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Dedication: For Gram and Pop
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Other Formats
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Lost in Space : Gold Coast Characters Wandering Home(less)
2020
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Queensland Review , December vol. 27 no. 2 2020; (p. 181-200) -
The Beach as (Hu)man Limit in Gold Coast Narrative Fiction
2018
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Queensland Review , June vol. 25 no. 1 2018; (p. 149-162)'Gold Coast beaches oscillate in the cultural imagination between everyday reality and a tourist's paradise of ‘sun, surf and sex’ (Winchester and Everett 2000: 59). While these narratives of selfhood and becoming, egalitarianism and sexual liberation punctuate the media, Gold Coast literary fictions instead reveal the beach as a site of danger, wholly personifying the unknown. Within Amy Barker's Omega Park, Melissa Lucashenko's Steam Pigs, Georgia Savage's The House Tibet and Matthew Condon's Usher and A Night at the Pink Poodle, the beach is a ‘masculine’ space for testing the limit of the coastline and one's own capacity for survival. This article undertakes a close textual analysis of these novels and surveys other Gold Coast fictions alongside spatial analysis of the Gold Coast coastline. These fictions suggest that the Gold Coast is not simply a holiday world or ‘Crime Capital’ in the cultural imagination, but a mythic space with violent memories, opening out onto an infinite horizon of conflict and estrangement.'
Source: Abstract.
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[Review] Omega Park
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 24 no. 1 2010; (p. 59)
— Review of Omega Park 2009 single work novel -
Omega Park
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: UQ Graduate Contact 2010; (p. 38)
— Review of Omega Park 2009 single work novel -
Centre Selection
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newsletter of the Australian Centre for Youth Literature , November no. 3 2009; (p. 20)
— Review of Omega Park 2009 single work novel
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Boredom and Bandaids
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , August vol. 4 no. 7 2009; (p. 22)
— Review of The Danger Game 2008 single work novel ; The Ice Age 2009 single work novel ; We Don't Live Here Anymore 2009 single work novel ; Omega Park 2009 single work novel -
It's No Walk in the Park
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 15 - 16 August 2009; (p. 22)
— Review of Omega Park 2009 single work novel -
Well Read
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 22 August 2009; (p. 24)
— Review of Document Z 2008 single work novel ; Omega Park 2009 single work novel -
The Sorry Estate of the Disaffected
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-30 August 2009; (p. 12-13)
— Review of Omega Park 2009 single work novel -
[Review] Omega Park
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Incite , September vol. 30 no. 9 2009; (p. 34)
— Review of Omega Park 2009 single work novel -
Life Writing
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: UQ News , November no. 579 2008; (p. 21) -
Rookie Writer Joins Literati
2009
single work
column
— Appears in: The Australian , 9 September 2009; (p. 9) -
Emerging Author Draws on Past
2009
single work
column
— Appears in: UQ News , September 2009; (p. 20) -
The Beach as (Hu)man Limit in Gold Coast Narrative Fiction
2018
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Queensland Review , June vol. 25 no. 1 2018; (p. 149-162)'Gold Coast beaches oscillate in the cultural imagination between everyday reality and a tourist's paradise of ‘sun, surf and sex’ (Winchester and Everett 2000: 59). While these narratives of selfhood and becoming, egalitarianism and sexual liberation punctuate the media, Gold Coast literary fictions instead reveal the beach as a site of danger, wholly personifying the unknown. Within Amy Barker's Omega Park, Melissa Lucashenko's Steam Pigs, Georgia Savage's The House Tibet and Matthew Condon's Usher and A Night at the Pink Poodle, the beach is a ‘masculine’ space for testing the limit of the coastline and one's own capacity for survival. This article undertakes a close textual analysis of these novels and surveys other Gold Coast fictions alongside spatial analysis of the Gold Coast coastline. These fictions suggest that the Gold Coast is not simply a holiday world or ‘Crime Capital’ in the cultural imagination, but a mythic space with violent memories, opening out onto an infinite horizon of conflict and estrangement.'
Source: Abstract.
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Lost in Space : Gold Coast Characters Wandering Home(less)
2020
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Queensland Review , December vol. 27 no. 2 2020; (p. 181-200)
Awards
- Gold Coast, Queensland,