PUNCHUP PRESS has extensive experience writing feature articles for arts companies and their publications. Here is a selection of recent work for Sydney Theatre Company and The Australian Writers’ Guild.
Awards, War and Wagga Wagga by Laura Scrivano. Cover story for Storyline published by the Australian Writers’ Guild.
Read this article at http://www.awg.com.au/artman/uploads/storyline_21_web.pdf
Dreaming India, Grief and Respect and Pure Passion by Laura Scrivano
Read these articles at http://stc.ice4.interactiveinvestor.com.au/STC0802/Currents%20March%2008/EN/body.aspx?z=1&p=12&v=2&uid=
Precious Lives: The Serpent’s Teeth by Jo Lennan.
Read this article at http://stc.ice4.interactiveinvestor.com.au/STC0802/Currents%20March%2008/EN/body.aspx?z=1&p=10&v=2&uid=
Only An Actor: Robyn Nevin and The Year of Magical Thinking by Frances Simmons.
Read this article at http://stc.ice4.interactiveinvestor.com.au/STC0802/Currents%20March%2008/EN/body.aspx?z=1&p=6&v=2&uid=
Please do not spit, 1906. Harold Cazneaux (1878-1953). 1 glass negative; 10.7 x 8.2 cm. Image courtesy of the National Library of Australia.
When they looked back across the vast, dark gulf of the Great War to recall the years before, those glorious long light-filled days seemed a Belle Epoque indeed. And of all the possessions of the pre-war realm, Sydney was the jewel. So why were all the photographs so grim? Well, dramatic shadows were the vogue, and pictorial photographers shot to taste. That was until Harold Cazneaux and his coterie resolved to let some sunshine in. From then on, Sydney was cast in a new light.
“Harold Cazneaux: Artist in photography”, 5 June to 10 August 2008 at The Art Gallery of New South Wales.
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/current/harold_cazneaux
“He’s given her a lecture
when all he wanted to do
was follow the white
bobs of her tail
disappearing
into the scarlet flowers.”
Tails are terribly distracting things, but Peter Henry Lepus is a rabbit with other ideas. He’s the bright-eyed protagonist of the poems of JS Harry, whom Peter Porter calls Australia’s “most arresting” poet. And this year, he’s reporting from Iraq:
http://www.giramondopublishing.com/imprint_titles/index.html#notfindingwittgenstein
seaweed like that could kill you (Jo Lennan, 2008)
