Australian Book Review

April 1981, no. 29

April 1981, no. 29

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Poetry

The Poetry of Judith Wright: A search for unity by Shirley Walker

by Jennifer Strauss

Non-fiction

Winner Take All? by Donald Horne

Fiction

Xavier Herbert’s Capricornia and Poor Fellow My Country by John McLaren

by Russel McDougall

Art

The Shock of the New by Robert Hughes

by Memory Holloway

Publishing

‘Downhill All the Way’ by Frank Thompson

by Frank Thompson

Fiction

Come Spring by Maria Lewitt & A Breed of Women by Fiona Kidman

by Frances McInherny

History

Rites of Passage by William Golding

by David English

Sport

Encyclopedia of Australian Sport by Jim Shepherd

by Barry Andrews

Patrick White by Brian Kiernan

Art

The Years of Hope: Australian Art and Criticism 1959–1968 by Gary Catalano

Shakespeare

Axel Clark reviews four books

Biography

Henry Parkes: A Biography by A.W. Martin

by Warren Osmond

Fiction

Clotted Rot for Clots and Rotters by Patricia Rolfe

by Vane Lindesay

History

Editor's Note

by John McLaren

Biography

The Champagne Trail: Experiences of a diplomat by Alan Renouf

Australian History

Australian Imperialism in the Pacific: The expansionist era 1820-1920 by Roger C. Thompson

by Patricia Grimshaw

Essay

‘All by Themselves’ by Margaret Dunkle

by Margaret Dunkle

Essay

‘Downhill All the Way’ by Frank Thompson

by Frank Thompson

Photography

New England from Old Photographs by Lionel Gilbert & Woollahra by Eric Russell

by Nancy Keesing

History

Yaldwyn of the Golden Spurs by J. O. Randell & Mountain Gold by John Adams

by Janet McCalman

Biography

Charlie Hammond’s Sketchbook by Christopher Fry

by Marjorie Tipping

Gender

Women Sex and Pornography by Beatrice Faust

by Margaret Smith

Poetry

The Silent Piano by Philip Salom

by Ross Bennett

Politics

Political Fictions by Michael Wilding & The Workingman’s Paradise by William Lane

by Laurie Clancy

Australian History

The Voyaging Stars: Secrets of the Pacific Island navigators by David Lewis

by Kenneth Gordon McIntyre

Poetry

The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Verse edited by Harry Heseltine

by James Koehne

The Murders at Hanging Rock by Yvonne Rosseau

by Philippa Hawker

The Last New Wave: The Australian film revival by David Stratton

Journalism

In Search of Keith Murdoch by Desmond Zwar

by Geoffrey Serle

Christina Stead’s The Man Who Loved Children & For Love Alone by Laurie Clancy

by Susan Higgins

Art

Augustus Earle: Travel Artist by Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones

by Bernard Smith