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Show Me the Horror
The Measure of A.D. Hope
Robert Hughes Remembers
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My Brother's Keeper
National Steel
Nothing Left to Say
Sessionman's Blues
Song for Rita
Stranger in Town
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Thirty-year Man
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The Fire Of Joy
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Latest Readings
Cultural Amnesia
Play All
A Point Of View
Flying Visits
Essays
Visions Before Midnight
The Crystal Bucket
Glued To The Box
The Metropolitan Critic
At the Pillars of Hercules
As of This Writing
The Meaning of Recognition
>
Introduction
Polanski and the Pianist
Fantasy in the West Wing
Pushkin's Deadly Gift
Great Sopranos of Our Time
A Memory Called Malouf
Bing Crosby's Hidden Art
Larkin Treads the Boards
The Iron Capital of Bruno Schulz
Criticism a la Frank Kermode
Fast Talking Dames
Rough Guides to Shakespeare
General Election Sequence 2001
Primo Levi and the Painted Veil
A Big Boutique of Australian Essays
Cyrano on the Scaffold
A Nightclub in Bali
Aldous Huxley Then and Now
A Man Called Peter Porter
Philip Roth's Alternative America
The Miraculous Vineyard of Australian Poetry
Save Us From Celebrity
The Revolt of the Pendulum
>
The Question of Karl Kraus
John Bayley's Daily Bread
Kingsley and the Women
Canetti Man of Mystery
Camille Paglia Burns for Poetry
The Guidebook Detectives
Zuckerman Uncorked
The Flight from the Destroyer
Saying Famous Things
Insult to the Language
The Perfectly Bad Sentence
Happiness Writes White
All Stalkers Kill
Best Eaten Cold
White Shorts of Leni Reifenstahl
Made in Britain, More or Less
Movie Criticism in America
Show Me the Horror
The Measure of A.D. Hope
Robert Hughes Remembers
Modern Australian Painting
On Diamond Jim McClelland
The Voice of John Anderson
Niki Lauda Wins Going Slowly
Damon Hill's Bravest Day
Jonathan James-Moore
Ian Adam
Pat Kavanagh
Starting with Sludge
Guest Writers
>
Zoe Williams
Russell Davies
Bryan Appleyard
Marina Hyde
Bruce Beresford
Michael Frayn
Poetry
Poetry Collections
>
Fin de Fiesta
Injury Time
Sentenced to Life
>
Japanese Maple
Sentenced to Life
Procedure for Disposal
Leçons des ténèbres
Driftwood Houses
Event Horizon
Neuland
Echo Point
Change of Domicile
Holding Court
Too Much Light
Nature Programme
My Latest Fever
Nina Kogan's Geometrical Heaven
The Emperor's Last Words
Winter Plums
Nefertiti in the Flak Tower
>
Whitman and the Moth
The Falcon Growing Old
Angels over Elsinore
The Book of My Enemy
>
Recent Verse
Verse Letters
Opal Sunset
Other Passports
>
Recent Verse
>
The Book of My Enemy has been Remaindered
Parodies etc.
Earlier Verse
Verse Diaries
Fan Mail
>
To Russell Davies: a letter from Cardiff
To Martin Amis: a letter from Indianapolis
To Pete Atkin: a letter from Paris
To Prue Shaw: a letter from Cambridge
To Tom Stoppard: a letter from London
To Peter Porter: a letter to Sydney
Epic Poems
>
The River in the Sky
Gate of Lilacs
The Divine Comedy
>
Hell - Cantos 1-3
Purgatory - Cantos 1-3
Heaven - Cantos 1-3
Poem of the Year
Books About Poetry
>
Somewhere Becoming Rain
Poetry Notebook
>
Listening for the Flavour
Five Favourite Poetry Books
Velvet Shackles
Meeting MacNiece
The Donaghy Negotiation
Poetry Readings
Articles on Poetry
Back from The Web
Guest Poets
>
Daniel Brown
Liane Strauss
Les Murray
Peter Porter
Alan Jenkins
Stephen Edgar
John Stammers
Simon Barraclough
Isobel Dixon
Christian Wiman
Olivia Cole
Judith Beveridge
Peter Goldsworthy
Kapka Kassabova
Lyrics
My life in lyrics
Selected Song Lyrics
>
Dancing Master
Faded Mansion
Have You got a Biro I can Borrow?
I Have to Learn to Live Alone Again
Hill of Little Shoes
History & Geography
I See the Joker
Laughing Boy
My Brother's Keeper
National Steel
Nothing Left to Say
Sessionman's Blues
Song for Rita
Stranger in Town
Sunlight Gate
The Egoist
The Eye of the Universe
The Ice Cream Man
Femme Fatale
The Master of the Revels
Thirty-year Man
Winter Spring
Video
Talking in the Library
>
Series One
Series Two
Series Three
Series Four
Series Five
Postcards
CJ on YouTube
Radio
A Point Of View
Book Talk