Robert Wood

http://www.robertdwood.net

Robert Wood is the Director of Writing and Publishing at the Centre for Stories, an arts non-profit in Perth that shares stories for social cohesion and Chair of PEN Perth. He is interested in media ownership, minority languages, and decarceration. The author of three books, Robert has held fellowships at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. In 2024, he is a Sir Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop Fellow at the University of Melbourne and Asialink.

Robert Wood reviews ‘Tossed up by the Beak of a Cormorant’ by Nandi Chinna and Anne Poelina

July 2024, no. 466 • 21 June 2024

In her fifth full-length poetry collection, Tossed up by the Beak of a Cormorant, Nandi Chinna continues to write about her engagement with the natural world. Authored in collaboration with Wagaba Nyikina Warrwa Elder, Anne Poelina, this book sees her move north and west into the Kimberley. This is where the Martuwarra (Fitzroy River) runs through Bunuba, Gooniyandi, Nyikina, Walmajarri, and Wangk ... (read more)

'Rights and responsibilities: Literary journals and freedom of expression' by Robert Wood

June–July 2020, no. 422 • 26 May 2020

A number of recent political events in Australia will have enduring and wide-ranging impacts on freedom of expression in this country. They include the denial of access to archival papers concerning the Whitlam dismissal, which Professor Jenny Hocking detailed in the April 2020 issue of ABR. There are also mounting concerns about raids on and threats to journalists, especially the mixed decision ... (read more)