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June 2008, no. 302
Welcome to the June 2008 issue of
Australian Book Review.
ONLINE ONLY
Full Contents
Memoir
Not Quite Straight: A memoir
by Jeffrey Smart
by
Ian Britain
Fiction
A Fraction of the Whole
by Steve Toltz
by
Louise Swinn
Poetry
Shades of the Sublime and the Beautiful
by John Kinsella
by
Nicholas Birns
Fiction
Musk and Byrne
by Fiona Capp
by
Adam Rivett
Poem
'Aeneas Remembers Domestic Bliss' a poem by Dorothy Porter
by
Dorothy Porter
Poetry
The Australian Popular Songbook
by Alan Wearne
by
David McCooey
Children's Fiction
Miss McAllister’s Ghost
by Elizabeth Fensham
&
Take it Easy, Danny Allen
by Phil Cummings
by
Anna Ryan-Punch
Fiction
The Steele Diaries
by Wendy James
by
Christina Hill
Anthropology
A Cautious Silence: The politics of Australian anthropology
by Geoffrey Gray
by
Francesca Merlan
History
A River Kwai Story
by Robin Rowland
&
The Men of the Line
by Pattie Wright
by
John Connor
Letters
'Letter from New Haven' by Angus Trumble
by
Angus Trumble
Australian Fiction
Beneath the Bloodwood Tree
by Julienne van Loon
by
Peter Pierce
June 2008 - Advances
by
Australian Book Review
Non-fiction
Time warp
by
Peter Rodgers
War
A neglected campaign
by
Jeffrey Grey
Young Adult Fiction
Spur to the imagination
by
Chad Habel
Non-fiction
Days in FitzCarlton
by
Martin Ball
Theatre
The birth of opera
by
Robert Gibson
Military History
All in!
by
Peter Edwards
Poetry
'Icarus in C' by Judith Bishop
by
Judith Bishop
Poetry
'What Comes Next' by Joan Grant
by
Joan Grant
Non-fiction
Multiple modernisms
by
Jennifer Strauss
Australian Fiction
Visceral writing
by
Stephanie Green
Non-fiction
No ideas but in things
by
Hugo Bowne-Anderson
Non-fiction
Move over, Polonius!
by
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Politics
Scholars and qadis
by
Jonathan Pearlman
Art
Words strain
by
Luke Morgan
Art
Wuthering heights
by
Mary Eagle
Poetry
A sceptical heart
by
Ian Templeman
What choice?
by
Marian Quartly
Patron's Corner
by
Australian Book Review
Tragic outcomes
by
Beverley Kingston
Camels and stink bombs
by
Nick Fischer
Luck and happenstance
by
Sylvia Marchant
Quickening brevity
by
Marion M Campbell
JOURNALS
by
Lyn McCredden
June 2008 - Letters
by
Australian Book Review
LA TROBE UNIVERSITY NEWS
by
Lawrie Zion
Pornarama
by
Jay Daniel Thompson
IN BRIEF
by
Tali Polichtuk
IN BRIEF
by
Matthew Clayfield
IN BRIEF
by
Gillian Dooley
IN BRIEF
by
Emily Fraser
IN BRIEF
by
Gillian Dooley
IN BRIEF
by
Steve Gome
Discovering exploration
by
Ian Morrison
Poems
The importance of elsewhere
by
Maria Takolander
Anthologies
Privileging the pastoral?
by
Andrew Burns
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