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Artist Vincent Namatjira,
single work
column
'Even as he forges his own style, Vincent Namatjira celebrates the traditions of his great-grandfather Albert Namatjira. By Maddee Clark.'
- The Fly on the Wall, single work short story
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Chris Womersley The Diplomat,
single work
review
— Review of The Diplomat 2022 single work novel ;'“Hopefully the worst was behind me: detox, collecting Gertrude’s ashes, London, the twenty-four-hour flight, aeroplane food, customs, sniffer dogs. All I had to do now was survive the rest of my life. Which was no small order, of course.”'
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Claire G. Coleman Enclave,
single work
review
— Review of Enclave 2022 single work novel ;'John Clare was the great poet of “enclosure”. Unlike other major Romantic writers, he was of the peasantry – he lived through a period during which lands once held for the benefit of all were privatised in the name of “improving” agricultural productivity. Such commons were fenced off and patrolled against encroachment:
'There once were lanes in nature’s freedom dropt,
There once were paths that every valley wound –
Inclosure came, and every path was stopt;
Each tyrant fix’d his sign where paths were found,
To hint a trespass now who cross’d the ground…' (Introduction)
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Ben Lee,
single work
column
'Every time musician Ben Lee revisits Donald Barthelme’s short story ‘The Balloon’, it reminds him what art is for. By Kate Holden.'