"My Brother Jaz" Gideon Haigh (Melbourne University Press, 2024)
Peter Langston | September 06, 2024
Those of you who love to read about cricket will no doubt share the view that Australia has always been blessed with fine, thoughtful writers to rival the best from anywhere in the cricket universe - Fingleton and Knox come to mind and certainly the great philosophical writers like Roebuck and the prolific wordsmith Gideon Haigh.
The latter writes as though his daily bodily functions depend for their recurrent working order on the constant production of clever analysis, the erudite selection of an ever better word or phrase and the pondering of challenging moral questions.
Haigh has this year taken the recurring scab from the death of his brother - in a car accident in his later teens - writing with an acrid honesty and personal revelation he has assiduously avoided through his entire career.
This Conversation with Sarah Kanowski has all of the usually careful construction of Haigh speaking or writing but the feelings are something new and at times unsettling. The book is “My Brother Jazz” (Melbourne University Press 2024).
