Alister Kershaw

Alister Kershaw was a member of the lively crew of poets, painters, musicians and marginal madcaps who made up Melbourne&apos;s artistic avant-garde in the Thirties and Forties. In this book he recalls some of the people he knew in those distant heydays.<br /> <br />Here are Albert Tucker and James Gleeson, who were savaged by Kershaw in a notorious satirical poem but who later became good friends of his. The youthful Max Harris is depicted with affectionate irony although his fellow...