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JANE CLIFTON
Nov 6, 20221 min read
JETTISON - from the French, to throw
November 6th 2022 - JETTISON 3 weeks on inundation into liquidation slow stagnation and acceptance of what’s gone the mood is one of...
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JANE CLIFTON
Oct 30, 20221 min read
RIVER
October 30th 2022 - RIVER malevolent slug sulking cowering brown and bloated just below the rocks now lurking lapping seething with...
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JANE CLIFTON
Oct 28, 20222 min read
Floodlines
October 27th 2022 - FLOOD I miss my nook encased by books my shelves and shelves of former selves of thoughts ideas and rhetoric and...
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JANE CLIFTON
Jul 23, 20223 min read
2 Shows To Go Ya
I knew it would go quickly, this season, but it has flown and here I am with 2 shows to go ya. I have loved – am loving – every moment of...
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JANE CLIFTON
Jul 15, 20221 min read
Review
".....please note: A Day at a Time is not a poetry reading; it is an assured performance. And whether or not the poems were written for...
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JANE CLIFTON
Jul 10, 20221 min read
SHOWTIME!
July 10th I’ve put the dust on notice the dishes and the crust that’s building round the trivets I’ve put the garden beds and compost...
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JANE CLIFTON
Jul 2, 20221 min read
Show opening soon. Hurry book now
Getting excited now... My new show at La Mama opens in 11 days and tickets are starting to move. I would love to see you there in person,...
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JANE CLIFTON
Apr 13, 20221 min read
APRIL 13 – Day 2
no on second thoughts no this is a bad idea I said I just wanna close my ears to everything about this election I said close inspection...
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JANE CLIFTON
Apr 12, 20221 min read
Election 2022 - Day 1
tongues out lies in Howard’s got your rival’s back now that’s a thing tongue in cheek lies and gags abound and gaffes will come around to...
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JANE CLIFTON
Apr 9, 20221 min read
April 9th – POSITIVELY C
it’s the club nobody wants to join but once you’re in you are a part of history lifetime membership posterity Germ of the Century has...
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JANE CLIFTON
Mar 18, 20221 min read
ROUND ONE
first round hearts pound thrills amongst the swill of beer cups and chip trays hip hip hoorays fat people in small seats leap to their...
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JANE CLIFTON
Mar 12, 20221 min read
My perfect average Sunday - for Lisa Leong
in the upside-down world that is showbiz my perfect average Sunday means a job us mob of showfolk rock a different schedule to the 9-5...
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JANE CLIFTON
Mar 5, 20221 min read
Ode to Warnie
did Shane Warne read in flight of great Rod Marsh’s passing and murmur to himself ‘too soon’ not knowing that the keeper’s reaper lurked...
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JANE CLIFTON
Feb 6, 20221 min read
Queenie, queenie....
WHO’S GOT THE BALL? why hate the queen surely there are bigger fish to fry to wish they’d up and die how does she affect your life down...
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JANE CLIFTON
Jan 27, 20222 min read
Sister Janet, Who Art In Heaven
Jesus Christ, Superstar, Jason and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Godspell – the Lord with a capital ‘L’ was back in town in the 70s...
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JANE CLIFTON
Jan 14, 20222 min read
Mallacoota road
An emotional journey it was. All along the highway of Princes, through the Sale and the Yarragon not tarragon and Bairnsdale of the...
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JANE CLIFTON
Oct 21, 20211 min read
End of Lockdown (auspicious date, that 21/10/21)
October 21 slide the lock turn back the clock to free to how it used to be well…. not really but it will have to do we knew this day...
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JANE CLIFTON
Oct 18, 20212 min read
Small ceremonies
In these challenging times of limited celebrations, we seem to be drawn even more strongly by the need for ritual. Spread mayhem and...
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JANE CLIFTON
Sep 23, 20211 min read
Lest We Forget
September 22 Quaker rumble crunch the walls are shaking and the ceiling I lie quaking as the world rocks to an end the noise the noise...
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JANE CLIFTON
Sep 10, 20211 min read
Ode to Footy
September 21st, 2018 FINALLY young men at their peak smooth-cheeked this day will not repeat this prime of life each muscle sleek and...
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