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A Masaccio Ticket to Mildura

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December 2004–January 2005, no. 267

Vintage: Celebrating ten years of the Mildura writers' festival edited by Donata Carrazza and Paul Kane

Hardie Grant, $29.95pb, 256pp

A Masaccio Ticket to Mildura

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December 2004–January 2005, no. 267

Years before I had set foot in Italy, Masaccio’s frescoes, even in flat reproduction, opened a bright chink into a time and place not my own. There were the indelible faces, the bustle, colour, the human jousting – life so vivid, foreign and shockingly familiar. Vintage is the literary harvest of ten years of a writers’ festival in Mildura. If, like me, you have never been, this is your Masaccio ticket of entry into a decade of conversations, poems, stories, essays, recipes, letters, music and song. Vintage could be a ragbag, but it isn’t. It could be a self-congratulatory riff, but it isn’t, because the writing is of such quality and because the presiding figure of Stefano de Pieri gives the volume coherence and verve.

Vintage: Celebrating ten years of the Mildura writers' festival

Vintage: Celebrating ten years of the Mildura writers' festival

edited by Donata Carrazza and Paul Kane

Hardie Grant, $29.95pb, 256pp

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