape – from red-dirt scrub, long country roads and forgotten towns, to suburban back streets and windswept coastlines.
Books & Poetry
Peter Goers is high-profile and he is a ‘sharer’. He has a nightly radio audience and a weekly press audience and he tells them everything every day. Or does he?
Wayne Anthoney’s decision to leave his science job and pursue a career as a clown and actor saw him become a household name and perform everywhere from the Australian outback to a Costa Rican jail. Samela Harris looks back over his journey and gives a taste of what to expect from his new memoir.
Samela Harris was 12 when she first met Barry Humphries after her father brought him home for dinner. It was also the first time she was let loose in the kitchen.
As high-profile Adelaide artist Andrew Baines prepares to show his latest work in a new solo show titled The Search for Sanity, he reveals to Samela Harris some of the underlying things that drive the engine of his art.
The Bakehouse Theatre this month mounts its final show, A Streetcar Named Desire, featuring cameos by theatre stalwarts Pamela Munt and Peter Green. When the curtain falls it will sell its colourful collection of memorabilia – and an era will be over.
Former Greenhill Galleries owner, radio and television presenter, performer and critic Russell Starke could turn his hand to anything, writes his friend Samela Harris: ‘Russell was a rare example of a true Renaissance man’.
