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Luke Slattery

Luke Slattery is a Sydney-based author and journalist. His most recent book is The First Dismissal (Penguin, 2014).

Luke Slattery reviews 'Being There' by David Malouf

May 2015, no. 371 27 April 2015
In ‘Birthday Poem at Thirty’, a young David Malouf considers his place in the scheme of things as dawn breaks over an unnamed and unlovely ‘northern town’. The poet, who seems dislodged from home, regards himself with a dry eye – ‘no visible scars / no medals’ – and wonders where he will go from here, and how far. ‘Far indeed’, is the answer life offers fifty years later. The s ... (read more)

Luke Slattery reviews 'Australians, Volume 3: Flappers to Vietnam' by Thomas Keneally

March 2015, no. 369 01 March 2015
The European settlement of Australia, the colony’s earliest years, its expansion into, and alienation of, lands inhabited for millennia by the first Australians: these are the great and abiding themes of the Australian story. Together with the rather overdone nationalist narratives of war rekindled each and every Anzac Day, they are the focal points of popular historical memory. As a result, mos ... (read more)