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The debut novel of literary scholar Deborah Pike, The Players, is a warm, clear-eyed, funny and tender exploration of the …
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‘If You Cried, They Gave You Something to Cry About’: Graeme Dixon’s liberation songs When Noongar poet Graeme Dixon’s Holocaust …
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Koraly Dimitriadis, perhaps more than most poets, comes with a host of assumptions or ‘labels’—feminist, Cypriot-Australian writer, ‘a hysterical woman’: …
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Voices We Need to Listen To I first encountered Grace Yee’s poetry in 2021 when Alvin Pang and …
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The re-examination of our collective history: Monument and truth-telling
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Although this book’s speaker wishes ‘to rewrite the working class into history’ (‘Class Consciousness’, 1331) and its seventy-five poems are …
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Katia Ariel’s The Swift Dark Tide is a marvel. Shortlisted for the 2024 Stella Prize, it is a miracle of …
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Web Editor’s Note For any readers who aren’t aware: one of the editors of Hello Keanu!, Sarah Yeung, is Westerly …
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Fire and Brimstone When you first flick through the pages of Jerome Masamaka’s poetry collection Under the Tattered Roof, published …
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Kate Larsen’s Public. Open. Space. is a conversation as much as it is a poetry collection. Through a series of …
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It’s easy to see why Kirsty Iltners’ debut novel, Depth of Field, received the Dorothy Hewett Award. The Brisbane-based writer …
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No change but for this deepening, growing, till one day I should be journeyman and then at last master, like …
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Tamryn Bennett’s ICAROS is teeming with metaphors as well as literal descriptions of the Earth and its parts. You get …
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Steed, Laurie. Greater City Shadows. Crawley: UWA Publishing, 2024. RRP $29.99, 220pp, ISBN: 978176080269. Jen Bowden Husbands, fathers, friends, lovers, …
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Foong, Es. Clot and Marrow. Canberra: Recent Work Press, 2023. RRP: $19.95, 100pp, ISBN: 9780645651287. Gemma White Clot and Marrow …
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Hughes-d’Aeth, Tony. Netflicks: conceptual television in the streaming era. Crawley: UWA Publishing, 2024. RRP: $22.99, 120pp, ISBN 9781760802721. Jenny Hedley …
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Adam, Pip. Audition. Giramondo Publishing, 2023. RRP: $29.95, 224 pp, ISBN: 9781922725462. Julia Garas Audition, Pip Adam’s fourth novel, is …
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Rhook, Nadia. Second Fleet Baby. Fremantle: Fremantle Press, 2023. RRP: $29.99, 101pp, ISBN: 9781760991692. Veronica Lake The umbilical cord between a mother …
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Polain, Marcella. the seven-eight count of unstoppable sadness. Waratah, New South Wales: Puncher and Wattman, 2023. RRP: $27, 132 pp, ISBN: …
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Maling, Caitlin. Spore or Seed. Fremantle Press, 2023. RRP: $29.99, 128 pp, ISBN: 9781760992590. Ellie Fisher This child is bornto …
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Robert Wood Alexis Wright won both this year’s Stella Prize and the Miles Franklin Prize for her monumental novel Praiseworthy. …
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Hawke, Steve. The Brothers Wolfe. Fremantle Press, 2023. RRP: $29.99, 336pp, ISBN: 9781760992262. Fiona Wilkes Steve Hawke’s The Brothers Wolfe …
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Young, Emma. The Disorganisation of Celia Stone. Fremantle Press, 2023. RRP: $32.99, 352pp, ISBN: 9781760992040. Jen Bowden Readers are advised …
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Allen, Richard James. Text Messages from the Universe. Flying Island Books, 2023. RRP: $10, 113pp, ISBN: 9780645550313. Gemma White Richard …
