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- Maraudersi"Rain and dark fall over grey board walk", single work poetry (p. 41)
- Forest Childreni"Deep down in the middle of dusk and forest", single work poetry (p. 45)
- Melbourne in Winteri"There is of course the feeling", single work poetry (p. 46)
- Differencei"Would it be different if I weren’t reading", single work poetry (p. 47)
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Reconciliation with Place and Self,
single work
review
'The blurb on the back of Christos Tsiolkas’ impassioned personal meditation on the work of Patrick White claims that White ‘…recognised, through his own alienation and his profound love for his partner, that we were a migrant, mongrel nation forging our own culture and our own language’.' (Introduction)
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Film Is a Continent,
single work
review
'From Gothic mythologies and schlock-horror antics to ‘Where the Bloody Hell Are Ya?’ politicos, mismanaged Sunrise protests on Gold Coast beaches and Big Brother, Australian film and TV has only rarely been able to offer up anything other than self-effacing jokes. With this in mind, it is remarkable how deftly Alena Lodkina’s debut feature film, Strange Colours, manages to cut across this massive, permanent identity crisis of a country by bringing together two of its most prevalent motifs: resource exploitation and unrequited love. One reason for this could be that the film was not financed in Australia but in Italy. So if the answer is Australia, what was the question?' (Introduction)
- Beautiful Thingsi"someone must know", single work poetry (p. 54)