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The Sydney Theatre Company’s adaptation of the book is both more poignant and more life-affirming from the dry bones of the original.
In the 1957 worldwide bestseller, Australia is – briefly – the last habitable place on earth, following a nuclear world war. One character asks, as they wait to die: ‘Why did all this happen to us?’
The Pole and Other Stories explores familiar Coetzeean themes of love, death, ageing, art and human-animal interaction.
Henry Lawson said deafness was ‘in a great measure responsible for my writing’. Wright said hers was ‘part of the conditions I live under’. Their disability was inherent to their creativity.
In speaking to the moment, poets are bringing the apocalypse to Australian literature.
Jen Craig’s new novel Wall confirms she is an ambitious writer in the best sense: she wants to convey deeply conflicted and even contradictory states of being in the world.
In her latest book, Sarah Krasnostein goes straight for the soul of Peter Carey’s writing.
Call Me Marlowe is a cosmopolitan novel that that challenges our commitments to national stories.
The Anniversary is a clever reflection on the relationship between art and life.
A new poetry collection takes falling as its unifying theme, but the contents suggest something more horizontal and glitchy.
John Tranter’s poetry was defined by his relentless desire to experiment.
Alexis Wright’s latest novel is an elegy and an ode to Aboriginal law and sovereignty: innovative, visionary, and volcanic in its rage.
In his latest novel, Gregory Day forces the reader to slow down and attend to the ecology of place.
Crime fiction’s place-specific exploration of justice seems ideally suited to Indigenous authors wanting to explore historical and contemporary issues.
Plagiarism can feel like a personal deception, but there is something tragic about it too.
Paul Dalgarno’s latest novel is a meditation on the sorrows that rip a family apart and a celebration of the love that threads it back together.
Set in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, Shirley switches between psychological realism and playful satire.
Reading, as the Prime Minister has reminded us, got many of us through lockdowns. And there are some major initiatives for writing and publishing in the new national cultural policy.
The concept of a national poet laureate has a long history. The establishment of an official Australian position represents an unmissable opportunity.
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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
