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Volume 9 Number 4 EU May 1999 A magazine of public affairs, the arts and theology 22 CoNTENTS THE PHOSPHOR OF A CITY: PETER PORTER'S 4 IMAGINATION Cover: Beach Road Beaumaris, COMMENT by Clarice Beckett, c1919, With Morag Fraser, Andrew Hamilton Peter Steele inhales the smoke of cities oil on board, 35.5 x 25.4cm, and Toby O'Connor. with one of Australia's finest poets. collection: Alan and Lesl y Martin. He also reviews Porter's new volumes All reproductions of Beckett 7 of Collected Poems, 1961-1999 (p25) . paintings courtesy The Ian CAPITAL LETTER Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne. Paintings are from the 8 Paintings by Australian artist exhibition 'Clarice Beckett: THE MONTH'S TRAFFIC Clarice Beckett (1887-1935). Politi cally Incorrect', curated With Becci Fleischer, Jim Davidson, by Rosalind Hollinrake. Design by Siobhan Jackson. Lee Cataldi, Kate Manton and James Griffin. Photograph of Peter Porter p3 by Greg Scullin. 11 32 Photograph of C larice Beckett p3 co urtesy Ian Potter Museum. SUMMA THEOLOGIAE BOOKS Graphi cs pp8- 9, 17- 18, 41 Rob Darby reviews Frances de Groen's by Siobhan Ja ckson. 12 biography of Xavier Herbert; Peter Pierce BUSH LAWYER reviews Keith Beattie's The Scar that The exhibition of Clarice Beckett's work, 'Clarice Beckett: Binds: American Culture and the Politically Incorrect', is 15 Vietnam War (p36); Jon Greenaway currently touring Australia, ARCHIMEDES surveys the life of Burma's having completed its opening season at the Ian Potter Museum Aung San Suu Kyi (p38); of Art, University of Melbourne. 16 Ian Dunn reviews Michael Cannon's Sydney: 24 April-13 June 1999, RUNNING ERRANDS FOR THE That Disreputable Firm ... The Inside S. H. Ervin Gallery (National Trust of Australia NSW); GOVERNMENT Story of Slater etJ Gordon (p41 ). Orange, NSW: 19 June- 18 July Moira Rayner looks with alarm at 1999, Orange Regional Gallery; government accountability. Adelaide: 6 August- 42 19 September 1999, Art Gallery PLAYTIME of South Australia; 18 Geoffrey Milne on the Come Out Youth Bendigo, VIC: 30 September- INTEGRITY: THE LONG WALK Arts Festival in Adelaide. 31 October 1999, Bendigo Art Gallery; Ballarat, VIC: Antony Campbell on the challenge of 5 November 1999- 16 January unconditional love. 44 2000, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery; FLASH IN THE PAN Hobart: 3 February- 26 March 2000, Tasmanian Museum and 20 Reviews of the films Divorcing Ja ck; Art Gallery; Burnie, TAS: IN MEMORIAM Lolita; The Craie; Happiness; Praise and 7 April-22 May 2000, Michael McGirr on Indonesian social Hilary and Ja ckie. Burnie Regional Art Ga llery. reformer and priest, Y.B. Mangunwijaya. 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Australia Post Print Post approved pp349181/00314, Art comes out of transformative processes like these. is published ten times a year Art can also be the botanical garden for those of us who take by Eureka Street Magazine Pty Ltd, the time to read or look or hear with our defences put behind 300 Victoria Street, Richmond, Victoria 3 121 Tel: 03 942 7 73 11 Fax: 03 9428 4450 us for a while. email: [email protected] So in this month of May, which will be a jangle of war, http:/ jwww .openplanet.com.a ujeureka/ dispossession, political stridency and opportunism, our cover Responsibility for editorial content is accepted by records one still moment. The car, moving toward you like Daniel Madigan, 300 Victoria Street, Richmond. the onset of winter, was painted by Clarice Beckett, who died Printed by Doran Printing, 46 Industrial Drive, Braeside VIC 3 195. when she was only 47. Her Melbourne contemporaries were © Jesuit Publications 1999 concerned with more heroic subjects; Beckett recorded the Unsolicited manuscripts, including poetry and fragile moment. On this page you can catch a different fiction, will be returned only if accompanied by seasonal moment, a turn of a shoulder into the bleaching a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Requests for summer sun, in The Red Sunshade (1932). Many of Beckett's permission to reprint materi al fro m the magazine should be addressed in writing to: paintings were dest royed after h er death-fashion and The editor, Eu reka Street magazi ne, carelessness contributing to a loss that is ours now.