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John Stephenson John Stephenson i(A19625 works by) (a.k.a. Michael V Gilchrest-Adam Stephenson)
Born: Established: 1945 ;
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon Requiem for a Riot – The Battle of Brisbane John Stephenson , Tingalpa : Boolarong Press , 2020 19556457 2020 single work novel historical fiction

'November 1942. From battlefront New Guinea, war correspondent Pat Kinnane lands in Brisbane, General MacArthur’s Headquarters, and finds himself in another kind of war. Amid serious Allied tension, with his guide Kay Dalberg, a smart, political young woman, over nine days he liases with operational US military, befriends a desperate Kokoda veteran, edges into a complicated love triangle and is witness to the mysterious death of a soldier. The crucial personal issues of his visit reach their climax on the sultry evening of the 26th, American Thanksgiving Day, when the city’s discords boil over into the fatal street riot known to history as The Battle of Brisbane.'

(Source: publisher's blurb).
1 The Man Who Would Be Auden John Stephenson , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 79 no. 1 2019; (p. 27-31) 'Clem Christesen, a founding editor in the great story of Australia’s literary journals, was still puzzling about the encounter in the 1990s. A man in Royal Australian Air Force officer uniform had approached him in a Brisbane park late in wartime 1944, and introduced himself as the English poet W. H. Auden, on secondment to Australia from his residence in New York—a secondment, need it be said, that no-one else had ever heard of. The officer went on to discourse confidently to him about Auden’s poetry and literature in general.' (Introduction)
1 1 y separately published work icon The Baker's Alchemy John Stephenson , Blackheath : Brandl and Schlesinger , 2017 9910943 2017 single work novel historical fiction fantasy

'It’s Spring, 1870. The kindly Polish baker and widower, Ignacy Wadowski, cannot get his new young wife Jadwiga to make love with him. Ignacy asks a friendly Jewish healer who lives in the forest, for something to make him more attractive, but unexpectedly gets a potion that, while its effect lasts, makes him young again. Now courting Jadwiga as the youthful stranger Adalbert, Ignacy wins her love. The key moral dilemma is, while Ignacy is now enjoying his lawful wife, she’s enjoying a man she thinks isn’t her husband. Can one of them sin and the other not? The scheme begins to unravel when village gossip arises with sympathy for Ignacy - who’s being cuckolded by himself. The novel becomes an allegory, not just of all marriage and its difficulties, but of the expansion of consciousness available to a humble man, taking him into unsuspected realms of history, literature, national destiny and moral confrontation.' (Publication summary)
1 The Grammar of Gerald Murnane John Stephenson , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 76 no. 3 2017; (p. 6-7)

'In his rich and heartfelt Meanjin essay ‘In Praise of the Long Sentence’ (no. 1, 2016, pages 56–65), the novelist Gerald Murnane disclaims having received any thorough grounding in English grammar during his ‘patchy’ education across a number of schools. Nonetheless much of his essay is strong on, even you might say soaked in, grammatical analysis, particularly with regard to the structure of paragraph-long sentences. Unfortunately, despite Murnane’s confident presentation and his rightly esteemed fine literary record, his own sentence analysis occasionally invites challenge.' (Introduction)
1 A Richer Dust John Stephenson , 2015 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 75 no. 1 2015; (p. 101-102)
1 Poetic Free Spirit and Mother of Peter Lepus, Philosopher Rabbit Nicolette Stasko , John Stephenson , 2015 single work obituary (for J. S. Harry )
— Appears in: The Australian , 4 June 2015; (p. 14)
1 A Never Ending Hoax John Stephenson , 2008 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , Spring no. 21 2008; 'For many years after the Second World War, even into the 1970s, there were rumours circulating in Brisbane about a writer who might have been the real basis of the Ern Malley hoax story. His name - ironically, given the history of poets - was Jack Milton, and unfortunately he died not long before the infamous literary controversy erupted in 1944. A case of Queensland chauvinism? A then cultural province's desire to claim a role in a southern issue? Interestingly, Milton apparently had work dealings of significance with the American military, very prominent in Brisbane when the city provided Allied headquarters and was a national political centre.' (Author's introduction)
1 (Reading from) The Optimist John Stephenson , 1999 single work extract
— Appears in: Litlink One (CD 2): Reading by Writers from Across New South Wales 1999; (p. 21)
1 Image Upon Image John Stephenson , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 22-23 November 1997; (p. rev 29)
— Review of The Service of Clouds Delia Falconer , 1997 single work novel ; Matilde Waltzing Elise Valmorbida , 1997 single work novel
1 Unbearable Lightness John Stephenson , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18-19 October 1997; (p. rev 28)
— Review of Past Secrets M. A. Innes , 1997 single work novel ; The Man with the Diamond Bracelet Kathryn Lowe , 1997 single work novel
1 Getting the Hell Out John Stephenson , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14 September 1996; (p. 10s)
— Review of Heaven Where the Bachelors Sit Gerard Windsor , 1996 single work autobiography
1 12 y separately published work icon The Optimist John Stephenson , Melbourne : Text Publishing , 1996 Z376682 1996 single work novel historical fiction This is a novel by a first-time author, about a little-read, though highly influential, Australian poet: the blighted Christopher Brennan. Luke Slattery, 'High and Mighty', The Australian (7 September 1996).
1 Autumn Memories i "the leaves", John Stephenson , 1986 single work poetry
— Appears in: Friendly Street Poetry Reader : Ten 1986; (p. 101)
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