December 2011–January 2012, no. 337

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December 2011–January 2012, no. 337

Full Contents

News from the Editor's Desk

Letters to the Editor - December 2011-January 2012

The Sweet Spot: How Australia Made Its Own Luck – And Could Now Throw It All Away by Peter Hartcher & The Fog On The Hill: How NSW Labor lost its way by Frank Sartor

Norman Etherington reviews 'An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark' by Mark McKenna

Thirty Australian Poets edited by Felicity Plunkett

Australian Poetry since 1788 edited by Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray

'Russell Drysdale’s Trousers', a new story by Catherine Moffat

ABR Sidney Myer Fund Fellowship: 'Sweeping Up the Ashes' by Rachel Buchanan

Open Page with Frank Moorhouse

Joseph Lyons: The People’s Prime Minister by Anne Henderson

The Best Australian Stories 2011 edited by Cate Kennedy

'Penillion of Tuning the Harpsichord', a new poem by John Kinsella

'Savonarola', a new poem by Gig Ryan

Forecast: Turbulence by Janette Turner Hospital

Blood by Tony Birch

Animal People by Charlotte Wood

War & Peace and Sonya by Judith Armstrong

Inherited by Amanda Curtin

The Dark Wet by Jess Huon

The Tall Man

Burning Issues: Fire in Art and the Social Imagination by Alan Krell

Australian Poetry Journal: Beginnings edited by Bronwyn Lea

The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland by Alexandra Walsham

The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for How We Live Now edited by George Levine

Why Leaders Lie: The Truth about Lying in International Politics by John Mearsheimer

The Flight Attendant’s Shoe by Prudence Black

The Coming of the Whirlpool: Ship Kings Book One by Andrew McGahan

Alaska by Sue Saliba & Clara in Washington by Penny Tangey

Dancing with Warriors by Philip Flood

New and Selected Poems by Gig Ryan

The Wing Collection: New and Selected Poems by Diane Fahey

Slo-Mo Tsunami and Other Poems by Bruce Dawe

Books of the Year: Children and Young Adults 2011

Books of the Year 2011

Joy Lawn surveys a number of new children's picture books