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* Contents derived from the 2019 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- July in Fiction, single work review
- Towards Poetic Address : Anne Carson Slagi"I can’t get to sleep. Anne Carson is in my head. I think I’m talking to her in", single work poetry
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Offshore/Ashore : Australia’s Refugee Writing,
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'In Richard Flanagan’s foreword to No Friend But the Mountains, he states that Behrouz Boochani is ‘a great Australian writer’. The notion of what constitutes Australian literature has always been a bit nebulous. At first blush, it seems easy to define: writing by Australians. But then, who are these Australians? And by what definition could Boochani be considered an Australian writer? As Keyvan Allahyari and Paul Rae wrote in The Conversation, ‘If a non-citizen who has never set foot on mainland Australia can win [the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award], who counts as an Australian author?’' (Introduction)
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