In their different ways, these three poets demonstrate how to transform everyday realities into art.
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Espionage fiction is Australia’s unloved genre, but how we speak, write and think about Australia’s intelligence gathering and espionage activities matters.
Too Many Men won acclaim for its depiction of a father and daughter and their different emotional responses to the crimes of the past. Tess Scholfield-Peters considers the book’s impact today.
Three years apart in age, Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower were both formed as writers by the fact of being Australian-born women.
War writing can be formulaic and clichéd, but Catherine McKinnon resists glorification and the usual narrative of “us against them” .
The intriguing stories in Ceridwen Dovey’s Only the Astronauts bring obscure historical footnotes to life.
Safe Haven is an excoriating account of a shameful period of Australian history, told in a life-affirming voice that imagines a more humane future.
This year’s shortlist doesn’t offer much in the way of consolation, but it might shake up how you see the world.
An 8000-km hitchhiking trip is at the heart of Anna Broinowski’s Datsun Angel. Dominic Gordon, in contrast, kicks his young self around Melbourne’s alleys like a half-squashed can of energy drink.
For poet Robert Adamson, the natural world offered a form of deliverance.
The End of the Morning is Charmian Clift’s most successful piece of fiction. But it is only a piece and one that leaves two matters unresolved.
Winnie Dunn has made it her project to bring a more sensitive intercultural understanding to an unfamiliar readership
Australian literature is a rich and largely untapped source of information about how Australians think about AI.
At a time when women had limited rights, writers found ways to raise the issues of coercion and control.
To ask whether 36 Ways to Write a Vietnamese Poem is a collection of poems or a single long poem is to step through the looking glass.
Gail Jones has written a richly evocative novel that warrants attention, both for its fascinating subject-matter and for its outstanding writerly qualities.
Marion Halligan wrote novels that are compulsively readable and full of ideas.
Georgia Blain’s final, posthumous collection offers clear-eyed, calm compassion – and a capacity to live with, and alongside, damage, trauma and unspeakable loss, and a way of staying human.
The owner of Robinsons Bookshop has listed several kinds of books ‘missing’ from its shelves, including ‘kids picture books with just white kids on the cover’.
The fiction of J.M. Coetzee is always formally daring, brave in its social critique and its refusal to play by the rules.
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Executive Dean (interim) Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Dean of Research (Creative), University of South Australia
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Professor, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Charles Sturt University
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Associate Professor of English, Australian National University
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
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Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Literature and Gender Studies, Victoria University
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Associate Professor, Writing and Literature, University of Tasmania
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Lecturer, Creative Writing, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, RMIT University
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Emeritus Professor of Australian Literature, University of Sydney
