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A dillybag of goodies

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July–August 2008, no. 303

Stunned Mullets and Two-pot Screamers: A dictionary of Australian colloquialisms, Fifth Edition by G.A. Wilkes

Oxford University Press, $45 pb, 412 pp

A dillybag of goodies

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July–August 2008, no. 303

Gerry Wilkes has done the state a great deal of service, and he should get full credit once again, as the eclipsed terrain of Australian literature emerges into the sunlight: which it seems to be doing right now, to judge from some recent movements in publishing. So let’s keep abreast of our language, all the while: that is to say, of our dominant or mainstream language, amid whatever others we have to offer.

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Chris Wallace-Crabbe

Chris Wallace-Crabbe AM is the author of more than twenty collections of poetry. His most recent books of verse include The Universe Looks Down (2005), and Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw (2008). He is Professor Emeritus in Culture and Communication at Melbourne University. Also a public speaker and commentator on the visual arts, he specialises in ‘artists’ books’. Read It Again, a volume of critical essays, was published in 2005. Among other awards he has won the Dublin Prize for Arts and Sciences and the Christopher Brennan Award for Literature. His latest book is Rondo (2018).

Stunned Mullets and Two-pot Screamers: A dictionary of Australian colloquialisms, Fifth Edition

Stunned Mullets and Two-pot Screamers: A dictionary of Australian colloquialisms, Fifth Edition

by G.A. Wilkes

Oxford University Press, $45 pb, 412 pp

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