The Wire

In his Calibre award winning essay The Great Red Whale, Michael Winkler describes his search for belonging in the midst of life with mental illness. Born in “a red-dirt town” he tells how how Uluru in the centre of Australia and the 19^th Century novel Moby Dick, offer respite for a mind that, “at its most untrammelled, could split each second into a hundred parts, and be aware of an infinitude of time in each… The terror of existing without a secure foothold.”