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Griffith Review 23: Essentially Creative edited by Julianne Schultz

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April 2009, no. 310

Griffith Review 23: Essentially Creative edited by Julianne Schultz

ABC Books, $19.95 pb, 251 pp

Journal

Griffith Review 23: Essentially Creative edited by Julianne Schultz

by •
April 2009, no. 310

One year after Kevin Rudd’s 2020 Summit, Griffith Review 23 features comment from selected summiteers in the ‘Towards a Creative Australia’ group, and others. Editor Julianne Schultz’s introduction provides a short history of support for writers and artists beginning 250 years ago when Lord Bute, the prime minister, granting Samuel Johnson a government-funded pension for life, warned against ‘Reducing discussion of the arts, creativity and culture to economics …’

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Anthony Lynch

Anthony Lynch lives on the Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria, where he writes poetry, fiction, and reviews. His work has appeared in The Age, The Best Australian Poems, Island, and Southerly. His short story collection Redfin (2007) was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards. His poetry collection Night Train was published in late 2011 by Clouds of Magellan. He is publisher at the independent publishing house Whitmore Press and an editor at Deakin University.

Anthony Lynch reviews 'Griffith Review 23: Essentially Creative' edited by Julianne Schultz

Griffith Review 23: Essentially Creative

edited by Julianne Schultz

ABC Books, $19.95 pb, 251 pp

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