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Cassandra Atherton

Cassandra Atherton

Cassandra Atherton is a poet and scholar.  She was a Harvard Visiting Fellow in English and a Visiting Scholar in Comparative Culture at Sophia University, Tokyo. She is writing a book of prose poetry on the atomic bomb with funding from an Australia Council grant.

Cassandra Atherton reviews 'Lucky Ticket' by Joey Bui

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Cassandra Atherton reviews 'Killing Commendatore' by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen

Published in October 2018, no. 405
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Cassandra Atherton reviews 'Rubik' by Elizabeth Tan

Published in November 2017, no. 396
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Cassandra Atherton reviews 'Portable Curiosities' by Julie Koh

Published in August 2016, no. 383
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Cassandra Atherton reviews 'Freeman's' edited by John Freeman

Published in December 2015, no. 377
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Cassandra Atherton reviews 'Feet to the Stars' by Susan Midalia

Published in November 2015, no. 376
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Cassandra Atherton reviews 'The Hazards' by Sarah Holland-Batt, 'Conversations I've Never Had' by Caitlin Maling, 'Here Be Dragons' by Dennis Greene, and 'The Guardians' by Lucy Dougan

Published in October 2015, no. 375
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'Plum(b)', a new poem by Cassandra Atherton

Published in January-February 2015, no. 368
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Breaking Beauty

Published in January-February 2015, no. 368
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Axon: Creative Explorations

Published in October 2014, no. 365
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