Jessica L. Wilkinson wins 2014 Porter Prize
Australian Book Review is delighted to announce that Jessica L. Wilkinson has won the 2014 ABR Peter Porter Poetry Prize for her poem ‘Arrival Platform Humlet’. Jessica receives $4,000 for her winning poem, which was drawn from a field of just under 700 entries.
Elizabeth Allen, Nathan Curnow, and Paul Kane were also shortlisted ... (read more)
Amy Baillieu
Proust and Montaigne – Writing the Self, May 15 at 6.p.m
Francophiles, essayists, and Proustians will not want to miss a joint ABR and Melbourne Library Services event to be held in the East Melbourne Library on Wednesday, 15 May (6 p.m.). Noted French scholars and enthusiasts Véronique Duché and Colin Nettelbeck (who reviews Camus’s Algerian Chronicles for us in the May issue) ... (read more)
Reviews Index 2012
ALDRICH, Robert, Gay Life Stories, Thames & Hudson, 342/58, Brian McFarlane
ALEXANDER, Stephanie, A Cook’s Life, Lantern, 340/25, Gay Bilson
ALLEN, Emma, The Terrible Suitcase, Omnibus Books, 344/74, Stephanie Owen Reeder
AMIN, Manisha Jolie, Dancing to the Flute, Allen & Unwin, 344/49, Diana Carroll
ANDERSON, Jaynie (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Australian ... (read more)
Investigative Reporter of the Spirit: The Search for Five Women
Presented by Jeffrey Meyers
Renowned biographer Professor Jeffrey Meyers delivered the eighth annual Seymour Biography Lecture – on the craft of biography, autobiography, and memoir. In his work on Joseph Conrad, Wyndham Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Robert Frost, Meyers was fascinated to learn that e ... (read more)
Purchase the February 2013 print edition
Purchase the February 2013 print edition
Features
The outlook for America in Obama’s second term Morag Fraser
Fit audience of readers Bernadette Brennan
The cult of Rupert Murdoch Joel Deane
A copious biography of J.M. Coetzee Gillian Dooley
Shapes of feelings in Brian Castro Francesca Sasnaitis
When Nettie Palmer visited Henry Han ... (read more)
Tony Birch
‘Blood has a freshness of tone and determined vigour that are frequently lacking in the work of many male Australian writers.’
Chris Flynn reviewed Blood (University of Queensland Press) in December 2011–January 2012.
Steven Carroll
‘Carroll has established himself as one of Australia’s finest contemporary novelists. Despite accolades and awards, hi ... (read more)
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REVIEWS INDEX 2010
AARONS, Mark, The Family File, Black Inc., 324/25, Dennis Altman ABELA, Deborah, Grimsdon, Random House, 325/71, Kate Eltham ADAMS, Simon, The Unforgiving Rope: Murder and Hanging on Australia’s Western Frontier, UWAP, 319/51, Richard Harding AHMAD, Irfan, Islamism and Democracy in India: The Transformation of Jamaat-E-Islami, Princeton University Press, 325/51, Greg Barton A ... (read more)
W.H. Chong
In the Library (David Malouf)
2011 Melbourne
hand-coloured linocut 20.0 x 25.0 cm
edition of 20
W.H. Chong
Kate Grenville
2011 Melbourne
two-colour linocut 20.0 x 25.0 cm
edition of 15
W.H. Chong
‘The Most Dangerous Man in the World’
(Julian Assange, WikiLeaks)
2011 Melbourne
linocut on Arches paper
25.0 x 20.0 cm (i ... (read more)