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It’s the silence. Even by the river, my ears are straining. It’s the silence. At this moment it’s a warmish humid silence with the grass outside lushly mesmerising the eye.
... (read more)Keeper of the Faith: A biography of Jim Cairns by Paul Strangio
by Gideon Haigh •
Ladies Who Lunge: Celebrating difficult women by Tara Brabazon
by Natalya Lusty •
Moral Hazard by Kate Jennings & Judgement Rock by Joanna Murray-Smith
by Delia Falconer •
Paul Kane reviews ‘The Poetry of Les Murray’ edited by Laurie Hergenhan and Bruce Clunies Ross, ‘Les Murray’ by Steven Matthews, and ‘Poems the Size of Photographs’ by Les Murray
by Paul Kane •
You might expect a book of eighty-eight new poems by Les Murray to be sizeable (most of his recent single volumes run to about sixty poems each). But Poems the Size of Photographs is literally a small book, composed of short poems (‘though some are longer’, says the back cover) ...
... (read more)Australian Painting 1788–2000 by Bernard Smith, with Terry Smith and Christopher Heathcote
by Daniel Thomas •