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Culture September 27, 2025
Six poems
“Around the stone, unusually smooth I’d feel the spit inside my cheeks and think of how an oyster works at a single piece of grit. I remember once reading that sucking at a pebble could stave off thirst. I doubted this and always felt a shiver when …”
Culture June 12, 2021
Performance artist Mike Parr
Mike Parr is Australia’s most-celebrated performance artist. His latest work undoes assumptions about what it means to look and to see.
podcast February 22, 2024
Why Kate Jennings Is There in Everything Erik Jensen Writes
Michael chats with The Saturday Paper’s editor in chief about Australian author Kate Jennings’ life and work and Erik shares why her novel, Snake, is the best Australian book he’s ever read.
Culture May 08, 2021
Black walnuts
In Memoriam Kate Jennings: poet, novelist, feminist (1948–2021)
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