Poems

'Laugh', a new poem by Thomas Shapcott

by Thomas Shapcott •

October 2013, no. 355

Poems

'Laugh', a new poem by Thomas Shapcott

by Thomas Shapcott •

October 2013, no. 355

What is it about laughter that makes us lift
As if the burden might be gone or the weight
Be somehow alleviated? Laughter is just noise.

Thomas Shapcott

Thomas Shapcott is an Australian poet, novelist, playwright, editor, librettist, short story writer and teacher. He has received numerous rewards and accolades for his work, and in 1989 was appointed an Officer (AO) of the Order of Australia.

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Literary Studies

Telling Lives: The Seymour Biography Lecture 2005-2023 edited by Chris Wallace

by Richard Freadman
Commentary

Drinking from coconuts: When Australians weren’t scared of Papua New Guinea

by Seumas Spark
Pandemic

Australia’s Pandemic Exceptionalism: How we crushed the curve but lost the race by Steven Hamilton and Richard Holden

by Johanna Leggatt
Politics

Liberalism as a Way of Life by Alexandre Lefebvre

by Scott Stephens

Thomas Shapcott

From the New Issue

Telling Lives: The Seymour Biography Lecture 2005-2023 edited by Chris Wallace

Drinking from coconuts: When Australians weren’t scared of Papua New Guinea

Australia’s Pandemic Exceptionalism: How we crushed the curve but lost the race by Steven Hamilton and Richard Holden

Liberalism as a Way of Life by Alexandre Lefebvre

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