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WORD OF THE DAY 2: WORDWATCHING: Kel Richards by

by Carol Middleton •

October 2006, no. 285

WORD OF THE DAY 2: WORDWATCHING: Kel Richards

ABC Books, $19.95 pb, 191 pp, 0733317650

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WORD OF THE DAY 2: WORDWATCHING: Kel Richards by

by Carol Middleton •

October 2006, no. 285

The popularity of his ABC radio program WordWatch gives Kel Richards the licence to publish a second volume of definitions of words and phrases and ‘terse verse’. Word of the Day 2: Wordwatching reads like an exact transcript of Richards’s radio program, complete with off-the-cuff comments.

Carol Middleton

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Carol Middleton is a journalist, arts critic and author, based in Melbourne. Her short story awards include second place in The Age competition 2010. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in the anthologies Melbourne Subjective, Ink3 and Vine Leaves Literary Journal. She is working on a memoir in essays.