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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Everywhere I Look
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'Every day I work on the edit of my book. I slog away, shifting chunks of material and moving them back, eating my salad in a daze, wondering if the linking passages I’ve written are leading me up a garden path, or are sentimental, or violate some unarticulated moral and technical code I’ve signed up to and feel trapped in or obliged to. The sheer bloody labour of writing. No one but another writer understands it—the heaving about of great boulders into a stable arrangement so that you can bound up them and plant your little flag at the very top.

'Spanning fifteen years of work, Helen Garner’s Everywhere I Look is a book full of unexpected moments—sudden shafts of light, piercing intuition, flashes of anger and laughter. It takes us from backstage at the ballet to the trial of a woman for the murder of her newborn baby. It moves effortlessly from the significance of moving house to the pleasure of re-reading Pride and Prejudice. 'Everywhere I Look includes Garner’s famous and controversial essay on the insults of age, her deeply moving tribute to her mother and extracts from her diaries, which have been part of her working life for as long as she has been a writer. Everywhere I Look glows with insight. It is filled with the wisdom of life. ' (Publication summary)

Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,:Text Publishing , 2016 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Whisper and Hum, Helen Garner , single work essay (p. 3-6)
Some Furniture, Helen Garner , single work essay (p. 7-10)
White Paint and Calico, Helen Garner , single work essay (p. 11-19)
Suburbia, Helen Garner , single work essay (p. 20-25)
Dear Mrs Dunkley, Helen Garner , extract correspondence (p. 29-33)
Eight Views of Tim Winton, Helen Garner , single work essay (p. 34-39)
Notes from a Brief Friendship, Helen Garner , single work essay (p. 40-46)
From Frogmore, Victoria, Helen Garner , single work essay (p. 47-57)
To My Dear Lift-Rat, Helen Garner , single work essay
Helen Garner remembers her friendship with Elizabeth Jolley with affection.
(p. 58-61)
While Not Writing a Book, Helen Garner , single work diary (p. 65-77)
Red Dog : A Mutiny, Helen Garner , single work essay (p. 78-81)
Funk Paradise, Helen Garner , single work essay (p. 82-89)
Dreams of Her Real Self, Helen Garner , single work autobiography (p. 90-105)
Before Whatever Else Happens, Helen Garner , single work essay (p. 106-118)
Punishing Karen, Helen Garner , single work essay (p. 121-125)
The Singular Rosie, Helen Garner , single work essay (p. 126-132)
The City at Night, Helen Garner , single work essay (p. 133-136)
The Man in the Dock, Helen Garner , single work essay (p. 137-140)
On Darkness, Helen Garner , single work essay (p. 141-152)
The Journey of the Stamp Animals, Helen Garner , single work autobiography (p. 155-157)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Text Publishing , 2017 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 240p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 29 March 2016
      ISBN: 9781925355369

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording. Read by Helen Garner.

Works about this Work

Prose That Makes Us "Laugh, Cry, Squirm and Gasp and Wonder" : Imagery, Memory, and Emotion in Helen Garner's Memoirs Merril Howie , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 33 no. 1 2019; (p. 22-39)
'Despite our awareness of the slipperiness of truth, literary memoirists continue to attract vast audiences, keen to immerse themselves in the skillful transformation of "experience into meaning and value" (Hampl, "Memory" 208). The rich tradition of the literary memoir differs from so-called pulp memoirs in relying less on narcissism and self-justification and more on storytelling, figurative language, dialogue, and "moments of imagination" (Bartkevicius 134). The result is the capacity to convey subjective experience, from both intellectual and emotional perspectives, thereby "plung[ing] the reader into the real heart of the matter" (Silverman 149). In effectively portraying the emotions that inevitably underpin the heart of the matter, literary memoirists can also have an emotional impact on us as readers, wherein we are invited to "laugh, cry, squirm and gasp and wonder" (Gaunt 22).' (Introduction)
The Energiser Jill Jones , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 381 2016; (p. 19)

— Review of Everywhere I Look Helen Garner , 2016 selected work essay
Helen Garner : Everywhere I Look Michelle McLaren , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , May 2016;

— Review of Everywhere I Look Helen Garner , 2016 selected work essay
Everywhere I Look ; Review Katharine England , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 7 May 2016; (p. 37)

— Review of Everywhere I Look Helen Garner , 2016 selected work essay
'Everywhere I Look is a collection of often personal essays and diary entries spanning more than 15 years. It includes some famous pieces: a moving tribute to Garner’s mother (Dreams of Her Real Self), a heartfelt farewell to Elizabeth Jolley hung gracefully upon a bad haircut (My dear Lift-Rat).'
Everywhere I Look, Helen Garner CR , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 26 March 2016;

— Review of Everywhere I Look Helen Garner , 2016 selected work essay
Conscientious Observer Peter Craven , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 26 March 2016; (p. 16)

— Review of Everywhere I Look Helen Garner , 2016 selected work essay

'Dealing with everything from the insults of age to child murder, Helen Garner’s latest essay collection is masterful, writes Peter Craven.'

Blessed with a Tough and Tender Touch Felicity Plunkett , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 9-10 April 2016; (p. 26)

— Review of Everywhere I Look Helen Garner , 2016 selected work essay
Felled by Grace Anna Goldsworthy , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Monthly , April no. 121 2016; (p. 48-50)

— Review of Everywhere I Look Helen Garner , 2016 selected work essay
Well Read : Garner's Personal Prose Invites Us In Katharine England , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 9 April 2016; (p. 36)

— Review of Everywhere I Look Helen Garner , 2016 selected work essay ; Maralinga's Long Shadow : Yvonne's Story Christobel Mattingley , 2016 single work biography
Everywhere I Look, Helen Garner CR , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 26 March 2016;

— Review of Everywhere I Look Helen Garner , 2016 selected work essay
Lunch With Helen Garner Jason Steger , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 9-10 April 2016; (p. 4)
Prose That Makes Us "Laugh, Cry, Squirm and Gasp and Wonder" : Imagery, Memory, and Emotion in Helen Garner's Memoirs Merril Howie , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 33 no. 1 2019; (p. 22-39)
'Despite our awareness of the slipperiness of truth, literary memoirists continue to attract vast audiences, keen to immerse themselves in the skillful transformation of "experience into meaning and value" (Hampl, "Memory" 208). The rich tradition of the literary memoir differs from so-called pulp memoirs in relying less on narcissism and self-justification and more on storytelling, figurative language, dialogue, and "moments of imagination" (Bartkevicius 134). The result is the capacity to convey subjective experience, from both intellectual and emotional perspectives, thereby "plung[ing] the reader into the real heart of the matter" (Silverman 149). In effectively portraying the emotions that inevitably underpin the heart of the matter, literary memoirists can also have an emotional impact on us as readers, wherein we are invited to "laugh, cry, squirm and gasp and wonder" (Gaunt 22).' (Introduction)
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