Janet Moran’s performance exuded the confidence of a woman secure in her bodily attractiveness and willing to surrender to her drives, while David Pearse’s Bloom was steady, sane, thoughtful, loveable, Continue reading
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Slow Reading of Ulysses in Brisbane
With slow reading, we take our time: whatever time the members want to take with it. We read together, page by page (no preparations or homework needed), stopping whenever we want for discussion Continue reading
‘Ulysses’ in the dock
For those with a literary bent, with legal training, interested in censorship or with a James Joyce obsession, this book about the American trials in which Ulysses was alleged to be pornographic is an engaging and enlightening read. Continue reading
Joyce with his Nose in the Air
Handed such a whiffy text, director Wayne Pearn took a deep breath and turned it into a play piece of encaptivating ingenuity Continue reading
‘1904 and all that…’: Barry Jones on James Joyce
James Joyce was one of a long list of great writers who failed to win the Nobel Prize for Literature: Ibsen, Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Zola, Hardy, Henry James, August Strindberg…. Continue reading
Bloomsday Events – Getting Up James Joyce’s Nose
James Joyce’s literary masterpiece IS to be sniffed at. Continue reading
Bloomsday 2017 – Getting Up James Joyce’s Nose
James Joyce, and Steampunk? Circus? Vaudeville? and the squiffy liffey, and worse? Continue reading
The Tatty Tenors of Brisbane Sing for Bloomsday 2017
Who are the Tatty Tenors of Brisbane, and their history…. Continue reading
Author and Broadcaster, Frank Delaney,
‘the most eloquent man in the world’ Continue reading
THE JOYCE GIRL. By Annabel Abbs.
Indeed the book could be read as a salutary account of a dysfunctional family inside a happy marriage. Continue reading