1. APRIL HIGHLIGHTS
2. ABR SUBSCRIPTION SPECIALS – win a signed copy of Les Murray's Taller When Prone, tickets to the Australian Chamber Orchestra, or tickets to the film The Last Station
3. APRIL ADVANCES
4. ABR SHORT STORY COMPETITION
5. E-NEWS SPECIAL – tickets to Honour by Joanna Murray-Smith presented by the Sydney Theatre Company
6. YOUR SAY
Brigitta Olubas considers ‘movement, passage, transposition and transit’ in the cosmopolitan oeuvre of Shirley Hazzard.
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Congratulations to Diane Fahey, Anthony Lawrence, Jillian Pattinson, Ynes Sanz and Philip Salom; in contention for this year’s ABR Poetry Prize.
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Kate Holden is fascinated by Clinton Caward’s salacious and tragicomic debut novel Love Machine.
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David McCooey ponders the twin forces of estrangement and sociability at work in Les Murray’s new collection, Taller When Prone.
Daniel Vuillermin has reservations about Patricia Anderson’s new biography of the young Robert Hughes.
Open Page with Sonya Hartnett
Gregory Kratzmann on gay and lesbian poetry
Henry Reynolds on Settler Sovereignty
Brian McFarlane on Australian radio
Jonty Driver on South Africa
Martin Duwell on Thomas Shapcott
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This month you have three excellent reasons to renew your subscription – or to subscribe if you don’t subscribe already.
Ten new subscribers will receive, courtesy of Black Inc., a SIGNED COPY of Les Murray's new poetry collection of short stories, Taller When Prone.
To reward our current subscribers, we have two special offers:
Ten of those who renew for two years or more will receive a ticket valued at $90 to one of four April concerts by the vaunted Australian Chamber Orchestra, led by Richard Tognetti. For more information on the concerts click here.
We also have twenty-five double passes to the new film about the Tolstoys The Last Station for renewing subscribers.
A reminder: current subscribers can renew at any point to be eligible.
During Writers’ Week last month, many of the writers on the program were outraged to learn of the plight of their fellow guest, Robert Dessaix. The celebrated author of A Mother’s Disgrace and Arabesques was scheduled to fly to China at the conclusion of Writers’ Week, having been invited by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to take part in Shanghai’s International Literary Festival, along with writers such as Les Murray and Alexis Wright. Ironically or not (was there a punitive link here, Robert Dessaix later wondered in public), he was replacing Frank Moorhouse, who had withdrawn from the festival because of the imprisonment of Chinese writers. China then banned Dr Dessaix from entering the country because of his HIV status.
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To complement our suite of literary competitions, ABR is reviving the Short Story Competition, with a first prize valued at $2000. There are two other prizes. All three place-getters will be published in the magazine. Stories in English of between 1000 and 3000 words are eligible, as long as they have not been published previously or are not on offer elsewhere. Multiple entries are acceptable. The closing date is May 10.
CLICK HERE for the entry form, or ring (03) 9429 6700.
ABR now publishes short fiction. We welcome submissions from authors.
Sydney Theatre Company and ABR are giving e-news subscribers the chance to win one of five double passes to see Honour by Joanna Murray-Smith from Friday 23 April to Wednesday 28 April at the Sydney Opera House, Sydney.
Wendy Hughes and William Zappa make welcome returns to Sydney Theatre Company to perform the roles of Honor and George in this revival of a modern Australian classic.
Simply be the first to email your name and contact phone number with the subject line 'HONOUR' to abr@australianbookreview.com.au
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If you have anything you'd like to say about ABR or the literary world in general, you can either contribute to our lively letters page with a Letter to the Editor, or post your comment to the ABR blog.
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