Adelaide. Australia.University of South Australia. I was talking at Magill Campus yesterday of how words can be weapons. If you are given bad words in childhood, “shot down” say, they may affect Read more [...]

Here for you is the film of an "in conversation" with interlocutor, author and journalist Michael Jacobs at The Bob Hawke Institute In Adelaide Australia on 18th August. The patron of The Bob Hawke Institute Read more [...]

It was 1986. I was at Edinburgh Fringe Festival performing my first play with Leigh Drama Centre. After my play finished I read poetry to very small audiences. Very. Small. Audiences. An aboriginal woman Read more [...]

Adelaide University.The Library. Australia. “you’re the first reader of your story and that’s part of the joy of writing. It’s making the connections between what you didn’t know” said Peter Read more [...]

Rockford Hotel. Adelaide Australia. The phone rings “lemn” says nadia my tour manager “Lemn I have been banging on your door for ten minutes” It’s not a problem I think “cool I will be down Read more [...]

Imagination and fact. One memory of an event is never the same as another persons memory of the same event. Who’s right? In truth and without moral judgement both are. It is through a moral framework Read more [...]

I am here in Adelaide, Australia at the request of UNISA, The University of Southern Australia. Been here since August 6th. Tonight I performed Something Dark, my play, to a capacity audience at The Read more [...]

Rockford Hotel. Adelaide. Australia. Yesterday I met a mathmatician through his Ethiopian wife Elsabet Tamrat who found me. She invited me to her home surrounded by pines in the forest inhabited by wild Read more [...]

Yet in light of his subject, in light of dialogue, his theorem so easily fell apart. And what was singular eloquence becomes a street brawl where armed with the bullying cosh of intellect and imperious Read more [...]

Historian David Starkey has caused a racial hail storm due to his inflammatory comments on national television. But I believe Starkey’s aim is not to incite but to elevate. Can’t you hear the death Read more [...]