Alternative title:
ABR
Issue Details:
First known date:
2012...
no.
340
April
2012
of
Australian Book Review
est. 1961
Australian Book Review
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Contents
* Contents derived from the 2012 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Advances,
single work
column
(p. 1-2)A column canvassing current literary news including a report on the 2012 winner of the Peter Porter Poetry Prize. The prize was won by Michael Farrell for 'Beautiful Mother'. ABR also comments on David Marr's talk at the 2012 Adelaide Writers' Festival. Marr's talk, focusing on Patrick White's relationship with Adelaide, will appear in the May 2012 issue of ABR.
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Missing the Point,
single work
correspondence
(p. 3)Michael Jorgensen disagrees with the views expressed in Bronwyn Lea's review ('Dubious Lessons') of Carrie Tiffany's Mateship with Birds.
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Bronwyn Lea Replies:,
single work
correspondence
(p. 3)Bronwyn Lea responds to the views put by Michael Jorgensen in his criticism of her review of Carrie Tiffany's Mateship with Birds.
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Neighbours,
single work
correspondence
(p. 3)Jim Morgan takes issue with the views expressed in Bernard Whimpress's review ('Boom Companions') of Morgan's The Premier and the Pastoralist: William Morgan and Peter Waite.
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Bernard Whimpress Replies:,
single work
correspondence
(p. 3)Bernard Whimpress responds to criticisms made by Jim Morgan (in 'Neighbours') of Whimpress's review of Morgan's Premier and the Pastoralist: William Morgan and Peter Waite.
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She Who Moves My Bones,
single work
review
— Review of The Hanging Garden 1981 single work novel ; (p. 12-13) -
Follow Your Lusts!,
single work
review
— Review of The Memoirs of a Young Bastard : The Diaries of Tim Burstall, November 1953 to December 1954 2012 single work diary ; (p. 20-21) -
Of the Station,
single work
review
— Review of True North : The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack 2012 single work biography ; (p. 21, 23) -
I, My, and Me,
single work
review
— Review of A Cook's Life 2012 single work autobiography ; (p. 25-26) -
Untitled,
single work
review
— Review of Fishing the River of Time 2012 single work prose ; (p. 26) -
Pushing against the Dark,
single work
essay
(p. 32-40)Robert Dessaix expresses the view that 'the act of writing is an act of resistance against the mortal condition - not mortality, but the mortal condition, and not in the sense of winning the writer immortality of the clichéd kind ... but in the sense of deepening and magnifying the lived moment while writing'.
- Night Guard, The Futures Museum : After the ACMI Star Voyager Exhibitioni"Rooms so familiar", single work poetry (p. 41)
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Dying Inside,
single work
review
— Review of Closer to Stone 2012 single work novel ; (p. 42) -
Umbra Penumbra,
single work
review
— Review of The Longing 2012 single work novel ; (p. 43)Note: Written as: Francesca Sasnaitis. -
Weight of It All,
single work
review
— Review of Unaccountable Hours : Three Novellas 2012 selected work novella ; (p. 44) -
Gammons, Nahs, and Youzes,
single work
review
— Review of Blue 2012 single work graphic novel ; (p. 45) -
[Review] After the Darkness,
single work
review
— Review of After the Darkness 2012 single work novel ; (p. 49) -
Audible Dance,
single work
review
— Review of Young Poets : An Australian Anthology 2011 anthology poetry ; (p. 53) -
Off the Radar,
single work
review
— Review of The Welfare of My Enemy 2011 single work poetry ; (p. 56) -
Speech Music,
single work
review
— Review of Vishvarūpa 2011 selected work poetry ; (p. 57)
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