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Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack: More than a Bauhaus artist by Resi Schwarzbauer with Chris Bell
by Seumas Spark •
To Kidnap a Pope: Napoleon and Pius VII by Ambrogio A. Caiani
by Miles Pattenden •
Dizzy Limits: Recent experiments in Australian nonfiction by Brow Books
by James Antoniou •
The Children’s Country: Creation of a Goolarabooloo future in north-west Australia by Stephen Muecke
by Philip Morrissey •
Toby Davidson’s first collection, Beast Language, was published nine years ago. That feels surprising: its freshness then makes it feel more recent now. Much of the movement in that book is present in his new collection, Four Oceans (Puncher & Wattmann, $25 pb, 93 pp), literally so, as we begin with a long sequence aboard the Indian Pacific from Perth to Sydney. It’s his younger self again, leaving home for the ‘eastern states’, but with an esprit de l’escalier twist, as that younger self gets to see and describe everything with the eye and language of the older, freer, more assured Davidson.
... (read more)Prose Poetry: An introduction by Paul Hetherington and Cassandra Atherton
by Anders Villani •