March 2016, no. 379
Welcome to our March issue – one of several themed issues we will publish this year. Poetry dominates the issue. First we have the five shortlisted poems in this year's international Peter Porter Poetry Prize. Then we publish the first in our States of Poetry – state-by-state anthologies designed to give readers a snapshot of some of the best contemporary poetry around the country. Peter Goldsworthy chooses six fine South Australian poets. Elsewhere, Kerryn Goldsworthy praises Suzanne Falkiner's important biography of the great novelist (and poet) Randolph Stow.
Full Contents
Politics
Battleground: Why the Liberal Party Shirtfronted Tony Abbott by Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen
Biography
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science by Andrea Wulf
by Paul Giles
Environmental Studies
The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards a Greener Future by David R. Boyd
by Ian Lowe
Politics
Think Again: Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law, and Education by Stanley Fish
by Glyn Davis
Essays
The Best American Essays 2015 edited by Ariel Levy & The Best Australian Essays 2015 edited by Geordie Williamson
Literary Studies
Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead by Nicholas Birns
by Susan Lever
Anthology
Falling and Flying: Poems on Ageing edited by Judith Beveridge and Susan Ogle
Anthology
Union: 15 Years of Drunken Boat, 50 Years of Writing from Singapore edited by Alvin Pang and Ravi Shankar
by Sara Savage
Music
Good Night and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Life by David Cavanagh
by Fiona Hile
Music
Yodelling Boundary Riders: Country Music in Australia since the 1920s by Toby Martin
by Doug Wallen
Environmental Studies
Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider’s Stand Against the World’s Most Powerful Industry by Andrew Nikiforuk
Australian History
A Little America in Western Australia: The US Naval Communication Station at North West Cape and the Founding of Exmouth by Anthony J. Barker and Michael L. Ondaatje
by Seumas Spark
Memoir
The Bauhinia Tree: The Life of Kankawa Nagarra Olive Knight by Kankawa Nagarra Olive Knight
Anthology
The Lifted Brow: No. 28 edited by Stephanie Van Schilt, Ellena Savage, and Gillian Terzis
by Joseph Rubbo