John Clarke: an unsurpassed craftsman of the Australasian voice
- Written by Patrick Stokes, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Deakin University
There are some writers whose voice, by sheer accident of timing in your life, reach far deeper into your brain than the specifics of what they wrote.
For me, it was the satirist and actor John Clarke, who died suddenly on Sunday while hiking in the Grampians, aged 68. I never met Clarke. But he taught me a great deal about the English language and...






