April 2013, no. 350

Welcome to issue number 350 of ABR! Leading the way is our Calibre Prize winner for 2013 – Martin Thomas’s magnificent account of the violation and restitution of Aboriginal bones in west Arnhem Land. Gillian Terzis and Alison Broinowski review new books by Al Gore and Oliver Stone, respectively. Patrick Allington praises a novella by Marion May Campbell, who is our guest on Open Page. There is news of two new ABR writers’ fellowships, each worth $5000. We also have poems by Laurie Duggan, Clive James, and Jennifer Maiden.

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Calibre Prize

April 2013, no. 350

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2013 Calibre Prize (Winner): Because it's Your Country

Gillian Terzis on Al Gore's 'The Future'

Don Anderson reviews 'A World of Other People' by Steven Carroll

Patrick Allington reviews 'Konkretion' by Marion May Campbell

Alison Broinowski reviews 'The Untold History of the United States' by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick

Geoffrey Lehmann reviews 'New and Selected Poems' by Chris Wallace-Crabbe

'Early to Bed', a new poem by Clive James

Robin Prior on 'The Making of the First World War'

Letters to the Editor

News from the Editor's Desk

Open Page with Marion May Campbell

Gay Bilson reviews 'The Art of the Restaurateur'

The fortunes of HHR’s father

Paul Madden reviews 'Raffles and the Golden Opportunity, 1781–1826'

Lyndon Megarrity reviews 'I Am Bound to be True' by Mary Elizabeth Calwell

Jen Webb reviews Paul Daley's 'Canberra'

'Diary Poem: Uses of Cosiness', a new poem by Jennifer Maiden

Geoff Page reviews '150 Motets' by Homer Rieth

'An Ordinary Evening in Newtown', a new poem by Laurie Duggan

Geoffrey Blainey reviews 'Australian War Memorial'

Kári Gíslason on 'Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure'

Peter Kenneally reviews the new biography of Werner Pelz

Denise O'Dea reviews 'The Secret Lives of Men' by Georgia Blain

Ruth Starke reviews 'Cat & Fiddle' by Lesley Jørgensen

Judith Armstrong reviews 'Chasing the Light: A Novel of Antarctica' by Jesse Blackadder

Hate

Jake Wilson reviews ‘''Our Kind of Movie'': The Films of Andy Warhol'

Great Expectations

Cassandra Atherton on 'Australian Poetry Journal, Volume 2, Issue 2'

Amy Baillieu reviews 'The Sleepers Almanac No. 8' edited by Zoe Dattner and Louise Swinn

Paul Humphries reviews 'Flood Country' by Emily O’Gorman

Laurie Steed reviews 'The Dunbar Case' by Peter Corris

Ben Eltham reviews 'As the River Runs' by Stephen Scourfield

Carol Middleton reviews 'Madame Bovary’s Haberdashery' by Maurilia Meehan

Rachel Robertson reviews 'Welcome to Your New Life'

Nick Haslam reviews 'Virginia Woolf and Neuropsychiatry'

Sophie McIntyre reviews 'Photography and China' by Claire Roberts

Margaret Robson Kett reviews eight new picture books