January–February 2022, no. 439
Welcome to ABR’s summer-sized first issue of the year. Diaries and letters abound, with Lisa Gorton delving into the final instalment of Helen Garner’s published journals, and Brenda Niall reflecting on Martyn Lyon’s epistolary collection of letters sent to Robert Menzies during his prime ministership. In poetry, ABR is delighted to publish the stunning poems shortlisted for the 2022 Peter Porter Poetry Prize, as well as reviews of new collections by Tracy K. Smith, A. Frances Johnson, and David Musgrave. Elsewhere, in historical musings, Mark McKenna looks at Doug Munro’s chronicle of the scandalous stand-off between publisher Peter Ryan and historian Manning Clark. And in fiction we have reviews of new works by John le Carré, Louise Erdrich, Hannah Kent, and Wole Soyinka. Plus much more!
Full Contents
Horizontal Vertigo: A city called Mexico by Juan Villoro, translated by Alfred MacAdam
Endings & Spacings by Pam Brown & >>> & || (accelerations and inertias) by Dan Disney
Twelve Caesars: Images of power from the ancient world to the modern by Mary Beard
What Is History, Now?: How the past and present speak to each other edited by Helen Carr and Suzannah Lipscomb
Dear Prime Minister: Letters to Robert Menzies, 1949–1966 by Martyn Lyons
Frances Burke: Designer of modern textiles by Nanette Carter and Robyn Oswald-Jacobs
Patrick White’s Theatre: Australian modernism on stage, 1960–2018 by Denise Varney
The 2022 Shortlist
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