Mr John Clarke

John was on ABC Radio National this morning talking about one of his favourite love poems. You can listen here or download it here.

The poem he selected was ‘For A Father’ by Anthony Cronin. The text follows.

With the exact length and pace of his father’s stride
The son walks,
Echoes and intonations of his father’s speech
Are heard when he talks.

Once when the table was tall and the chair a wood
He absorbed his father’s smile
And carefully copied the way that he stood.

He grew into exile slowly
With pride and remorse,
In some way better than his begetters,
In others worse.

And now having chosen, with strangers,
Half glad of his choice
He smiles with his father’s hesitant smile
And speaks with his voice.

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In order to celebrate Australia Day and Waitangi Day (John is a shareholder in both these noble enterprises) we've decided to have a sale which begins on the former and concludes on the latter. It works like this: 
 

50% off all Fred Dagg

        
 

30% off all Clarke & Dawe

            

 

25% off The Games

    

Between 20% and 60% off everything else 

        

         


Please Note: stock is limited.
Sale applies during sale period only while stock lasts.

All items will come personally signed by John.
If you have specific requests or if you would like John to dedicate your product to someone in particular, make a note of this in the special requests box.

Reduced shipping to New Zealand and internationally. Flat rate $10 anywhere in Australia. 

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Until Clarke & Dawe return to ABC TV on Feb 9th, we’re keeping ourselves occupied every Thursday by posting something from the archives (follow us on Twitter for updates). Previous articles can be found here.

On Tuesdays we’re putting up letters from the school. These address a range of issues and it is hoped the matters raised are being taken seriously. We ignore them at our peril.

If we can get John out of the surf there should be a new set of Quiz Answers in The Age on Saturday.

In other news, you can join our new mailing list here, the Fred Dagg anthology is available as a digital download here (pay what you feel like paying). Everything else remains on sale in the shop.

Happy new year.

Photo taken in 1975 and found during structural alterations to the office.

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From time to time we will send out news on various appearances, products and sales (4 to 5 a year at the most).

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