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#17 Stephen Orr reads 'Ambassadors from Another Time'

The ABR Podcast 02 November 2017
From the Herbig family who lived in a hollowed out tree trunk to Dr Bosisto’s ‘Syrup of Red Gum’, from the trauma and regeneration of bushfires to the ill-fated Burnside Village tree, the Tree of Knowledge, and the ‘dig tree’ - how can we understand Australia’s complex relationship with the eucalypt? The October 2017 Environment issue of Australian Book Review includes the third ABR Eu ... (read more)

Letters to the Editor - November 2017

November 2017, no. 396 25 October 2017
Marriage equality Dear Editor,I voted Yes in the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey. However, I tend to agree with those who consider that a survey of this nature should not be necessary. On the basis of its international treaty obligations, the federal government already has a constitutionally valid means of legislating for same-sex marriage. Homosexuality is a perfectly natural phenomenon, ... (read more)

The Update - October 24, 2017

ABR Arts 24 October 2017
  Recent ABR Arts reviews Harry Windsor reviews Suburbicon (Roadshow Films) ★★★ Dilan Gunawardana reviews the 2017 Melbourne Festival Louise Martin-Chew reviews Gerhard Richter: The life of images (QAGOMA) Ian Dickson reviews Norma (Metropolitan Opera) ★★ Sally Grant reviews On Country: Australian Aboriginal art from the Kaplan–Levi Gift (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) ... (read more)

About Samuel Wagan Watson | States of Poetry QLD - Series Two

States of Poetry Queensland - Series Two 23 October 2017
Born in Brisbane 1972, Samuel’s poetry has collected numerous accolades and opportunities. His writing is featured in anthologies, public art works, films, and on-board the international space station. Love Poems and Death Threats is his latest collection with University of Queensland Press. He recently won the 2015 Raw Roar Poetry Slam in Wagga Wagga. Poems 'When we dreamt like Kerouac' 'Tug ... (read more)

About Anna Jacobson | States of Poetry QLD - Series Two

States of Poetry Queensland - Series Two 20 October 2017
Anna Jacobson is a Brisbane-based poet, writer, and artist. Her poetry has been published in literary journals including Cordite, Rabbit, Australian Poetry Journal, Tincture, and Verity La, and it is forthcoming in Meanjin. Anna is currently shortlisted for two categories in the 2017 Queensland Literary Awards: her unpublished memoir How to Knit a Human, which weaves together poetry, photography, ... (read more)

About Zenobia Frost | States of Poetry QLD - Series Two

States of Poetry Queensland - Series Two 17 October 2017
Zenobia Frost is a writer from Brisbane, Australia. Her work has appeared in Overland, Cordite, Arc (Canada), Scum, Woolf Pack, and the Hunter Anthology of Contemporary Feminist Poetry. In 2015, an ArtStart grant allowed her to study poetry in Germany at the Black Forest Writing Seminars and through digital workshops with Warsan Shire. Her first collection, Salt and Bone, was published by Walleah ... (read more)

About Annamaria Weldon | States of Poetry WA - Series Two

States of Poetry Western Australia - Series Two 13 October 2017
Annamaria Weldon’s writing residency with Symbiotica UWA prompted the poems, essays, and photographs of Yalgorup National Park in her last book, The Lake’s Apprentice (UWAP, 2014). She has just completed her third poetry collection, inspired by Malta’s Neolithic temple culture. She researched and wrote during several visits to her birth island, most recently as 2016 Writer in Residence at St ... (read more)

2018 Calibre Essay Prize Judges

Competitions and programs 26 August 2014
Andrea Goldsmith is a Melbourne-based novelist, reviewer and essayist. Her literary essays have appeared in Heat, Meanjin, Australian Book Review, Best Australian Essays, as well as numerous anthologies. Her most recent novel, The Memory Trap, won the Melbourne Prize for best literary work in 2015. Her new novel, The Science of Departures is due out in 2018.       Phillipa ... (read more)

Write for ABR Arts

ABR Arts 20 September 2017
ABR Arts covers all the arts – film, theatre, music, art exhibitions, festivals, etc. We pay for everything we publish, and we are committed to increasing our rates when we can. All reviews appear promptly online; some later appear in the print edition. Reviews are open-access for the first fortnight, then paywalled. ABR is always looking for assured critics and arts journalists. This docu ... (read more)