TOP DEFINITION shirtfront A brutal shoulder charge in  Australian Rules Football  ( AFL ) where a player instead of  tackling  a...

Theatre of the Actors of Regard in classic tableau, below, at the Tate Modern's recently opened ARTIST ROOMS : Ed Ruscha . photo ...

   The deep parts of my life pour onward,  as if the river shores were opening out.  It seems that things are more like me now,  That I ca...

The word idiot  comes from the Greek ἰδιώτης, idiōtēs 'a private person, individual', 'a private citizen' (as opposed to ...

so many paths go up from the foothills but one moon grazes the peak - Ikkyu (transl. Stephen Berg)   Netsuke depicting Ikkyu and his T...

after : The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction o...

Australian fiction writer Gerald Murnane is tipped to win this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. There’s no better time to watch Phi...

【三輪月底】1778-1860 江戸時代後期の俳人。 安永7年生まれ。尾張名古屋藩の大工。文化8年大工与頭代。はじめ井上士朗,のち竹内塊翁(かいおう)にまなび,名古屋俳壇を指導した。 万延元年5月13日死去。83歳。通称は勝四郎,直九郎など。別号に蓼光庵。里村逸八とも称した。...

Once more unto the breach, dear friends,      once more;             Or close the wall up with our English dead. Theatre of the A...

The Age :  Iraqi asylum seeker sews his lips together amid mounting despair at MITA, lawyer says by Bianca Hall, 23 July 2019 A despe...