13 Feb 2019 |
Michael McGirr
Remembering the good times and offering your company (community) to a friend.
09 Nov 2018 |
Michael McGirr
It's comforting that Parliament starts with what is, effectively, a love letter.
18 Sep 2018 |
Michael McGirr
Dear Father Christmas,
We are writing to let you know that your application for asylum in Australia has been denied. You will not be permitted to enter Australian airspace on December 24. The relevant matters are dealt with below. We are taking a bi-partisan approach to this matter.
21 Aug 2018 |
Michael McGirr
Dear Bruce Springsteen, Many of your songs tell stories of struggling people and celebrate their dignity.
22 May 2018 |
Michael McGirr
Dear Dr Frankenstein, Congratulations on your 200th birthday. We all know that fictional characters can outlive real ones but, even so, two hundred years is a pretty good effort.
01 Nov 2017 |
Michael McGirr
Dear Liam, I am writing to thank you for your contribution to our class this year. Most of the time you sat down the back but I could tell you were listening. Even when you were talking to the person next to you, you were waiting to hear something you could sink your teeth into. You loved biting back.
23 May 2017 |
Michael McGirr
Dear Dorothy Day, I can remember the day at the end of November in 1980 when you died. You were 83 years of age and living in New York; I was a callow youth of 18 helping homeless people in the inner parts of Melbourne and trying to find my way in the world. Actually, the homeless were the ones helping me but it took ages to realise that.
01 Feb 2017 |
Michael McGirr
Dear Bob Dylan, I respond to much in the way of correspondence. Even the committee that awarded you the Nobel Prize for Literature didn’t hear much back from you and a letter from me is hardly in the same category.
31 Oct 2016 |
Michael McGirr
Dear Mother Cabrini, I am writing to you with an idea for a TV mini series. It is called Saint and the City and will be based around your life.
31 May 2016 |
Michael McGirr
Dear David Rudisha,
I am writing to wish you well for the Olympic Games coming up shortly in Rio. It hardly seems four years since you blitzed the field to win the 800m men’s final in London, 2012. That event has been hailed as one of the great races of history. Every competitor broke the previous world record.
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