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1 The Laredo Mystery Barry Gillard , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , September vol. 67 no. 9 2023; (p. 91-92)
— Review of Che's Last Embrace Nicholas Hasluck , 2022 single work novel 'Pivotal to Che’s Last Embrace, Nicholas Hasluck’s fourteenth novel, is the marvellously elusive figure of Marvic Laredo. Descended from a group of Australians with utopian dreams who settled in Paraguay in the 1890s, Laredo, as one of the “boy soldiers” in the Chaco War between that country and Bolivia (1932 to 1935), had gained the moniker “el Australiano”. More importantly, Hasluck assigns him the role of propagandist and journalist for Che Guevara during the attempt to radicalise Latin America during the 1960s. Further to this, we are told that thirty years after Guevara’s ultimate ambush and subsequent death at the Bolivian village of La Higuera in 1967, Laredo had written a commemorative article devoted to the revolutionary leader. There also exists an unpublished draft of his account of Guevara’s last days and final hours. This is of particular interest since it suggests a revolutionary force weakened and divided. It also hints at betrayal.' (Introduction)
1 Leaves and Their Trees Barry Gillard , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Quadrant , June vol. 64 no. 6 2020; (p. 105-107)
1 The Hard Blue Edge Barry Gillard , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Quadrant , March vol. 64 no. 3 2020; (p. 108-109)
1 Themes of Social Significance Leap Out of Punchy, Finely Honed Verses Barry Gillard , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 30 March 2019; (p. 21)
— Review of Tilt Kate Lilley , 2018 selected work poetry

'It seemed unusual to Dorothy Hewett that a man of substance might knock back the offer of sex with her underage daughters. After all, at the federally subsidised bohemian Woollahra pad she shared with her fellow writer and husband Merv Lilley in the 1970s, there had been lots of takers.'  (Introduction)
1 Emma Morano i "Emma Morano, born in 1900, the year Puccini penned his shabby shocker Tosca, as Kerman", Barry Gillard , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 23 2018; (p. 9)
1 Three Ceramic Mallards i "Small steps wander along the polished floorboards", Barry Gillard , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 23 2018; (p. 9)
1 The Rats of Peshawar i "In the Land of Five Rivers, veiled remarks and fabrications", Barry Gillard , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Tremble : The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize 2016; (p. 23-24)
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