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The Captain and the Kings depart

3 October 2020

9:00 AM

3 October 2020

9:00 AM

The remarkable Giles Auty

When the wonderful Giles Auty, artist, critic and writer, so recently died, following on the death of that other intellectual giant, Western Australia’s writer and poet Hal Colebatch, I won’t have been alone with a feeling of overwhelming loss. ‘The Captains and the Kings depart…’ and we are very much the poorer for it.

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