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October 2012, no. 345
ONLINE ONLY
Full Contents
Advances
News from the Editor's Desk
by
Hidden Author
Biography
The Two Frank Thrings
by Peter Fitzpatrick
by
Ian Britain
Fiction
The Watch Tower
by Elizabeth Harrower
by
Kerryn Goldsworthy
Fiction
The Voyage
by Murray Bail
by
James Ley
Features
Braiding the Voices: Essays in Poetry
by Peter Steele
by
Paul Kane
Anthology
A Point of View
by Clive James
by
Andy Lloyd James
International Studies
Burma: A Nation at the Crossroads
by Benedict Rogers
by
Nick Hordern
Essay
ABR Copyright Agency Fellowship: 'Man on the Margins' by Jennifer Lindsay
by
Jennifer Lindsay
Poetry
The Red Sea: New and Selected Poems
by Stephen Edgar
by
Geoffrey Lehmann
Letters
Letters to the Editor
by
Hidden Author
Fiction
Questions of Travel
by Michelle de Kretser
by
Melinda Harvey
Fiction
The Engagement
by Chloe Hooper
by
Kate McFadyen
Fiction
Lola Bensky
by Lily Brett
by
Francesca Sasnaitis
Fiction
The Memory of Salt
by Alice Melike Ülgezer
by
Claudia Hyles
Fiction
The Midnight Promise
by Zane Lovitt
by
Sky Kirkham
Fiction
Black Mountain
by Venero Armanno
by
Jeffrey Poacher
Fiction
Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew
by Shehan Karunatilaka
by
Ed Wright
Fiction
To the Highlands
by Jon Doust
by
Jay Daniel Thompson
Fiction
The Burial
by Courtney Collins
by
Gillian Dooley
Cartoon
Ben Juers's cartoon on the Poet Laureate
by
Ben Juers
Art
Lost Art: Two Essays on Cultural Dysfunction
by Julian Davies and Phil Day
by
Scott McCulloch
Art
Bea Maddock: Catalogue Raisonné Volume I 1951–1983
edited by Daniel Thomas
by
Ann Stephen
Theatre
On the Misconception of Oedipus
by
Andrew Fuhrmann
Film
Jedda
by Jane Mills
by
Jake Wilson
Film
Wuthering Heights
by
Brian McFarlane
Film
Nicole Kidman
by Pam Cook
by
Francesca Sasnaitis
Food
The Cookbook Library: Four Centuries of the Cooks, Writers, and Recipes That Made the Modern Cookbook
by Anne Willan, Mark Cherniavsky, and Kyri Claflin
by
Christopher Menz
Biography
Apollo in George Street: The Life of David McKee Wright
by Michael Sharkey
by
Geoff Page
Ornithology
Sentinel Chickens: What Birds Tell Us about Our Health and the World
by Peter Doherty
by
Peter Menkhorst
Mining
Mine-field: The Dark Side of Australia’s Resources Rush
by Paul Cleary
by
Gillian Terzis
Military History
Boredom is the Enemy: The Intellectual and Imaginative Lives of Australian Soldiers in the Great War and Beyond
by Amanda Laugesen
by
Craig Wilcox
Education
Stylish Academic Writing
by Helen Sword
by
Colin Steele
Journal
Island 129: Women
edited by Dale Campisi
by
Ellena Savage
Journal
Australian Poetry Journal Volume 2.1 technology
edited by Bronwyn Lea
by
Rose Lucas
Poetry
Selected Poems 1975–2010
by Ken Bolton
&
Four Poems
by Ken Bolton
by
Gig Ryan
Poetry
open sesame
by Michael Farrell
by
Peter Kenneally
French Studies
The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir
by Claude Lanzmann
by
Colin Nettelbeck
Young Adult Fiction
Creepy & Maud
by Dianne Touchell
by
Maya Linden
Poem
'Dark, Not Day', a new poem by Peter Rose
by
Peter Rose
Poem
'Diary Poem: Uses of Liquid Nitrogen', a new poem by Jennifer Maiden
by
Jennifer Maiden
Poetry
Rawshock
by Toby Fitch
by
Peter Kenneally
Poem
'Balcony 2', a new poem by Kate Middleton
by
Kate Middleton
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