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Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 29-30 July 2006 of The Australian est. 1964 The Weekend Australian
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2006 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
War : The Pilot, Malta, 1942i"He measures the time between words", Jo Dey , single work poetry (p. 2) Section: Review
The Face : Mark Ragg : Doctor, Journalist, Patient, Novelist, Rosemary Neill , single work biography (p. 3) Section: Review
Other Voices, Tony Maniaty , single work review
— Review of Vale Byron Bay Wayne Grogan , 2006 single work novel ; Eagle on the Hill Maggie Shannon , 2006 single work novel ; (p. 8) Section: Review
A Place in the Imagination, Debra Adelaide , single work review
— Review of Tuvalu Andrew O'Connor , 2006 single work novel ; (p. 8) Section: Review
Festival Hit Is Written in the Stars, Corrie Perkin , single work column (p. 8)
Note: port. (William McInnes)
The Life Poetic, John Kinsella , extract autobiography (p. 8-9) Section: Review
Subplot: It's a War!, John Kinsella , extract autobiography
Kinsella argues that the 'poetry wars' that raged in the world of Australian poetry from the late 1960s into the early twenty-first century were not so much polarised along stylistic lines as geographic ones. He suggests the fault line was a Sydney-Melbourne divide.
 (p. 9) Section: Review
Kids' Lit, Jodie Minus , single work review
— Review of Little Wing Joanne Horniman , 2006 single work novel ; Gravity Scot Gardner , 2006 single work novel ; The Birthmark Beth Montgomery , 2006 single work novel ; Queenie : One Elephant's Story Corinne Fenton , 2006 single work picture book ; (p. 14) Section: Review
Writers of the Storm, Corrie Perkin , single work column (p. 24)
Between the Covers, Graeme Blundell , single work criticism
Graeme Blundell discusses the origins and popularity of book clubs in the context of the launch of Jennifer Byrne's ABC Televsion programme, First Tuesday Book Club.
 (p. 24-25) Section: Review
Literally in a Stew, Imre Salusinszky , single work column
In light of the rejection by most publishers' readers of a section of Patrick White's The Eye of the Storm (see 'Why Bother with Patrick White'), Salusinszky puts the case for a re-think on the teaching of Australian literature in schools and universities.
 (p. 40) Section: Review
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