http://kateleaver.wordpress.com/2011/09/08/matt-king-astra-award-winning-actor-delightful-human-and-tv-spirit/mattking_austar_july/

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Imagine the quiet panic of knowing that disaster is about to strike. A cyclone is on its way, unstoppable rain is turning streets into rivers and tragedy is nigh. Coloured maps track the course of Mother Nature’s wrath on stoic computer screens. Scientific knowledge is heavy on the conscience. The burden of bad news to come is breathless and unfair. A nervous public waits.

Published in the AUSTAR Magazine, May 2011. (Published by Edge Custom Media, a truly delightful publishing company in Manly, NSW)

Read here: http://kateleaver.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/deadly_patterns_austar.pdf

The awesomeness of a Dylan Moran gig depends very much on his indulgent wine-guzzling….

The incredible artists known only as ‘Ando’ created the world’s largest acrylic painting – he spoke to me for a monthly column about art, published in the in-flight magazine OUTthere (Custom Magazine of the Year 2010).

See it here: ando_artspace

unsettling revelations of a long korean lunchtime

words kate leaver, photo ricor

Read it here: Loneliness_in_Seoul

Published in beautiful new British magazine Oh Comely, 2011. A memory from my stay in Seoul, South Korea – where I was working at the International Herald Tribune as a reporter, with the Australia Korea Foundation Fellowship in 2009.

Winner, University of Sydney Union Poetry Competition judged by Les Murray

Let’s have Channel Ten ratings to start

A sweet little logo-shaped tart

Grill contestants on high

They’ll probably cry

Serve hot with a garnish of heart

For the main, butter up Matty Preston

A bed of fried figs for him to rest on

Tuck his warm neck fat

Into a cravat

Now plate him and sprinkle some zest on

For desert it’s rivalry shortcake

Team red and team blue poised to bake

A piping hot show

From Masterchef dough

Judgment served after the ad break

The social awkwardness of the characters in The Big Bang Theory lacks charm and there’s something contrived and deeply unoriginal about the whole thing, writes Kate Leaver. “Mr Lorre, I urge you to cease and desist your sitcom monopoly and kindly step away from the television.”