How good was John Clarke? Some reflections on his poetics of tinkering
- Written by: Robert Phiddian, Professor of English, Flinders University
John Clarke: his tinkering involved prolonged fiddling with words to get tone, rhythm and meaning exactly right.ABC/AAP
In April this year, the Ukraine elected comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy as its president, and the ABC reported on a sudden upsurge in Australian interest in something similar here. Many names came forward, but the only actually dead...
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