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Bernard Cohen Bernard Cohen i(A13867 works by)
Born: Established: 1963 Michigan,
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United States of America (USA),
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Americas,
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Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: ca. 1964
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1 The Doppler Effect Bernard Cohen , 2021 single work prose
— Appears in: 40 : Forty Years of the UTS Writers' Anthology 2021; (p. 26-29)
1 We Have Seen the Young Women Dancing Bernard Cohen , 2021 single work short story
— Appears in: Island , no. 161 2021; (p. 50-53)
1 Polyphony Bernard Cohen , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January / February no. 408 2019; (p. 33)

'Virtuosic performance text, palimpsest of a nineteenth-century Russian folktale, and a merciless and often very funny sectioning of the self, Ania Walwicz’s horse enacts what it names: ‘Polyphony as identity’. The narrative more or less follows the story of The Little Humpbacked Horse by Piotr Jerszow, in which a magical horse repeatedly helps Ivan, a foolish young farm boy, towards his fairy-tale ending. In Walwicz’s wilder and more fragmentary retelling, the protagonist’s identity comprises both horse and rider, tsar and groom, tyrant and the tyrannised, abused child and academic, the self of fiction and the ‘autobiographical’. The effect is almost Cubist, in that all of these facets are visible without becoming a settled, realist literary image.'  (Introduction)

1 What I’m Reading Bernard Cohen , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2018;
1 Down and Across Bernard Cohen , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , November vol. 6 no. 2 2018; (p. 63-64)
1 y separately published work icon When I Saw the Animal Bernard Cohen , Brisbane : University of Queensland Press , 2018 14401578 2018 selected work short story

"Parked in by furious rich people, mid-divorce, a man misses his lunchtime gambling session. All the girls named Ella form a diagonal across the teacher’s new classroom. Diseased cattle burn in fields around the country – it is a cameraman’s role to frame the images for TV. A swagman jumps into a billabong, or was he pushed?

"Bernard Cohen’s stories are filled with incisive perspectives, captivating wit and dark, sharp humour."

1 In the Time It Takes to Finish a Sandwich, We Could Build Worlds Bernard Cohen , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 77 no. 3 2018;
1 Traffic Calming i "He pulls out to the wrong", Bernard Cohen , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 84 2018;
1 6 y separately published work icon The Antibiography of Robert F. Menzies Bernard Cohen , Sydney South : HarperCollins Australia , 2013 6164448 2013 single work novel satire (taught in 2 units)

'A witty, irreverent and intelligent satire of Australian politics.

'A soon-to-be-elected Australian prime minister invokes the spirit of Sir Robert Menzies and astonishingly, the Great Man rises from the grave. But in Canberra, amongst the nation′s leaders, the revived Menzies is rarely listened to and hardly visible. Increasingly discontented with his role as mere nostalgic symbol, Menzies escapes from Canberra. He runs westward, becoming larger and more powerful as he runs.

'This, perhaps the most significant untold story in Australian political history, lands in the lap of the Antibiographer, whose contracted book on Menzies is years behind schedule. Could this be the break the Antibiographer needs to redeem his career? Will he be able to track down the Menziean colossus and save his book and reputation? And can the out-of-control Menzies ever be contained?

'The Antibiography of Robert F. Menzies is playful, lyrical, surprisingly poignant and very funny.' (Publisher's blurb)

1 Storm i "Four hundred postgrads in June", Bernard Cohen , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: Four W , no. 19 2008; (p. 41)
1 War Against the Ungulates Bernard Cohen , 2008 single work short story
— Appears in: Heat , no. 17 (New Series) 2008; (p. 159-168) The Best Australian Stories 2008 2008; (p. 224-233)
1 Hunter Is Writing... Bernard Cohen , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Author , December vol. 39 no. 3 2007; (p. 20-24)
Bernard Cohen presents 'insights from his writing workshops for children including the "Authors' in Priority Schools Program", an ASA initiative supported by the Federal Department of Education, Science and Technology and the NSW Department of Education and Training'.
1 Spanish Conquest Bernard Cohen , 2004 single work autobiography travel
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28 December 2004; (p. 19)
1 3 y separately published work icon Paul Needs Specs Bernard Cohen , Geoff Kelly (illustrator), Camberwell : Viking , 2003 Z1004268 2003 single work picture book children's 'As Sally's little brother Paul gets clumsier and clumsier, she suspects he may need to get glasses. Together they visit the eye doctor where Paul discovers a whole new world.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 Get Back Matthew Reilly , Sonya Hartnett , Bernard Cohen , Geraldine Brooks , 2003 extract essay (Another Time Another Place)
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 3 January 2003; (p. 25)
1 5 y separately published work icon Speedfactory Bernard Cohen , John Kinsella , McKenzie Wark , Terri-Ann White , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2002 Z971097 2002 anthology short story

'Speed Factory is experimental writing at its most inventive - a game of words played with a partner and a set of rules, each player developing a thread, or two, of another's ideas. The result is an exhilarating, playful, and sometimes contradictory reflection on the speed of contemporary life.'(Publication summary)

1 Orangeade Bernard Cohen , 2002 single work short story
— Appears in: The Best Australian Stories 2002 2002; (p. 275-286)
1 Another Time Another Place Maureen McCarthy , Geraldine Brooks , Bernard Cohen , Gary Crew , Boori Pryor , Dorothy Porter , Tim Flannery , Matthew Reilly , Sonya Hartnett , Cecilia Dart-Thornton , Robyn Annear , 2002 single work essay
— Appears in: The Age , 28 December 2002; (p. 1, 4)
Collection of 13 short essays, 11 of which are written by prominent literary Australians. They were responding to the question if they could time travel, where would they go? Their answers include to the The Last Supper, to be present to prevent the conception of Adolf Hitler and to go back 160 million years to see dinosaurs.
1 8 y separately published work icon Hardly Beach Weather Bernard Cohen , Pymble : Flamingo , 2002 Z963708 2002 single work novel travel 'Ex-boyfriend Jack drives his ex-girlfriend the 1400 kilometres from Sydney to Adelaide in a small car. Maria is going to Adelaide to meet up with her new boyfriend. Jack offers her a lift because their former love relationship is now improperly defined.

Hardly Beach Weather is a road novel of unremitting Australianness: the sheep in the tuckerbag, a lone woman watching for snakes, mutual misinterpretations of city and bush.

Along the way, Jack and Maria are assaulted by stories of love and heartbreak told by strangers in every country town, by shopkeepers, drinkers, hitchhikers; these are tales which bust through motel walls, interrupt the radio cricket and endlessly remind Jack of his and Maria′s failures and shortcomings.

Despite all evidence, Jack maintains hope - and Maria is very, very patient.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 Purpose, Unfulfilled i "The protagonist-everyman journeyed a man-made way", Bernard Cohen , 2002 single work poetry
— Appears in: Heat , no. 3 (New Series) 2002; (p. 218)
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