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Family Affair,
single work
column
(p. 6)
'Nora Heysen struggled to emerge from her father Hans’s creative shadow, writes Anne Loxley'
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Natural Selection,
single work
review
— Review of Griffith Review no. 63 January 2019 periodical issue ;(p. 18)'A wide range of scientists, farmers and writers argue we each should do something to protect the world that sustains us all, even if others don’t, writes Geordie Williamson' (Introduction)
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The Boy Pulled through at Last,
single work
review
— Review of A Season on Earth 2019 single work novel ;(p. 20)'Gerald Murnane’s old/new novel puts him in the company of James Joyce, writes James Ley' (Introduction)
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Glimmer of Hope in the Realm of Forgone Opportunities,
single work
review
— Review of Islands 2019 single work novel ;(p. 20)'The body becomes an island in Peggy Frew’s third novel, one submerged beneath the weight of grief and unhappiness.' (Introduction)
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Inelegant Dissent and Whispers of Wisdom,
single work
review
— Review of Green Shadows and Other Poems 2019 selected work poetry ;(p. 21)'What an odd thing it is that Gerald Murnane, the great Australian minimalist who modulates the monotonies of his flawless sentences the way Rothko modulates his shades of colour, the 80-year-old Australian writer touted as an outsider (but less so now) for the Nobel Prize in Literature, should produce such a strange yet revealing book of poems.' (Introduction)
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That Sinking Feeling as the Tide Rolls In,
single work
review
— Review of The Glad Shout 2019 single work novel ;(p. 25)'You can gauge the success of a genre when its shorthand enters the zeitgeist. For a few years now, “cli-fi” has been growing as writers harness the devastating possibilities of climate change as a backbone for their fiction.' (Introduction)
