hugh wade

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  • Old on the outside

    Old on the outside

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    My mate Grahame, recently came to visit from Essex, England. We’ve known each other since the late 60s at Sydney University. He was about to drop out of electrical engineering to become a pop star and I was about to drop out of Medicine and get a job. Fast forward fifty odd years and he…

  • Poetry pack number 12

    Poetry pack number 12

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    Night trains started out while musing on the late night echoing of freight trains very close to where I lived at the time. Naturally it developed twists and turns and self reflection along the way. Not really dark, but definitely beyond the flippant and comic observance of other poems of mine. This next piece was…

  • Poetry pack number 10

    Poetry pack number 10

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    I lived in beachside Bronte for twenty years, last of the renters, before I moved north to look after my Mum at the end of 2012. Many lovely people, stories, parties and meals over that time. The Café Village by the Sea tried to capture some of that. La Donna Maria Maria was extraordinarily integral…

  • Poetry pack number 9

    Poetry pack number 9

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    Back in the cafe village by the sea for a while. For a short time, I read poems semi regularly on the community radio station Bondi Radio. Once I was asked to write a poem about hindsight, and one about Halloween. Here they are. Blue days. Conversations and thoughts about depression, triggered by a sense…

  • Poetry pack number four

    Poetry pack number four

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    Lifebeats Youth grant Balm Tartangi woman Understanding sweet sorrow November moon

  • Poetry pack number three

    Poetry pack number three

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    Men in tracksuits Sad smiling Aphrodite Country summer City winter Inches away from millimetre perfect Red light clatter

  • Recording time

    Recording time

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    Just finished recording twenty recent poems … 19 of which I have updated on this blog, and one has gone missing … or should I say “has been temporarily misplaced”. Ironically, its the one about me being stuck in a small country town for three days after losing my car keys after a “Music, Art…

  • First time musings

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    First time playing with a blog, rather than a website. Hoping to provide an easy to access interface for showcasing my creative work. Starting with some voice demos.   Spoken word and narration   My favourite job and others