May 2014, no. 361
Welcome to the May issue! Our main feature is our Peter Porter Poetry Prize shortlist for 2014 – featuring poems by Elizabeth Allen, Nathan Curnow, Paul Kane, and Jessica L. Wilkinson. Ann-Marie Priest is the author of the first of our Calibre-shortlisted essays: a long study of Henry Handel Richardson’s relationship with Olga Roncoroni. Also in the May issue: Joan Beaumont on the commercialisation of the Anzacs, Kevin Rabalais on David Malouf, and reviews of new fiction by Tony Birch, Siri Hustvedt, and Robert Hillman. Henry Reynolds reviews Tom Lawson’s new work on the Tasmanian genocide, and Richard J. Martin explores Aboriginal political agency.
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YA Fiction
The One and Only Jack Chant by Rosie Borella & The Haunting of Lily Frost by Nova Weetman
by Maya Linden
Cultural Studies
Always Almost Modern: Australian print cultures and modernity by David Carter
by Susan Lever
Indigenous Studies
Protests, Land Rights and Riots: Postcolonial struggles in Australia in the 1980s by Barry Morris
Politics
The Gillard Governments: Australian Commonwealth administration edited by Chris Aulich
Letters
Never Mind about the Bourgeoisie: The correspondence between Iris Murdoch and Brian Medlin 1976–1995 edited by Gillian Dooley and Graham Nerlich
Military History