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Sunday essay: on reckoning with the fact of one’s death

Image: Shuttlestock A friend is sending me documents needed to make me the executor of his will. He does not expect to die from...

‘I want to stare death in the eye’: why dying inspires so many writers and artists

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it. Haruki Murakami - Image www.shutterstock.com It may seem paradoxical, but dying can be...

THE FINAL STAGE – Adrian Rawlins review of what he called “My lost masterpiece”.

It started out like a normal day for the man of the house. He had breakfast with his wife. She was no warmer or...

THE DEAD AND THE DYING

The heavy decrepit bodies of the great and not so, mingled with their offsprings, children too young to realise that this too would be...

A WALK IN THE RAIN

He aged within the silences of our stilted conversation. His eyes were those of a man who’d seen his kingdoms fall and the survival...

BIRTHDAYS

I don’t look in the mirror anymore because it always startles me when I don’t recall the face.This year I had the most solitary...

I FOUGHT A WAR FOR YOU

The trumpets that break the dawn A fanfare to the dying and unborn Passion replaced by duty Love replaced by fear And the ticking of the clock Says “Young...

THAT’S HOW IT ENDS

She died in my arms Not a word was said In silence we rose And got out of our bed Her eyes would flash I knew them too well Every...

THIS PRISON HAS NO BARS

From the mansions of sadness To the bums on the street From the highways of loneliness To the halls of defeat I’ve watched your ascendance The road I never...

Death=Comedy

The Death of Daulman “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is...
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Mick Pacholli

Mick created TAGG - The Alternative Gig Guide in 1979 with Helmut Katterl, the world's first real Street Magazine. He had been involved with his fathers publishing business, Toorak Times and associated publications since 1972. Mick was also involved in Melbourne's music scene for a number of years opening venues, discovering and managing bands and providing information and support for the industry.Mick has also created a number of local festivals and is involved in not for profit and supporting local charities.