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Griffith Review 23: Essentially Creative edited by Julianne Schultz

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April 2009, no. 310

Griffith Review 23: Essentially Creative edited by Julianne Schultz

ABC Books, $19.95 pb, 251 pp

Journal

Griffith Review 23: Essentially Creative edited by Julianne Schultz

by •
April 2009, no. 310

One year after Kevin Rudd’s 2020 Summit, Griffith Review 23 features comment from selected summiteers in the ‘Towards a Creative Australia’ group, and others. Editor Julianne Schultz’s introduction provides a short history of support for writers and artists beginning 250 years ago when Lord Bute, the prime minister, granting Samuel Johnson a government-funded pension for life, warned against ‘Reducing discussion of the arts, creativity and culture to economics …’

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Anthony Lynch

Anthony Lynch writes fiction, poetry and reviews. His work has appeared in The Best Australian Stories, The Best Australian Poems, Meanjin, Island, Australian Book Review, The Saturday Paper, The Age and The Australian, and been read on ABC Radio. His books are a short story collection, Redfin, and a poetry collection, Night Train. He is the publisher for Whitmore Press. A new collection of stories, HomeFront, is forthcoming from Puncher & Wattmann in mid-2025.

Griffith Review 23: Essentially Creative

Griffith Review 23: Essentially Creative

edited by Julianne Schultz

ABC Books, $19.95 pb, 251 pp

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