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'Leading Australian writers respond to the challenges of 2020, to create a vital cultural record of these extraordinary times.
'Writers, scientists, historians, journalists and commentators consider subjects as broad as culture and the arts, working as a doctor, travel, domestic violence, security, immigration, the death of a loved one, geopolitics, distance and zoom to ensure we never forget the experience of this pile-on of a year.
'Including original pieces from Lenore Taylor, Nyadol Nuon, Christos Tsiolkas, Melissa Lucashenko, Billy Griffiths, Jess Hill, Kim Scott, Brenda Walker, Jane Rawson, Omar Sakr, Richard McGregor, Jennifer Mills, Gabrielle Chan, John Birmingham, Tim Flannery, Rebecca Giggs, Kate Cole-Adams, George Megalogenis, James Bradley, Alison Croggan, Melanie Cheng, Kirsten Tranter, Tom Griffiths, Joelle Gergis and Delia Falconer.' (Publication summary)
Contents
- This Place of Sickness, single work essay
- The Year of Lethal Wonders, single work essay
- Black Flowers, single work essay
- Living in the Time of Coronavirus, single work essay
- Flames, single work essay
- The Great Unravelling, single work essay
- Drawing Breath, single work essay
- Dead Water, single work essay
- A Matter of Urgency, single work essay
- Don't Blink, single work essay
- Our Daily Bread, single work essay
- Falling, single work essay
- Call and Response, single work essay
- Friday the Thirteenth, single work essay
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The Music of the Virus : Sadness, Relief and Communal Consolation,
single work
essay
'We have a sense of what it means to live in disturbing times, to live under threat. We should not forget the many people who have known this all their lives.'
- Waiting for a Friend, single work essay
- Too Deadly, single work essay
- Trouble Breathing, single work essay
- A Long Shadow, single work essay
- The Ghost in the Machine, single work essay
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Other Formats
- Sound recording.
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Before the Rainstorm
2021
single work
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— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , March 2021;
— Review of Fire Flood Plague : Australian Writers Respond to 2020 2020 anthology essay'On the second day of 2020, my partner and I caught a train through the suburbs of Munich to Dachau, then a bus to the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site. It was bitterly cold, the morning air nipping our cheeks. Frost crunched beneath our feet and weak sunlight drifted through clouds. At the site, we passed beneath the grim words ‘Arbeit macht frei’, soldered onto the entrance gates (as they also were in Auschwitz and other concentration camps). We moved slowly through the rectangular buildings, reading squares of information about the inhumane treatment of the prisoners. By the time we emerged from the last building, we were weighed down with horror.' (Introduction)
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Once, Twice, Thrice : A Year of Lamentation
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January–February no. 428 2021; (p. 60)
— Review of Fire Flood Plague : Australian Writers Respond to 2020 2020 anthology essay
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Once, Twice, Thrice : A Year of Lamentation
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January–February no. 428 2021; (p. 60)
— Review of Fire Flood Plague : Australian Writers Respond to 2020 2020 anthology essay -
Before the Rainstorm
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , March 2021;
— Review of Fire Flood Plague : Australian Writers Respond to 2020 2020 anthology essay'On the second day of 2020, my partner and I caught a train through the suburbs of Munich to Dachau, then a bus to the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site. It was bitterly cold, the morning air nipping our cheeks. Frost crunched beneath our feet and weak sunlight drifted through clouds. At the site, we passed beneath the grim words ‘Arbeit macht frei’, soldered onto the entrance gates (as they also were in Auschwitz and other concentration camps). We moved slowly through the rectangular buildings, reading squares of information about the inhumane treatment of the prisoners. By the time we emerged from the last building, we were weighed down with horror.' (Introduction)
