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Amy Baillieu

2014 Porter Prize winner

Competitions and programs 30 August 2009
 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)

Proust and Montaigne

Events 29 April 2013
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)

Index for 2012: Nos 338–347

Indexes 16 January 2013
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)

Seymour Biography Lecture

Events 02 August 2012
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)

ABR FEBRUARY 2013, NO. 348

General 27 April 2012
  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)

Quotables

Pages from old site 26 October 2011
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)

ABR Online Terms and Conditions

ABR Online Edition 01 April 2011
Australian Book Review Inc. (referred to as ‘the Publisher’ throughout) offers access to ABR Online on the following Terms and Conditions. Please read this document carefully before proceeding. The Publisher reserves the right to change the Terms and Conditions at any time. www.australianbookreview.com.au is referred to as ‘the website’ in this document. ABR Online  SUBSCRIPTION SERV ... (read more)

About Australian Book Review Online Edition

ABR Online Edition 28 March 2011
What is Australian Book Review Online Edition? Australian Book Review Online Edition is an enhanced version of the magazine accessible to subscribers on the Net. ABR OE can be read on any device with web-browsing capabilities, including desktop computers, laptops, iPads, tablets and smart phones. ABR OE in no way replaces the print version. Everyone at ABR is committed to the print edition's lon ... (read more)

Index for 2010: Nos 318-327

Indexes 08 February 2011
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)

Fiftieth anniversary prints

Pages from old site 03 February 2011
    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)
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