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Australian Book Review acknowledges the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners of the land on which it is situated in Southbank, Victoria, and pays respect to the Elders, past and present. This work was developed in a Creative Spaces managed studio. Creative Spaces is a program of Arts Melbourne at the City of Melbourne. THE 2021 CALIBRE ESSAY PRIZE AN INTERVIEW WITH KENT MACCARTER In the waning days of the Italian lira, I accidentally left a new velvet jacket – pockets stuffed with an early mobile and gobs of cash – in a café in Florence, en route to pay school tuition. 1999. Gone. That forced me to return to Santa Fe, then to Chicago where a friend shoehorned me into a role at the University of Chicago Press. There I dabbled in poetry with Thom Gunn and Mark 2021 ABR ELIZABETH JOLLEY SHORT STORY PRIZE Entries are currently open for the 2021 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. The Jolley Prize is worth a total of AU$12,500 – first place will receive $6,000, second TRUTH-TELLING: HISTORY, SOVEREIGNTY AND THE ULURU In the wake of the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart, truth-telling has gained new currency in Australia. The Statement called for a ‘Makarrata Commission to supervise a process of agreement-making between governments and First Nations and truth-telling about our history’. Although yet to be fleshed out in any detail, the renewed call for truth-telling has been greeted with enthusiasm THE CLIMATE CURE BY TIM FLANNERY The Climate Cure should have been on every Australian federal politician’s Christmas list. As Tim Flannery explains, our federal politicians, stymied by Coalition climate change denialists and the fossil fuel lobby, have failed the climate challenge of the past two decades, so that we have ‘sleepwalked deep into the world that exists just seconds before the climate clock strikes a THE GENTLE ART OF 'SHTISEL' It opens with a dream. A dream that is, as dreams often are, awash in surrealism, disorientation, longing, desire. Dreams, both waking and sleeping, are integral to Shtisel’s composition, an Israeli television saga that speaks of the lives of the Shtisels, a family living in the midst of a Haredi (literally ‘those who tremble’, otherwise known as Ultra-Orthodox) community. JACK CAMERON STANTON REVIEWS 'CAR CRASH' BY LECH BLAINEAUTHOR: JACKCAMERON STANTON
Young writers may turn to the page for catharsis – for writing-as-therapy – but that’s not why we read them. The ageist view, that a writer mustn’t pen their memoirs until they are older and learned, neglects the breadth of excellent work by precocious writers who have a story to tell. Naïveté and inexperience can enchant, sometimes more so than brilliant craftsmanship or CHRIS FLYNN REVIEWS 'MAYBE THE HORSE WILL TALK' BY ELLIOT E lliot Perlman’s fourth novel is tentatively billed as a corporate satire and has a striking opening line: ‘I am absolutely terrified of losing a job I absolutely hate.’ The man in this all-too-familiar predicament is Stephen Maserov, a former English teacher turned lawyer. Maserov is a lowly second year in the Terry Gilliam-esque law firm Freely Savage Carter Blanche, which, apart from AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEWSUBSCRIBE TO ABRGERMAINE GREERCALIBRE ESSAYSABOUT AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEWCHRISTOS TSIOLKAS Australian Book Review (ABR) is Australia's leading arts and literary review. Created in 1961, and now based in Melbourne, ABR publishes reviews, essays, commentaries and creative writing.ONLINE LOGIN
Australian Book Review acknowledges the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners of the land on which it is situated in Southbank, Victoria, and pays respect to the Elders, past and present. This work was developed in a Creative Spaces managed studio. Creative Spaces is a program of Arts Melbourne at the City of Melbourne. THE 2021 CALIBRE ESSAY PRIZE AN INTERVIEW WITH KENT MACCARTER In the waning days of the Italian lira, I accidentally left a new velvet jacket – pockets stuffed with an early mobile and gobs of cash – in a café in Florence, en route to pay school tuition. 1999. Gone. That forced me to return to Santa Fe, then to Chicago where a friend shoehorned me into a role at the University of Chicago Press. There I dabbled in poetry with Thom Gunn and Mark 2021 ABR ELIZABETH JOLLEY SHORT STORY PRIZE Entries are currently open for the 2021 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. The Jolley Prize is worth a total of AU$12,500 – first place will receive $6,000, second TRUTH-TELLING: HISTORY, SOVEREIGNTY AND THE ULURU In the wake of the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart, truth-telling has gained new currency in Australia. The Statement called for a ‘Makarrata Commission to supervise a process of agreement-making between governments and First Nations and truth-telling about our history’. Although yet to be fleshed out in any detail, the renewed call for truth-telling has been greeted with enthusiasm THE CLIMATE CURE BY TIM FLANNERY The Climate Cure should have been on every Australian federal politician’s Christmas list. As Tim Flannery explains, our federal politicians, stymied by Coalition climate change denialists and the fossil fuel lobby, have failed the climate challenge of the past two decades, so that we have ‘sleepwalked deep into the world that exists just seconds before the climate clock strikes a THE GENTLE ART OF 'SHTISEL' It opens with a dream. A dream that is, as dreams often are, awash in surrealism, disorientation, longing, desire. Dreams, both waking and sleeping, are integral to Shtisel’s composition, an Israeli television saga that speaks of the lives of the Shtisels, a family living in the midst of a Haredi (literally ‘those who tremble’, otherwise known as Ultra-Orthodox) community. JACK CAMERON STANTON REVIEWS 'CAR CRASH' BY LECH BLAINEAUTHOR: JACKCAMERON STANTON
Young writers may turn to the page for catharsis – for writing-as-therapy – but that’s not why we read them. The ageist view, that a writer mustn’t pen their memoirs until they are older and learned, neglects the breadth of excellent work by precocious writers who have a story to tell. Naïveté and inexperience can enchant, sometimes more so than brilliant craftsmanship or CHRIS FLYNN REVIEWS 'MAYBE THE HORSE WILL TALK' BY ELLIOT E lliot Perlman’s fourth novel is tentatively billed as a corporate satire and has a striking opening line: ‘I am absolutely terrified of losing a job I absolutely hate.’ The man in this all-too-familiar predicament is Stephen Maserov, a former English teacher turned lawyer. Maserov is a lowly second year in the Terry Gilliam-esque law firm Freely Savage Carter Blanche, which, apart from 2022 PETER PORTER POETRY PRIZE Australian Book Review welcomes entries for the eighteenth Peter Porter Poetry Prize, which is open to all international poets from 15 July 2021.This year the Porter Prize is worth a total of AU$10,000 – with a first prize of $6,000. Entries must be an original single-authored poem of not more than 70 lines written in 2021 ABR ELIZABETH JOLLEY SHORT STORY PRIZE Entries are currently open for the 2021 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. The Jolley Prize is worth a total of AU$12,500 – first place will receive $6,000, second PAUL DALGARNO REVIEWS 'MY YEAR OF LIVING VULNERABLY: A Morton’s traumatised seven-year-old self is a ‘ghost in the machine’, one that, of its own accord, pulls various stress-response levers that have beleaguered his life. Loving that little boy anew, while attempting to leave him behind, becomes a delicate act of disentanglement. Morton writes: ‘I THE CALIBRE ESSAY PRIZE The Calibre Essay Prize. T he Calibre Essay Prize is one of the world’s leading prizes for a new essay and it is now worth a total of $7,500. The Calibre Essay Prize, then known as the Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay, was first presented in 2007 to Elisabeth Holdsworth for her essay ' An die Nachgeborenen: For Those Who ComeAfter ' as
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In the wake of the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart, truth-telling has gained new currency in Australia. The Statement called for a ‘Makarrata Commission to supervise a process of agreement-making between governments and First Nations and truth-telling about our history’. Although yet to be fleshed out in any detail, the renewed call for truth-telling has been greeted with enthusiasm by THE GENTLE ART OF 'SHTISEL' It opens with a dream. A dream that is, as dreams often are, awash in surrealism, disorientation, longing, desire. Dreams, both waking and sleeping, are integral to Shtisel’s composition, an Israeli television saga that speaks of the lives of the Shtisels, a family living in the midst of a Haredi (literally ‘those who tremble’, otherwise known as Ultra-Orthodox) community. LAURA ELIZABETH WOOLLETT REVIEWS 'STONE SKY GOLD MOUNTAIN Laura Elizabeth Woollett is the author of a short story collection, The Love of a Bad Man (Scribe, 2016), and two novels, Beautiful Revolutionary (Scribe, 2018) and The Newcomer (forthcoming Scribe, 2021).Beautiful Revolutionary was shortlisted for the 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and the ALS Gold Medal, while The Love of a Bad Man was shortlisted for the 2017 Victorian Premier’s ANNA MACDONALD REVIEWS 'THERE WAS STILL LOVE' BY FAVEL PARRETT Anna MacDonald is a Melbourne-based writer and bookseller. She is the author of a collection of essays, Between the Word and the World, and a novel, A Jealous Tide . There Was Still Love. by Favel Parrett. Hachette, $29.99 pb, 211 pp, 9780733630682. decrease font size Text increase font size. Twitter. PETER ROSE REVIEWS 'YELLOW NOTEBOOK: DIARIES, VOLUME I Peter Rose. Peter Rose is the Editor and CEO of Australian Book Review. His books include a family memoir, Rose Boys (2001), which won the National Biography Award in 2003. He has published two novels and six poetry collections, most recently The Subject of Feeling (UWA Publishing, 2015). Yellow Notebook: Diaries, Volume I, 1978–1987. READING AUSTRALIA: 'ROMULUS, MY FATHER' BY RAIMOND GAITA Reading Australia • 31 March 2015. I n a critical moment of reflection and pause, Romulus, My Father offers the reader a key to its interpretation. The author – philosopher Raimond Gaita – tells us that ‘Plato said that those who love and seek wisdom are clinging in recollection to things they once saw’. AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEWSUBSCRIBE TO ABRGERMAINE GREERCALIBRE ESSAYSABOUT AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEWCHRISTOS TSIOLKAS Australian Book Review (ABR) is Australia's leading arts and literary review. Created in 1961, and now based in Melbourne, ABR publishes reviews, essays, commentaries and creative writing.ONLINE LOGIN
Australian Book Review acknowledges the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners of the land on which it is situated in Southbank, Victoria, and pays respect to the Elders, past and present. This work was developed in a Creative Spaces managed studio. Creative Spaces is a program of Arts Melbourne at the City of Melbourne. AN INTERVIEW WITH KENT MACCARTER In the waning days of the Italian lira, I accidentally left a new velvet jacket – pockets stuffed with an early mobile and gobs of cash – in a café in Florence, en route to pay school tuition. 1999. Gone. That forced me to return to Santa Fe, then to Chicago where a friend shoehorned me into a role at the University of Chicago Press. There I dabbled in poetry with Thom Gunn and Mark THE 2021 CALIBRE ESSAY PRIZE 2021 ABR ELIZABETH JOLLEY SHORT STORY PRIZE Entries are currently open for the 2021 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. The Jolley Prize is worth a total of AU$12,500 – first place will receive $6,000, second THE CLIMATE CURE BY TIM FLANNERY The Climate Cure should have been on every Australian federal politician’s Christmas list. As Tim Flannery explains, our federal politicians, stymied by Coalition climate change denialists and the fossil fuel lobby, have failed the climate challenge of the past two decades, so that we have ‘sleepwalked deep into the world that exists just seconds before the climate clock strikes a TRUTH-TELLING: HISTORY, SOVEREIGNTY AND THE ULURU In the wake of the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart, truth-telling has gained new currency in Australia. The Statement called for a ‘Makarrata Commission to supervise a process of agreement-making between governments and First Nations and truth-telling about our history’. Although yet to be fleshed out in any detail, the renewed call for truth-telling has been greeted with enthusiasm by ANNA MACDONALD REVIEWS 'THERE WAS STILL LOVE' BY FAVEL PARRETT Anna MacDonald is a Melbourne-based writer and bookseller. She is the author of a collection of essays, Between the Word and the World, and a novel, A Jealous Tide . There Was Still Love. by Favel Parrett. Hachette, $29.99 pb, 211 pp, 9780733630682. decrease font size Text increase font size. Twitter. CHRIS FLYNN REVIEWS 'MAYBE THE HORSE WILL TALK' BY ELLIOT Maybe the Horse Will Talk. by Elliot Perlman. E lliot Perlman’s fourth novel is tentatively billed as a corporate satire and has a striking opening line: ‘I am absolutely terrified of losing a job I absolutely hate.’. The man in this all-too-familiar predicament is Stephen Maserov, a former English teacher turned lawyer. PETER ROSE REVIEWS 'YELLOW NOTEBOOK: DIARIES, VOLUME I Peter Rose. Peter Rose is the Editor and CEO of Australian Book Review. His books include a family memoir, Rose Boys (2001), which won the National Biography Award in 2003. He has published two novels and six poetry collections, most recently The Subject of Feeling (UWA Publishing, 2015). Yellow Notebook: Diaries, Volume I, 1978–1987. AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEWSUBSCRIBE TO ABRGERMAINE GREERCALIBRE ESSAYSABOUT AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEWCHRISTOS TSIOLKAS Australian Book Review (ABR) is Australia's leading arts and literary review. Created in 1961, and now based in Melbourne, ABR publishes reviews, essays, commentaries and creative writing.ONLINE LOGIN
Australian Book Review acknowledges the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners of the land on which it is situated in Southbank, Victoria, and pays respect to the Elders, past and present. This work was developed in a Creative Spaces managed studio. Creative Spaces is a program of Arts Melbourne at the City of Melbourne. AN INTERVIEW WITH KENT MACCARTER In the waning days of the Italian lira, I accidentally left a new velvet jacket – pockets stuffed with an early mobile and gobs of cash – in a café in Florence, en route to pay school tuition. 1999. Gone. That forced me to return to Santa Fe, then to Chicago where a friend shoehorned me into a role at the University of Chicago Press. There I dabbled in poetry with Thom Gunn and Mark THE 2021 CALIBRE ESSAY PRIZE 2021 ABR ELIZABETH JOLLEY SHORT STORY PRIZE Entries are currently open for the 2021 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. The Jolley Prize is worth a total of AU$12,500 – first place will receive $6,000, second THE CLIMATE CURE BY TIM FLANNERY The Climate Cure should have been on every Australian federal politician’s Christmas list. As Tim Flannery explains, our federal politicians, stymied by Coalition climate change denialists and the fossil fuel lobby, have failed the climate challenge of the past two decades, so that we have ‘sleepwalked deep into the world that exists just seconds before the climate clock strikes a TRUTH-TELLING: HISTORY, SOVEREIGNTY AND THE ULURU In the wake of the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart, truth-telling has gained new currency in Australia. The Statement called for a ‘Makarrata Commission to supervise a process of agreement-making between governments and First Nations and truth-telling about our history’. Although yet to be fleshed out in any detail, the renewed call for truth-telling has been greeted with enthusiasm by ANNA MACDONALD REVIEWS 'THERE WAS STILL LOVE' BY FAVEL PARRETT Anna MacDonald is a Melbourne-based writer and bookseller. She is the author of a collection of essays, Between the Word and the World, and a novel, A Jealous Tide . There Was Still Love. by Favel Parrett. Hachette, $29.99 pb, 211 pp, 9780733630682. decrease font size Text increase font size. Twitter. CHRIS FLYNN REVIEWS 'MAYBE THE HORSE WILL TALK' BY ELLIOT Maybe the Horse Will Talk. by Elliot Perlman. E lliot Perlman’s fourth novel is tentatively billed as a corporate satire and has a striking opening line: ‘I am absolutely terrified of losing a job I absolutely hate.’. The man in this all-too-familiar predicament is Stephen Maserov, a former English teacher turned lawyer. PETER ROSE REVIEWS 'YELLOW NOTEBOOK: DIARIES, VOLUME I Peter Rose. Peter Rose is the Editor and CEO of Australian Book Review. His books include a family memoir, Rose Boys (2001), which won the National Biography Award in 2003. He has published two novels and six poetry collections, most recently The Subject of Feeling (UWA Publishing, 2015). Yellow Notebook: Diaries, Volume I, 1978–1987. THE 2021 CALIBRE ESSAY PRIZE Entries have now closed for the 2021 Calibre Essay Prize. The Prize is open to all essayists writing in English. We seek essays of between 2,000 and 5,000 words on any subject. We welcome essays of all kinds: personal or political, literary or speculative, traditional or experimental. Founded in 2007, the Calibre Prize is one of theworld’s
2021 ABR ELIZABETH JOLLEY SHORT STORY PRIZE Entries are currently open for the 2021 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. The Jolley Prize is worth a total of AU$12,500 – first place will receive $6,000, second 2020 CALIBRE ESSAY PRIZE (WINNER): 'READING THE MESS The Calibre Essay Prize is one of the world's leading prizes for an original non-fiction essay. This year was the fourteenth time ABR has presented the prize, which is now worth a total of $7,500. The winner of this year's prize is Dr Yves Rees, whose essay is titled 'Reading the Mess Backwards'. Rees, who came out as transgender aged 31 TRUTH-TELLING: HISTORY, SOVEREIGNTY AND THE ULURU In the wake of the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart, truth-telling has gained new currency in Australia. The Statement called for a ‘Makarrata Commission to supervise a process of agreement-making between governments and First Nations and truth-telling about our history’. Although yet to be fleshed out in any detail, the renewed call for truth-telling has been greeted with enthusiasm by THE CALIBRE ESSAY PRIZE The Calibre Essay Prize. T he Calibre Essay Prize is one of the world’s leading prizes for a new essay and it is now worth a total of $7,500. The Calibre Essay Prize, then known as the Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay, was first presented in 2007 to Elisabeth Holdsworth for her essay ' An die Nachgeborenen: For Those Who ComeAfter ' as
RETURN TO ULURU BY MARK MCKENNA The distinguished historian Mark McKenna has written an elegant and hungry book about the pull of Uluru, that place of mysterious significance to Australians, black and white. Of course, in recent times, the Uluru Statement from the Heart – the heart that had a stake driven through it the moment it was entrusted to the most powerful whites in Canberra – is a complicated domain of passion JENNIFER GRIBBLE REVIEWS 'THE ARTFUL DICKENS: THE TRICKS ‘What is so good about Dickens’s novels?’ It is a question ‘oddly evaded by many who have written about him’, in John Mullan’s reckoning. ‘Gosh he is good – though so careless,’ Iris Murdoch wrote to Brigid Brophy in 1962. Many writers before and since have found Dickens not only improvisatory and self-indulgently digressive but also sentimental, melodramatic, and sermonising LAURA ELIZABETH WOOLLETT REVIEWS 'STONE SKY GOLD MOUNTAIN Laura Elizabeth Woollett is the author of a short story collection, The Love of a Bad Man (Scribe, 2016), and two novels, Beautiful Revolutionary (Scribe, 2018) and The Newcomer (forthcoming Scribe, 2021).Beautiful Revolutionary was shortlisted for the 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and the ALS Gold Medal, while The Love of a Bad Man was shortlisted for the 2017 Victorian Premier’s FRANCESCA SASNAITIS REVIEWS 'THE TIME OF OUR LIVES The Time of Our Lives: Growing older well. by Robert Dessaix. by Francesca Sasnaitis •. October 2020, no. 425. I n the garden of a hotel twenty minutes from Yogyakarta, a group of hopeful, middle-aged Westerners gyrate anxiously to the strains of LaBelle’s greatest hit. Unlike their young Balinese instructor, they are fighting alosing battle.
GEOFFREY BLAINEY REVIEWS 'THE BIGGEST ESTATE ON EARTH: HOW Geoffrey Blainey, a practising historian for some sixty years, has written on Australian and world history. Long attracted to museums, he was deputy chairman of the Whitlam government's Enquiry into Museums and National Collections in 1974–75. AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEWSUBSCRIBE TO ABRGERMAINE GREERCALIBRE ESSAYSABOUT AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEWCHRISTOS TSIOLKAS F or much of her career, Gwen Harwood (1920–95) was best known for her hoaxes, pseudonyms, and literary tricks. Most notorious was the so-called Bulletin hoax in 1961, but over the years she orchestrated a number of other raids on literary targets, mainly aimed at challenging the power of poetry editors and gatekeepers. For L’Affaire Bulletin (as she sometimes called it), she submitted toONLINE LOGIN
Australian Book Review acknowledges the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners of the land on which it is situated in Southbank, Victoria, and pays respect to the Elders, past and present. This work was developed in a Creative Spaces managed studio. Creative Spaces is a program of Arts Melbourne at the City of Melbourne. THE 2021 CALIBRE ESSAY PRIZE 2022 PETER PORTER POETRY PRIZE Australian Book Review welcomes entries for the eighteenth Peter Porter Poetry Prize, which is open to all international poets from 15 July 2021.This year the Porter Prize is worth a total of AU$10,000 – with a first prize of $6,000. Entries must be an original single-authored poem of not more than 70 lines written in ISSUE 432 | FT. HESSOM RAZAVI, DECLAN FRY, ILANA SNYDER ABR has added an eleventh issue in 2021 – at no extra cost to subscribers – brimming with commentary, review essays, and creative writing. Ilana Snyder contextualises the recent turmoil in Israel and Palestine; Hessom Razavi turns our attention to the plight of refugees detained by Australia; Declan Fry examines the writings of Stan Grant; James Boyce laments the state of salmon-farming RETURN TO ULURU BY MARK MCKENNA The distinguished historian Mark McKenna has written an elegant and hungry book about the pull of Uluru, that place of mysterious significance to Australians, black and white. Of course, in recent times, the Uluru Statement from the Heart – the heart that had a stake driven through it the moment it was entrusted to the most powerful whites in Canberra – is a complicated domain of passion AN INTERVIEW WITH KENT MACCARTER In the waning days of the Italian lira, I accidentally left a new velvet jacket – pockets stuffed with an early mobile and gobs of cash – in a café in Florence, en route to pay school tuition. 1999. Gone. That forced me to return to Santa Fe, then to Chicago where a friend shoehorned me into a role at the University of Chicago Press. There I dabbled in poetry with Thom Gunn and Mark THE CLIMATE CURE BY TIM FLANNERY The Climate Cure should have been on every Australian federal politician’s Christmas list. As Tim Flannery explains, our federal politicians, stymied by Coalition climate change denialists and the fossil fuel lobby, have failed the climate challenge of the past two decades, so that we have ‘sleepwalked deep into the world that exists just seconds before the climate clock strikes a ANNA MACDONALD REVIEWS 'THERE WAS STILL LOVE' BY FAVEL PARRETT Anna MacDonald is a Melbourne-based writer and bookseller. She is the author of a collection of essays, Between the Word and the World, and a novel, A Jealous Tide . There Was Still Love. by Favel Parrett. Hachette, $29.99 pb, 211 pp, 9780733630682. decrease font size Text increase font size. Twitter. CHRIS FLYNN REVIEWS 'MAYBE THE HORSE WILL TALK' BY ELLIOT Maybe the Horse Will Talk. by Elliot Perlman. E lliot Perlman’s fourth novel is tentatively billed as a corporate satire and has a striking opening line: ‘I am absolutely terrified of losing a job I absolutely hate.’. The man in this all-too-familiar predicament is Stephen Maserov, a former English teacher turned lawyer. AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEWSUBSCRIBE TO ABRGERMAINE GREERCALIBRE ESSAYSABOUT AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEWCHRISTOS TSIOLKAS F or much of her career, Gwen Harwood (1920–95) was best known for her hoaxes, pseudonyms, and literary tricks. Most notorious was the so-called Bulletin hoax in 1961, but over the years she orchestrated a number of other raids on literary targets, mainly aimed at challenging the power of poetry editors and gatekeepers. For L’Affaire Bulletin (as she sometimes called it), she submitted toONLINE LOGIN
Australian Book Review acknowledges the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners of the land on which it is situated in Southbank, Victoria, and pays respect to the Elders, past and present. This work was developed in a Creative Spaces managed studio. Creative Spaces is a program of Arts Melbourne at the City of Melbourne. THE 2021 CALIBRE ESSAY PRIZE 2022 PETER PORTER POETRY PRIZE Australian Book Review welcomes entries for the eighteenth Peter Porter Poetry Prize, which is open to all international poets from 15 July 2021.This year the Porter Prize is worth a total of AU$10,000 – with a first prize of $6,000. Entries must be an original single-authored poem of not more than 70 lines written in ISSUE 432 | FT. HESSOM RAZAVI, DECLAN FRY, ILANA SNYDER ABR has added an eleventh issue in 2021 – at no extra cost to subscribers – brimming with commentary, review essays, and creative writing. Ilana Snyder contextualises the recent turmoil in Israel and Palestine; Hessom Razavi turns our attention to the plight of refugees detained by Australia; Declan Fry examines the writings of Stan Grant; James Boyce laments the state of salmon-farming RETURN TO ULURU BY MARK MCKENNA The distinguished historian Mark McKenna has written an elegant and hungry book about the pull of Uluru, that place of mysterious significance to Australians, black and white. Of course, in recent times, the Uluru Statement from the Heart – the heart that had a stake driven through it the moment it was entrusted to the most powerful whites in Canberra – is a complicated domain of passion AN INTERVIEW WITH KENT MACCARTER In the waning days of the Italian lira, I accidentally left a new velvet jacket – pockets stuffed with an early mobile and gobs of cash – in a café in Florence, en route to pay school tuition. 1999. Gone. That forced me to return to Santa Fe, then to Chicago where a friend shoehorned me into a role at the University of Chicago Press. There I dabbled in poetry with Thom Gunn and Mark THE CLIMATE CURE BY TIM FLANNERY The Climate Cure should have been on every Australian federal politician’s Christmas list. As Tim Flannery explains, our federal politicians, stymied by Coalition climate change denialists and the fossil fuel lobby, have failed the climate challenge of the past two decades, so that we have ‘sleepwalked deep into the world that exists just seconds before the climate clock strikes a ANNA MACDONALD REVIEWS 'THERE WAS STILL LOVE' BY FAVEL PARRETT Anna MacDonald is a Melbourne-based writer and bookseller. She is the author of a collection of essays, Between the Word and the World, and a novel, A Jealous Tide . There Was Still Love. by Favel Parrett. Hachette, $29.99 pb, 211 pp, 9780733630682. decrease font size Text increase font size. Twitter. CHRIS FLYNN REVIEWS 'MAYBE THE HORSE WILL TALK' BY ELLIOT Maybe the Horse Will Talk. by Elliot Perlman. E lliot Perlman’s fourth novel is tentatively billed as a corporate satire and has a striking opening line: ‘I am absolutely terrified of losing a job I absolutely hate.’. The man in this all-too-familiar predicament is Stephen Maserov, a former English teacher turned lawyer.THE ABR PODCAST
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Australian Book Review acknowledges the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners of the land on which it is situated in Southbank, Victoria, and pays respect to the Elders, past and present. This work was developed in a Creative Spaces managed studio. Creative Spaces is a program of Arts Melbourne at the City of Melbourne. THE 2021 CALIBRE ESSAY PRIZE 2022 PETER PORTER POETRY PRIZE Australian Book Review welcomes entries for the eighteenth Peter Porter Poetry Prize, which is open to all international poets from 15 July 2021.This year the Porter Prize is worth a total of AU$10,000 – with a first prize of $6,000. Entries must be an original single-authored poem of not more than 70 lines written in RETURN TO ULURU BY MARK MCKENNA The distinguished historian Mark McKenna has written an elegant and hungry book about the pull of Uluru, that place of mysterious significance to Australians, black and white. Of course, in recent times, the Uluru Statement from the Heart – the heart that had a stake driven through it the moment it was entrusted to the most powerful whites in Canberra – is a complicated domain of passion AN INTERVIEW WITH KENT MACCARTER In the waning days of the Italian lira, I accidentally left a new velvet jacket – pockets stuffed with an early mobile and gobs of cash – in a café in Florence, en route to pay school tuition. 1999. Gone. That forced me to return to Santa Fe, then to Chicago where a friend shoehorned me into a role at the University of Chicago Press. There I dabbled in poetry with Thom Gunn and Mark THE CLIMATE CURE BY TIM FLANNERY The Climate Cure should have been on every Australian federal politician’s Christmas list. As Tim Flannery explains, our federal politicians, stymied by Coalition climate change denialists and the fossil fuel lobby, have failed the climate challenge of the past two decades, so that we have ‘sleepwalked deep into the world that exists just seconds before the climate clock strikes a ANNA MACDONALD REVIEWS 'THERE WAS STILL LOVE' BY FAVEL PARRETT Anna MacDonald is a Melbourne-based writer and bookseller. She is the author of a collection of essays, Between the Word and the World, and a novel, A Jealous Tide . There Was Still Love. by Favel Parrett. Hachette, $29.99 pb, 211 pp, 9780733630682. decrease font size Text increase font size. Twitter. CHRIS FLYNN REVIEWS 'MAYBE THE HORSE WILL TALK' BY ELLIOT Maybe the Horse Will Talk. by Elliot Perlman. E lliot Perlman’s fourth novel is tentatively billed as a corporate satire and has a striking opening line: ‘I am absolutely terrified of losing a job I absolutely hate.’. The man in this all-too-familiar predicament is Stephen Maserov, a former English teacher turned lawyer. PETER ROSE REVIEWS 'YELLOW NOTEBOOK: DIARIES, VOLUME I Peter Rose. Peter Rose is the Editor and CEO of Australian Book Review. His books include a family memoir, Rose Boys (2001), which won the National Biography Award in 2003. He has published two novels and six poetry collections, most recently The Subject of Feeling (UWA Publishing, 2015). Yellow Notebook: Diaries, Volume I, 1978–1987. AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEWSUBSCRIBE TO ABRGERMAINE GREERCALIBRE ESSAYSABOUT AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEWCHRISTOS TSIOLKAS Australian Book Review (ABR) is Australia's leading arts and literary review. Created in 1961, and now based in Melbourne, ABR publishes reviews, essays, commentaries and creative writing.ONLINE LOGIN
Australian Book Review acknowledges the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners of the land on which it is situated in Southbank, Victoria, and pays respect to the Elders, past and present. This work was developed in a Creative Spaces managed studio. Creative Spaces is a program of Arts Melbourne at the City of Melbourne. THE 2021 CALIBRE ESSAY PRIZE 2022 PETER PORTER POETRY PRIZE Australian Book Review welcomes entries for the eighteenth Peter Porter Poetry Prize, which is open to all international poets from 15 July 2021.This year the Porter Prize is worth a total of AU$10,000 – with a first prize of $6,000. Entries must be an original single-authored poem of not more than 70 lines written in RETURN TO ULURU BY MARK MCKENNA The distinguished historian Mark McKenna has written an elegant and hungry book about the pull of Uluru, that place of mysterious significance to Australians, black and white. Of course, in recent times, the Uluru Statement from the Heart – the heart that had a stake driven through it the moment it was entrusted to the most powerful whites in Canberra – is a complicated domain of passion AN INTERVIEW WITH KENT MACCARTER In the waning days of the Italian lira, I accidentally left a new velvet jacket – pockets stuffed with an early mobile and gobs of cash – in a café in Florence, en route to pay school tuition. 1999. Gone. That forced me to return to Santa Fe, then to Chicago where a friend shoehorned me into a role at the University of Chicago Press. There I dabbled in poetry with Thom Gunn and Mark THE CLIMATE CURE BY TIM FLANNERY The Climate Cure should have been on every Australian federal politician’s Christmas list. As Tim Flannery explains, our federal politicians, stymied by Coalition climate change denialists and the fossil fuel lobby, have failed the climate challenge of the past two decades, so that we have ‘sleepwalked deep into the world that exists just seconds before the climate clock strikes a ANNA MACDONALD REVIEWS 'THERE WAS STILL LOVE' BY FAVEL PARRETT Anna MacDonald is a Melbourne-based writer and bookseller. She is the author of a collection of essays, Between the Word and the World, and a novel, A Jealous Tide . There Was Still Love. by Favel Parrett. Hachette, $29.99 pb, 211 pp, 9780733630682. decrease font size Text increase font size. Twitter. CHRIS FLYNN REVIEWS 'MAYBE THE HORSE WILL TALK' BY ELLIOT Maybe the Horse Will Talk. by Elliot Perlman. E lliot Perlman’s fourth novel is tentatively billed as a corporate satire and has a striking opening line: ‘I am absolutely terrified of losing a job I absolutely hate.’. The man in this all-too-familiar predicament is Stephen Maserov, a former English teacher turned lawyer. PETER ROSE REVIEWS 'YELLOW NOTEBOOK: DIARIES, VOLUME I Peter Rose. Peter Rose is the Editor and CEO of Australian Book Review. His books include a family memoir, Rose Boys (2001), which won the National Biography Award in 2003. He has published two novels and six poetry collections, most recently The Subject of Feeling (UWA Publishing, 2015). Yellow Notebook: Diaries, Volume I, 1978–1987.ONLINE LOGIN
Australian Book Review acknowledges the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners of the land on which it is situated in Southbank, Victoria, and pays respect to the Elders, past and present. This work was developed in a Creative Spaces managed studio. Creative Spaces is a program of Arts Melbourne at the City of Melbourne. 2022 PETER PORTER POETRY PRIZE Australian Book Review welcomes entries for the eighteenth Peter Porter Poetry Prize, which is open to all international poets from 15 July 2021.This year the Porter Prize is worth a total of AU$10,000 – with a first prize of $6,000. Entries must be an original single-authored poem of not more than 70 lines written in 2021 ABR ELIZABETH JOLLEY SHORT STORY PRIZE Entries are currently open for the 2021 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. The Jolley Prize is worth a total of AU$12,500 – first place will receive $6,000, second RETURN TO ULURU BY MARK MCKENNA The distinguished historian Mark McKenna has written an elegant and hungry book about the pull of Uluru, that place of mysterious significance to Australians, black and white. Of course, in recent times, the Uluru Statement from the Heart – the heart that had a stake driven through it the moment it was entrusted to the most powerful whites in Canberra – is a complicated domain of passion TRUTH-TELLING: HISTORY, SOVEREIGNTY AND THE ULURU In the wake of the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart, truth-telling has gained new currency in Australia. The Statement called for a ‘Makarrata Commission to supervise a process of agreement-making between governments and First Nations and truth-telling about our history’. Although yet to be fleshed out in any detail, the renewed call for truth-telling has been greeted with enthusiasm by 2020 CALIBRE ESSAY PRIZE (WINNER): 'READING THE MESS The Calibre Essay Prize is one of the world's leading prizes for an original non-fiction essay. This year was the fourteenth time ABR has presented the prize, which is now worth a total of $7,500. The winner of this year's prize is Dr Yves Rees, whose essay is titled 'Reading the Mess Backwards'. Rees, who came out as transgender aged 31 LAURA ELIZABETH WOOLLETT REVIEWS 'STONE SKY GOLD MOUNTAIN Laura Elizabeth Woollett is the author of a short story collection, The Love of a Bad Man (Scribe, 2016), and two novels, Beautiful Revolutionary (Scribe, 2018) and The Newcomer (forthcoming Scribe, 2021).Beautiful Revolutionary was shortlisted for the 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and the ALS Gold Medal, while The Love of a Bad Man was shortlisted for the 2017 Victorian Premier’s JAMES LEY REVIEWS 'THE LIVING SEA OF WAKING DREAMS' BY The Living Sea of Waking Dreams begins, self-consciously, at the limits of language. Its opening pages are rendered in a prose style that is fragmented and contorted. Sentences break down, run into each other. Syntax is twisted into odd shapes that call into question the very possibility of meaning. Words seem to arrive pre-estranged by semantic satiation in a way that evokes Gertrude Stein or NICOLE ABADEE REVIEWS 'A TREACHEROUS COUNTRY' BY K.M. KRUIMINK Tasmanian writer K.M. Kruimink’s first novel, A Treacherous Country, a witty, cracking tale set in Van Diemen’s Land in the 1840s, has more than a hint of Dickens and Moby-Dick about it. It won The Australian/Vogel’s Literary award, established in 1980 for an unpublished manuscript by an author under thirty-five, which has launched the career of Kate Grenville and Tim Winton, among others. GEOFFREY BLAINEY REVIEWS 'THE BIGGEST ESTATE ON EARTH: HOW Geoffrey Blainey, a practising historian for some sixty years, has written on Australian and world history. Long attracted to museums, he was deputy chairman of the Whitlam government's Enquiry into Museums and National Collections in 1974–75.* Sign In
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LUDWIG HIRSCHFELD-MACK: MORE THAN A BAUHAUS ARTIST BY RESI SCHWARZBAUER WITH CHRIS BELLby Seumas Spark
With his founding of the Bauhaus in 1919, the German architect Walter Gropius proposed a radical reimagining of the arts and crafts. His manifesto outlined the principles for an institution that would unify architecture, art, and design, creating ‘a new guild of craftsmen, free of the divisive class pretensions that endeavoured to raise a prideful barrier between craftsmen and artists!’ At the heart of this stirring vision was a world in which creativity was directed to practical ends, where function was a fundamental element of creative endeavour. Gropius’s call was both inspiring and timely, and it found ready devotees. In a continent savaged by four years of war, there was urgent need for a new way. Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Oskar Schlemmer were a few of the many who made their way to the German city of Weimar to work with Gropius and to help realise hisvision.
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People seeking asylum are off trend. As the black and brown people on boats have stopped arriving on Australia’s shores, so has our interest in them waned. In commemoration, a boat-shaped trophy sits in Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s office, inscribed with the words ‘I Stopped These’. Today, Australians seem preoccupied by the vaccine roll-out and allegations of rape in parliament. With a federal election on the horizon, people seeking asylum and refugees seem passé, a case of ‘out of sight, out of mind’.Biography
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by Jane Clark
Far too few Australian artists have been the subject of comprehensive biographies. Gary Werskey mentions Humphrey McQueen’s 784-page _Tom Roberts_ (1996) as an inspiration. Of course, there are art monographs and retrospective exhibition catalogues, but those are not life stories. With seventy-six colour plates and another fifty-one images in the text, Werskey’s thoroughly researched _Picturing a Nation_, set in rich historical and social context, is most welcome. As he observes, A.H. Fullwood’s life was ‘as full of pathos and plot turns as a three-volume Victorian novel’.Commentary
A PERIOD IN THE SHADE: PATRICK WHITE THIRTY YEARS ONby Martin Thomas
‘Your sense of permanence is perverted,’ said Holstius to Theodora Goodman in _The Aunt’s Story _(1948). ‘True permanence is a state of multiplication and division.’ The words are prescient, for Patrick White, who wrote them, has done rather well at dissolving into the impermanence of post-mortem obscurity. Perhaps unsurprisingly in view of the pandemic, the thirtieth anniversary of his death in 2020 left little imprint. No literary festival honoured the occasion, and no journal did a special issue. If White is looking down at us from some gumtree in the sky, he will be bathing in the lack of glory. He despised the hacks of the ‘Oz Lit’ industry as much as he loathed the ‘academic turds from Canberra’.Poetry
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Only one manuscript of _Beowulf_ has survived. It was in Sir Robert Cotton’s library. Cotton had been a student of that careful genius William Camden, who, through a lifetime’s work, formulated a different view of history: not the record of victory but the recollection of lost worlds and times. He and his fellow Antiquarians searched out fragments and ruins: Roman urns in the fields, Saxon burials under St Paul’s, a giant’s thigh-bone under a London cellar. They collected ancient manuscripts.Australian History
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