“Sod the wine, I want to suck on the writing. This man White is an instinctive writer, bloody rare to find one who actually pulls it off, as in still gets a meaning across with concision. Sharp arbitrage of speed and risk, closest thing I can think of to Cicero’s ‘motus continuum animi.’
Probably takes a drink or two to connect like that: he literally paints his senses on the page.”
DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little, Ludmila’s Broken English, Lights Out In Wonderland)
Winner: Booker prize; Whitbread prize; Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman prize; James Joyce Award from the Literary & Historical Society of University College Dublin
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“the Rimbaud of McLaren Vale … bandanna on head, standing on a table outside the Victory Hotel, shooting geology at the wine-sluggers with all the fiery conviction of a temperance preacher in the goldfields” Andrew Jefford
Just be wary of Philip White, the Charles Bukowski of Australian wine writers and for my money one of the best in the business, who recently described a wine as “a stark raving crazy transvestite musk ox with bad breath and a dirty botty” Nick Ryan Men’s Style
“forthright, opinionated, aggressive - sometimes just plain wrong” The Key Report
“Australian wine has never seen, and will never again likely see, a writer as great” Campbell Mattinson
“BONKERS!” Fiona Beckett THE GUARDIAN
“On form, Philip is Australian wine’s Kerouac, Hemingway and la Montaigne rolled into one.”
MAX ALLEN - THE AUSTRALIAN
6 comments:
Beautiful coverage of Robert Hannaford - Open Studio at Goolwa thankyou!
Leah Grace
That's Arthur The Wharfie!
How's Robert's cancer Philip?
He's happy and positive. He has obvious difficulty speaking, but he does it all with dignity and clarity, does dear Alfie. He looks strong and fit. It was really cool to see him after so many years. The exhibition's a must: I shed a lot of tears at his incredible skill and open, honest eye. Nobody sees the weight and thickness of light, or its quality, like Alfie does. Go to the show; buy the book!
Being able to show us the weight thickness and quality of light is an extraordinary achievement.
Simon
Yes, agreed. His eye is frank and eternally curious. The drawings from his childhood show hints of it; then the influence of Heysen and Hele begin to emerge, and he just seems to have sucked it all in and run with it. His appreciation and recording of light and the very air we breathe - the carrier of this strange glowing element - simply grows with his years. As a journalist, I envy his astonishing ability to report with such brevity of emotion, somehow mixed with an uncanny ability to see land, air, light and living things, and the simple matters of our world and our lives, with such honest and unintrusive love. It is an honour to know him, and see these wonders.
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