A reading of Alec Choate’s poem ‘Evening news…’. Taken from ‘Australian poetry 1988: the finest of recent Australian poetry’ edited by Vivan Smith. “There is a spider in the room” (Recorded in the winter, forgive the slightly nasal tone, and
Bend Sinister
A reading from Vladimir Nabakov’s ‘Bend sinister’ (1947). “Old Azureus’s manner of welcoming people was a silent rhapsody.”
A Room of One’s Own
A reading from Virginia Woolf’s ‘A room of one’s own’ (1929). “I refuse to allow you, beadle though you are, to turn me off the grass”