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Fathers'Day
fathers’ day the old one and the new the dead one and the now vying for attention in our hearts and in our souls rough feelings bubble up...
JANE CLIFTON
Sep 3, 20231 min read
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Flood of the Blood
My name is Jane Clifton and I have lived in MARIBYRNONG, with my partner, Paul Williamson, since 1996. We knew the property was on a...
JANE CLIFTON
Mar 16, 20237 min read
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The Christmas Mist
THE MIST good will seeps like mist through tiny pores past oak-thick doors of brick-hard fierce resistance to the yule stubborn as mules...
JANE CLIFTON
Dec 22, 20221 min read
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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...
JANE CLIFTON
Nov 6, 20221 min read
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RIVER
October 30th 2022 - RIVER malevolent slug sulking cowering brown and bloated just below the rocks now lurking lapping seething with...
JANE CLIFTON
Oct 30, 20221 min read
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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...
JANE CLIFTON
Oct 28, 20222 min read
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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...
JANE CLIFTON
Jul 23, 20223 min read
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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...
JANE CLIFTON
Jul 15, 20221 min read
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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...
JANE CLIFTON
Jul 10, 20221 min read
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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,...
JANE CLIFTON
Jul 2, 20221 min read
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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...
JANE CLIFTON
Apr 13, 20221 min read
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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...
JANE CLIFTON
Apr 12, 20221 min read
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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...
JANE CLIFTON
Apr 9, 20221 min read
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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...
JANE CLIFTON
Mar 18, 20221 min read
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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...
JANE CLIFTON
Mar 12, 20221 min read
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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...
JANE CLIFTON
Mar 5, 20221 min read
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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...
JANE CLIFTON
Feb 6, 20221 min read
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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...
JANE CLIFTON
Jan 27, 20222 min read
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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...
JANE CLIFTON
Jan 14, 20222 min read
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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...
JANE CLIFTON
Oct 21, 20211 min read
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