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Plaque Wording:
Clive James born 1939.
In Sydney Harbour...the yachts will be racing on the crushed diamond water under a sky the texture of powdered sapphires. It would be churlish not to concede that the same abundance of natural blessings which gave us the energy to leave has every right to call us back. UNRELIABLE MEMOIRS (1980). Born in Sydney, Clive James settled in London in the early 1960s and became known as a TV and literary critic, poet, novelist and broadcaster.
NSW Ministry for the Arts Writers Walk
In Sydney Harbour...the yachts will be racing on the crushed diamond water under a sky the texture of powdered sapphires. It would be churlish not to concede that the same abundance of natural blessings which gave us the energy to leave has every right to call us back. UNRELIABLE MEMOIRS (1980). Born in Sydney, Clive James settled in London in the early 1960s and became known as a TV and literary critic, poet, novelist and broadcaster.
NSW Ministry for the Arts Writers Walk
Plaque Wording:
Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936
Sydney ... was populated by leisured multitudes all in their shirt-sleeves and all picknicking all the day. They volunteered that they were new and young, but would do wonderful things some day. SOMETHING OF MYSELF (1937) Rudyard Kipling visited Sydney in 1891. A prolific writer of verse and stories including the two volumes of The Jungle Book, he had a strong influence on Australian poets like 'Banjo' Paterson.
NSW Ministry for the Arts Writers Walk
Sydney ... was populated by leisured multitudes all in their shirt-sleeves and all picknicking all the day. They volunteered that they were new and young, but would do wonderful things some day. SOMETHING OF MYSELF (1937) Rudyard Kipling visited Sydney in 1891. A prolific writer of verse and stories including the two volumes of The Jungle Book, he had a strong influence on Australian poets like 'Banjo' Paterson.
NSW Ministry for the Arts Writers Walk
