John Hawke is a Senior Lecturer, specialising in poetry, at Monash University. His books include Australian Literature and the Symbolist Movement, Poetry and the Trace (co-edited with Ann Vickery), and the volume of poetry Aurelia, which received the 2015 Anne Elder award.

 

 

 

 

Bill Manhire was New Zealand’s inaugural Poet Laureate. He founded the well-known creative writing programme at Victoria University of Wellington. His most recent books are a poetry collection, Some Things to Place in a Coffin (VUP, 2017), and a collection of short fiction, The Stories of Bill Manhire (VUP, 2015). He has also been writing songs with the jazz musician Norman Meehan.

 

 

Jen Webb is Distinguished Professor of Creative Practice at the University of Canberra, and Director of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research in the Faculty of Arts and Design. Her recent work includes the scholarly volumes Researching Creative Writing (Frontinus Press, 2015) and Art and Human Rights: Contemporary Asian Contexts (with Caroline Turner; Manchester UP, 2016), and the poetry volumes Watching the World (with Paul Hetherington; Blemish Books, 2015), Stolen Stories, Borrowed Lines (Mark Time, 2015) and Sentences from the Archive (Recent Work Press, 2016).

John Hawke, Morag Fraser, Nicholas Wong, and Peter RoseNicholas Wong is the winner of the 2018 Peter Porter Poetry Prize, now worth a total of $8,500. This is Australia’s premier prize for an original poem. Louis Klee, the 2017 winner, made the announcement at a special event at fortyfivedownstairs on Monday, 19 March. Nicholas Wong, who flew from Hong Kong to attend the Porter ceremony, receives $5,000. His winning poem is titled ‘101, Taipei’.

This year’s judges – John Hawke, Bill Manhire, Jen Webb – shortlisted poems by five poets – Eileen Chong, Katherine Healy, LK Holt, Tracey Slaughter, and Nicholas Wong. They were chosen from a record field of almost 1,000 poems. Tracey Slaughter’s poem ‘breather’ was placed second. She receives $2,000 – the other three shortlisted poets $500 each.

The shortlisted poems were published in the March issue of Australian Book Review.

About the shortlisted poets

Nicholas Wong (Winner) is the author of Crevasse (Kaya Press, 2015), winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry. He is also the recipient of the Hong Kong Young Artist Award in Literary Arts in 2017. Wong has contributed writing to the radio composition project ‘One of the Two Stories, Or Both’ at Manchester International Festival 2017, and the final exhibition of Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, which will open in May 2018. He is the Vice President of PEN Hong Kong, and teaches at the Education University of Hong Kong.

Tracey Slaughter (Runner up) is a poet and short story writer from Cambridge, New Zealand. Her work has received numerous awards, including the international Bridport Prize (2014), shortlistings for the Manchester Prize in both Poetry (2014) and Fiction (2015), and two Katherine Mansfield Awards. Her latest work, the short story collection deleted scenes for lovers (Victoria University Press) was published to critical acclaim in 2016, and was longlisted for the Ockham NZ Book Awards. She is currently putting the finishing touches to a poetry collection entitled ‘conventional weapons’. She teaches at the University of Waikato, where she edits the literary journal Mayhem.

Eileen Chong is a Sydney poet who was born in Singapore of Chinese descent. She speaks English, Singlish, Mandarin, and Hokkien, but only writes in English. Chong took a Master of Letters at the University of Sydney and was a recipient of an Australian Postgraduate Award for a Doctorate in Creative Arts at Western Sydney University. She eventually left her academic studies to write poetry full-time. Her poetry collections are Burning Rice (2012), Peony (2014), and Painting Red Orchids (2016), all from Pitt Street Poetry.

Katherine Healy is a writer living in the Adelaide Hills. She has worked in education, community health promotion, and counselling. Katherine has published creative non-fiction, short fiction, and poetry. She gained her Master of Letters in Creative Writing from Central Queensland University and credits the rural city of Rockhampton for reawakening her poetic impulse. Katherine is a member of Writers’ SA. She has a poetry collection and a novel as a works-in-progress.

LK Holt lives in Melbourne, where she was born in 1982. Her first collection of poems, Man Wolf Man, won the 2009 Kenneth Slessor Prize in the NSW Premier’s Awards. Patience, Mutiny shared the 2011 Grace Leven Prize for Poetry. Her most recent collection Keeps was longlisted for the 2015 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Her forthcoming collection, System Garden, will be published by Vagabond Press later this year.

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Click here for more information about past winners and to read their poems.

We look forward to offering the Porter Prize again in 2019.

We gratefully acknowledge the long-standing support of Ms Morag Fraser AM, and the support of ABR Patrons. The print is donated by Mr Ivan Durrant in honour of Georges Mora.

Munich to Berlin: Art, music, & literature

Australian Book Review in Germany

June 2–15, 2018

ABR’s third international cultural tour, in partnership with Academy Travel, took us to Germany. Once again the tour was led by Peter Rose, ABR Editor and CEO, and Christopher Menz, ABR Development Consultant and former gallery director. The two week tour commenced in Munich at the beginning of June and then headed north, visiting Bayreuth, Weimar, Dresden, and Berlin where it concluded. It was a great success with a marvellous itinerary that included walking tours and visits to art galleries, museums, and libraries, as well as taking in opera and musical performances, capped off by major literary event at the Australian Embassy in Berlin. The highlights were many but included visits to the Glyptothek, Alte, and Neue Pinakotheks in Munich; Goethe’s House and the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar; and the magnificent collections and buildings of Dresden (including the rebuilt Frauenkirche) and Berlin. Among some great opera performances, we were fortunate hear Simone Young twice, first conducting Janáček’s From the House of the Dead in Munich and then a superlative Tosca, staring Elena Stikhina, in Berlin. Other musical highlights in Berlin were Offenbach’s Bluebeard at the Komische Opera and a concert by the Berlin Philharmonic in Simon Rattle’s final season, which included the world première of Notturno inquieto by Brett Dean. During the final week, the Australian Embassy in Berlin hosted a special literary event ‘Australians in Germany – A Cultural Exchange’ at which writer Anna Funder and artist Brook Andrew were in conversation with Peter Rose. Around one hundred guests enjoyed the stimulating exchange and the Embassy’s hospitality.

Ian Dickson and the official Australian Book Review bus.

 

The tour group outside the Bayreuth Festspielhaus.

 

Peter Rose, Brook Andrew, ambassador Lynette Wood, and Anna Funder at the Berlin embassy.

 

A walking tour through Munich.

 

Peter McLennan sporting exclusive ABR merchandise in Dresden.

 

A final shot of the group.

ABR Index 2016

NB: this index includes only the material published in the print magazine and therefore does not include all the material published by ABR in 2016.

 

2016 Reviews Index

ABBS, Annabel, The Joyce Girl, Hachette, 387/63, Ann-Marie Priest

ACKLAND, Jenny, The Secret Son, Allen & Unwin, 378/47, Katerina Bryant

ADELAIDE, Debra, (ed.), The Simple Act of Reading, Vintage, 378/67, Gillian Dooley

ADUT, Deng Thiak and Ben McKelvey, Songs of a War Boy: My story, Hachette, 387/58, Dilan Gunawardana

AITKIN, Don, The Canonbury Tales, Danbree Books, 380/59, Carol Middleton

ALBISTON, Jordie, Jack & Mollie (& Her), UQP, 381/50, Geoff Page

AMSTERDAM, Steven, The Easy Way Out, Hachette, 384/47, Fiona Wright

ANANIAN-WELSH, Rebecca, Gabrielle Appleby and Andrew Lynch, The Tim Carmody Affair: Australia’s greatest judicial crisis, NewSouth, 386/21, David Rolph

ANDERSON, Deb, Endurance: Australian stories of drought, CSIRO, 380/41, Emily O’Gorman

ARNOTT, Georgina, The Unknown Judith Wright, UWAP, 386/12, Ian Donaldson

ASHBERY, John, Breezeway, Carcanet Press, 378/44, Gig Ryan

ATHERTON, Cassandra, Exhumed, Grand Parade Poets, 380/50, Peter Kenneally

ATTRIDGE, Derek, The Work of Literature, OUP, 378/36, Paul Giles

ATWOOD, Margaret, Hag-seed: The Tempest retold, Penguin, 386/25, Lisa Gorton

BABKENIAN, Vicken and Peter Stanley, Armenia, Australia and the Great War, NewSouth, 384/26, Joy Damousi

BAKER, Jeannine, Australian Women War Reporters: Boer War to Vietnam, NewSouth, 378/48, Susan Sheridan

BAKER, Mark, Phillip Schuler: The remarkable life of one of Australia’s greatest war correspondents, Allen & Unwin, 385/24, Kevin Foster

BARKER, Anthony J. and Michael l. Ondaatje, A Little America in Western Australia: The US naval communication station at North West Cape and the founding of Exmouth, UWAP, 379/57, Seumas Spark

BARNES, Julian, The Noise of Time, Jonathan Cape, 381/55, Andy Lloyd James

BARRON, Stephanie & Sabine Eckmann, New Objectivity: Modern German art in the Weimar Republic, 1919–1933, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 386/48, Christopher Menz

BARRY, Bernice, Georgiana Molloy: The mind that shines, Picador, 382/30, Danielle Clode

BATE, Jonathan, Ted Hughes: The unauthorised biography, Fourth Estate, 378/8, Michael Hofmann

BAUDELAIRE, Charles, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs Du Mal, translated by Jan Owen, Arc Publications, 378/45, Brian Nelson

BAZZANI, Rozzi, Hector, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 378/51, John Rickard

BEARD, Mary, SPQR :A history of Ancient Rome, Profile, 379/19, Christopher Allen

BEATTY, Paul, The Sellout, Bloomsbury, 387/29, James McNamara

BENEBA CLARKE, Maxine, Carrying the World, Hachette, 385/26, Catherine Noske

BENEBA CLARKE, Maxine, The Hate Race: A memoir, Hachette, 385/26, Catherine Noske

BERNSTEIN, Charles, Pitch of Poetry, University of Chicago Press, 385/60, John Hawke

BEVERIDGE, Judith and Susan Ogle (eds), Falling and Flying: Poems on ageing, Brandl & Schlesinger, 379/24, David McCooey

BIARUJIA, Javant, Spelter to Pewter, Cordite Books, 383/66, Lucas Smith

BIRCH, Tony, Broken Teeth, Cordite Books, 383/67, Lucas Smith

BIRNS, Nicholas, Contemporary Australian Literature: A world not yet dead, Sydney University Press, 379/34, Susan Lever

BLACKMAN, Barbara, All My Januaries: Pleasures of life and other essays, UQP, 383/74, Carol Middleton

BLAIN, Georgia, Between a Wolf and a Dog, Scribe, 381/29, Jo Case

BLAINEY, Geoffrey, The Story of Australia’s People: The rise and rise of a new Australia, Viking, 387/9, Brian Matthews

BLOCH, Michael, Closet Queens: Some 20^th Century British politicians, Little, Brown, 378/57, David Rolph

BLOM, Philipp, Fracture: Life and culture in the West 1918-1938, Atlantic Books, 385/21, Peter Morgan

BLOOM, Harold, The Daemon Knows: Literary greatness and the American sublime, OUP, 380/20, James Ley

BOYD, David R., The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing towards a greener future, ECW Press, 379/47, Ian Lowe

BOYD RIOUX, Anne, Constance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of a lady novelist, W. W. Norton & Company Inc. (Wiley), 384/10, Brenda Niall

BRABON, Katherine, The Memory Artist, Allen & Unwin, 383/28, Felicity Plunkett

BRENNAN, Sean, et al, (ed.) Native Title from Mabo to Akiba: A vehicle for change and empowerment, Federation Press, 383/72, Richard Martin

BRIGGS, Rachel, Common Sexual Fantasies, Ruined, Cordite Books, 383/66, Lucas Smith

BROOKS, David, Napoleon’s Roads, UQP, 379/38, Jane Sullivan

 

BROPHY, Kevin, and Jordie Albiston (eds), Prayers of a secular world, Inkerman & Blunt, 378/67, Peter Kenneally

BROWN, James, Firing Line: Australia’s path to war (Quarterly Essay 62), Black Inc, 381/14, Lucas Grainger-Brown

BROWNSTEIN, Carrie, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, Virago, 378/42, Anwen Crawford

BRUMBY, John, The Long Haul: Lessons from public life, MUP, 378/13, John Byron

BRYSON, Fran, In Brazil: Encountering festivals, gods, and heroes in one of the world’s most seductive nations, Scribe, 380/12, Kevin Rabalais

BUTLER, Mark, Advanced Australia: The politics of ageing, MUP, 382/58, Renata Singer

BYRSKI, Liz, In Love and War: Nursing heroes, Fremantle Press, 378/49, Carol Middleton

CAHILL, Michelle, Letter to Pessoa & Other Short Fictions, Giramondo, 387/31, Fiona Hile

CANNANE, Steve, Fair Game: The incredible untold history of Scientology in Australia, ABC Books, 387/47, Fiona Gruber

CARLIN, David and Francesca Rendle-Short (eds.), The Near and the Far: New stories from the Asia-Pacific region, Scribe, 386/24, Sara Savage

CARMODY, Isobelle, The Red Queen, Viking, 379/47, Benjamin Chandler

CARMODY, Sam, The Windy Season, Allen & Unwin, 386/65, Alex Cothren

CARNEY, Shaun, Press Escape, MUP, 387/14, Michael McGirr

CAVANAGH, David, Good Night and Good Riddance: How thirty-five years of John Peel helped to shape modern life, Faber, 379/43, Fiona Hile

CAY JOHNSTON, David, The Making of Donald Trump, Hardie Grant, 385/14, David Smith

CHABON, Michael, Moonglow, Fourth Estate, 387/32, Kevin Rabalais

CHAN, Julius, Playing the Game, UQP, 381/43, Lyndon Megarrity

CHANDLER, Jo, (ed.), The Best Australian Science Writing 2016, NewSouth, 387/52, Ian Gibbins

CLARE, Ruth, Enemy: A daughter’s story of how her father brought the Vietnam War home, Viking, 381/41, Carol Middleton

CLARK, Anna, Private Lives, Public History, MUP, 380/27, Billy Griffiths

COATNEY, Caryn, John Curtin: How he won over the media, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 386/54, Paul Strangio

COETZEE, J.M., The Schooldays of Jesus, Text, 385/29, Sue Kossew

COLE, Teju, Known and Strange Things, Allen & Unwin, 386/56, Sujatha Fernandes

COLMAN, James, The House that Jack Built: Jack Mundey, green bans hero, NewSouth, 385/11, Dennis Altman

COMPTON, Jennifer, Now You Shall Know, Five Islands Press, 379/54, Rose Lucas

COOK, Kenneth, Fear is the Rider, Text, 379/37, Andrew Nette

COSTELLO, Elvis, Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink, Viking, 378/41, Doug Wallen

COX, Jack, Dodge Rose, Text, 381/28, Luke Horton

CRAWFORD, Jen, Koel, Cordite Books, 383/67, Lucas Smith

CRITCHLEY, Simon, On Bowie, Serpent’s Tail, 383/40, Doug Wallen

DAMOUSI, Joy, Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War: Australia’s Greek immigrants after World War II and the Greek civil war, Cambridge University Press, 382/16, Alistair Thomson

DAS, Satyajit, A Banquet of Consequences: Have we consumed our own future?, Viking, 381/39, Reuben Finighan

DAUGHERTY, Tracy, The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion, St Martin’s Press, 383/58, Kevin Rabalais

DAVIDOW, Shelley, Whisperings in the Blood: A memoir, UQP, 381/57, Francesca Sasnaitis

DAVIS, Megan & Marcia Langton (eds.), It’s Our Country: Indigenous arguments for meaningful constitutional recognition and reform, MUP, 386/16, Kevin Bell

DAVISON, Graeme, City Dreamers: The urban imagination in Australia, NewSouth, 386/57, Brian Matthews

DEANE, Joel, Year of the Wasp, Hunter, 387/57, Nathanael Pree

DE LILLO, Don, Zero K, Picador, 382/22, James Ley

DE MOORE, Greg and Ann Westmore, Finding Sanity: John Cade, lithium and the taming of bi-polar disorder, Allen & Unwin, 386/66, James Dunk

DE SOUZA, Hebe, Black British: A novel, Ventura Press, 386/67, Sonia Nair

DILLARD, Annie, The Abundance, Canongate, 384/66, Kevin Rabalais

DONVAN, John and Caren Zucker, In a Different Key: The story of autism, Allen Lane, 382/43, Nick Haslam

DOWN, Jennifer, Our Magic Hour, Text, 380/39, Gretchen Shirm

DRABBLE, Margaret, The Dark Flood Rises, Text, 387/30, Jane Sullivan

DRUMMOND, Sarah, The Sound, Fremantle Press, 384/68, Piri Eddy

DUSINBERRE, Edward, Beethoven for a Later Age: The journey of a string quartet, Faber, 383/47, Paul Kildea

DYER, David, The Midnight Watch, Hamish Hamilton, 381/26, Felicity Plunkett

EAGAR, Kirsty, Summer Skin, Allen & Unwin, 382/62, Ruth Starke

EAGLETON, Terry, Culture, Yale University Press, 385/49, Andrew Fuhrmann

EARLS, Nick, The Wisdom Tree: Five novellas, Inkerman & Blunt, 384/52Anthony Lynch

EGGINTON, William, The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes ushered in the modern world, Bloomsbury, 386/61, Gabriel Garcia Ochoa

ELKIN, Lauren, Flaneuse: Women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London, Chatto & Windus, 386/60, Anna MacDonald

ELLIOTT, Tim, Farewell to the Father, Picador, 384/22, Kári Gíslason

ELLIS, Bob, compiled by Anne Brooksbank, Bob Ellis: In his own words, Black Inc., 386/63, Jan McGuinness

ENFIELD, N.J., The Utility of Meaning: What words mean and why, OUP, 378/29, Kate Burridge

ERDRICH, Louise, LaRose, Corsair, 383/29, Sarah Myles

ERRINGTON, Wayne and Peter van Onselen, Battleground: Why the Liberal Party shirtfronted Tony Abbott, MUP, 379/16, Frank Bongiorno

FALKINER, Suzanne, Mick: A life of Randolph Stow, UWAP, 379/13, Kerryn Goldsworthy

FARRELL, Fiona, The Skinny Louie Book, Penguin, 386/23, Kevin Rabalais

FERGUSON, Sarah with Patricia Drum, The Killing Season Uncut, MUP, 383/12, Neal Blewett

FISCHER, Tim, Maestro John Monash: Australia’s greatest citizen general, Monash University Publishing, 378/58, John Ramsland

FISH, Stanley, Think Again: Contrarian reflections on life, culture, politics, religion, law, and education, Princeton University Press, 379/15, Glyn Davis

FITZPATRICK, Sheila, On Stalin’s Team: The years of living dangerously in Soviet politics, MUP, 380/9, Mark Edele

FOULCHER, John, 101 Poems, Pitt Street Poetry, 382/55, Peter Kenneally

FRAILLON, Zana, The Bone Sparrow, Hachette, 387/63, Margaret Robson Kett

FRAME, Tom (ed.), Anzac Day Then and Now, UNSW Press, 382/21, Seumas Spark

FRAME, Tom (ed.), Moral Injury: Unseen wounds in an Age of Barbarism, UNSW Press, 378/54, Damian Cox

FREEBURY, Jane, Dancing to His Song: The singular cinema of Rolf de Heer, Currency Press, 382/46, Jake Wilson

FREEMAN, Damien & Shireen Morris (eds.), The Forgotten People: Liberal and conservative approaches to recognising indigenous peoples, MUP, 386/16, Kevin Bell

FRENCH, Jackie and Bruce Whatley, Cyclone, Scholastic, 381/58, Margaret Robson Kett

FREW, Peggy, Hope Farm, Scribe, 378/27, Patrick Allington

GAME, David, D. H. Lawrence’s Australia: Anxiety at the edge of empire, Routledge, 382/27, Paul Giles

GARDNER, Scot, The Way We Roll, Allen & Unwin, 382/62, Ruth Starke

GARRETT, Peter, Big Blue Sky: A memoir, Allen & Unwin, 378/61, Dennis Altman

GARNER, Helen, Everywhere I Look, Text, 381/19, Jill Jones

GARNETT, Tony, The Day the Music Died, Constable, 387/53, Michael Shmith

GEE, Maurice, The Burning Boy, Penguin, 386/23, Kevin Rabalais

GERGES, Fawaz A., Isis: A history, Princeton University Press, 387/15, Colin Wight

GERSTÄCKER, Friedrich, Australia: A German traveller in the age of gold, Wakefield Press, 385/15, Christopher Menz

GHOSH, Ronojoy, No Place Like Home, Random House, 381/58, Margaret Robson Kett

GILDEA, Robert, Fighters in the Shadows: A new history of the French Resistance, Harvard University Press, 382/54, Peter Monteath

GILLIVER, Peter, The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, OUP, 387/49, Bruce Moore

GIROUD, Vincent, Nicolas Nabokov: A life in freedom and music, OUP, 380/17, Michael Morley

GLEASON, Toby (ed.), Conversations in Jazz: The Ralph J. Gleason interviews, Yale University Press, 386/30, Des Cowley

GLEESON, Madeline, Offshore: Behind the wire on Manus and Nauru, NewSouth, 383/9, Peter Mares

GODWIN, Jane and Davina Bell, illus. by Freya Blackwood, Hattie Helps Out, Allen & Unwin, 381/58, Margaret Robson Kett

GOETZMANN, William N., Money Changes Everything: How finance made civilisation possible, Princeton University Press (Footprint), 384/27, Peter Acton

GOLDSWORTHY, Peter, The Rise of the Machines and other Love Poems, Pitt Street Poetry, 379/55, Philip Harvey

GOPNIK, Alison, The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the new science of child development tells us about the relationship between parents and children, Bodley Head, 387/51, Tim Smartt

GRACE, Patricia, Potiki, Penguin, 386/23, Kevin Rabalais

GRAYLING, A.C., The Challenge of Things: Thinking through troubled times, Bloomsbury, 380/53, Simon Caterson

GREDER, Armin, Australia to Z, Allen & Unwin, 381/58, Margaret Robson Kett

GREENWELL, Garth, What Belongs to You, Picador, 382/50, Dion Kagan

GREHAN, Helena and Edward Scheer, William Yang: Stories of love and death, NewSouth, 381/57, Jay Daniel Thompson

GRESTE, Juris, et al., Freeing Peter: How an ordinary family fought an extraordinary battle, Viking, 386/55, Kate Ryan

GRIFFITHS, Tom, The Art of Time Travel: Historians and their craft, Black Inc, 383/41, Mark McKenna

GWYNNE, Joel (ed.), Transgressions in Anglo-American Cinema: Gender, sex and the deviant body, Columbia University Press, 386/29, Dion Kagan

HACKING, Juliet, Lives of the Great Photographers, Thames & Hudson, 379/44, Helen Ennis

HAIGH, Gideon, Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the shot that changed cricket, Hamish Hamilton, 387/62, Bernard Whimpress

HALLIDAY, Claire, Things my Mother Never Taught Me, Echo Publishing, 382/61, Daniel Juckes

HALLORAN, Jacinta, The Science of Appearances, Scribe, 386/27, Fiona Wright

HAMMER, Langdon, James Merrill: Life and art, Knopf, 379/60, Ian Dickson

HANCOCK, Ian, Tom Hughes QC: A cab on the rank, Federation Press, 383/59, Peter Heerey

HARPER, Jane, The Dry, Pan Macmillan, 382/51, Chris Flynn

HARRIS, James A., Hume: An intellectual biography, Cambridge University Press, 385/55, Janna Thompson

HARRISON, Andrew, The Life of D.H. Lawrence, Wiley-Blackwell, 387/56, Shannon Burns

HASKELL, Dennis, Ahead of Us, Fremantle Press, 382/55, Peter Kenneally

HATHORN, Libby illus. by Phil Lesnie, A Soldier, a Dog and a Boy, Lothian, 381/58, Margaret Robson Kett

HAZAREESINGH, Sudhir, How the French Think: An affectionate portrait of an intellectual people, Allen Lane, 380/58, Colin Nettelbeck

HAZZARD, Shirley, We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected essays, Columbia University Press, 381/12, Brian Matthews

HEATHCOTE, Christopher, Inside the Art Market: Australia’s galleries: A history 1956-1976, Thames & Hudson, 386/49, Francesca Sasnaitis

HENDERSON, Gerard, Santamaria: A most unusual man, Miegunyah, 378/18, Michael McGirr

HERBORN, Daniel, You’re the Kind of Girl I Write Songs About, HarperCollins, 378/63, Laura Elvery

HIGHLEY, Kerry, Dancing in my Dreams: Confronting the spectre of polio, Monash University Publishing, 379/59, Paul Morgan

HILLS, Rachel, The Sex Myth: The gap between our fantasies and reality, Viking, 378/55, Dion Kagan

HILMES, Oliver, tr. Stewart Spencer, Franz Liszt: Musician, superstar, celebrity, Yale University Press, 387/46, David Larkin

HOLLAND, Patrick, One, Transit Lounge, 382/58, Dean Biron

HUGHES, John, Asylum, UWAP, 382/23, Lucas Smith

JACOBSON, Howard, Shylock is My Name, Hogarth Shakespeare, 384/50, Andrea Goldsmith

JACOBSON, Megan, Yellow, Penguin, 382/62, Ruth Starke

JAMES, Clive, Play All: A binge-watcher’s notebook, Yale University Press, 386/38, Peter Goldsworthy

JAMES, John Stanley, The Vagabond Papers, Monash University Publishing, 384/64, John Arnold

JENNINGS, Rebecca, Unnamed Desires: A Sydney lesbian history, Monash University Publishing, 378/56, Sylvia Martin

JONES, Jill, Breaking the Days, Whitmore Press, 380/50, Peter Kenneally

JONES, Lloyd, The Book of Fame, Penguin, 386/23, Kevin Rabalais

JOOSTEN, Melanie, A Long Time Coming: Essays on old age, Scribe, 384/65, Patrick Allington

JORDAN, Toni, Our Tiny, Useless Hearts, Text, 382/27, Josephine Taylor

JOSE, Jane, Places Women Make: Unearthing the contribution of women to our cities, Wakefield Press, 381/57, Gillian Dooley

KAMINSKY, Leah, The Waiting Room, Vintage, 378/24, Naama Amram

KANAKE, Sarah, Sing Fox to Me, Affirm Press, 380/52, Alex Cothren

KAPLAN, James, Sinatra: The chairman, Sphere, 378/39, Michael Shmith

KAVAN, Anna, Ice, Penguin, 386/23, Kevin Rabalais

KEALING, Bob, Life of the Party: How the remarkable Brownie Wise built and lost a Tupperware party empire, Affirm Press, 384/29, Rachel Fuller

KENT, Hannah, The Good People, Picador, 385/31, Amy Baillieu

KIEZA, Grantlee, Monash: The soldier who shaped Australia, ABC Books, 378/58, John Ramsland

KNEEN, Krissy, Eating My Grandmother: A grief cycle, UQP, 379/54, Rose Lucas

KNIGHT, Kankawa Nagarra Olive, The Bauhinia Tree: The life of Kankawa Nagarra Olive Knight, UWAP, 379/63, Josephine Taylor

KNOX, Malcolm, The Keepers: The players at the heart of Australian cricket, Viking, 378/66, Bernard Whimpress

KOH, Julie, Portable Curiosities, UQP, 383/44, Cassandra Atherton

LADD, Mike, Invisible Mending, Wakefield Press, 387/57, Nathanael Pree

LAING, Olivia, Lonely City: Adventures in the art of being alone, Canongate, 384/71, Alexandra Mathew

LAMBERT, Andrew, Crusoe’s Island: Curious history of pirates, castaways and madness, Faber, 387/35, Danielle Clode

LANE, Elizabeth et.al (eds) Outback Penguin: Richard Lane’s Barwell diaries, The Lane Press, 381/13, Suzanne Falkiner

LANGFORD, Martin, Ground, Puncher & Wattman, 379/54, Rose Lucas

LAWRENCE, Anthony, Headwaters, Pitt Street Poetry, 384/68, Dennis Haskell

LEADER, Zachary (ed.), On Life-Writing, OUP, 380/22, Richard Freadman

LEE, Micheline, The Healing Party, Black Inc, 383/64, Naama Amram

LEIGH, Julia, Avalanche: A love story, Hamish Hamilton, 383/74, Rose Lucas

LERNER, Ben, The Hatred of Poetry, Text, 383/69, David McCooey

LEVY, Ariel (ed.), The Best American Essays 2015, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 379/22, James McNamara

LEVY, Emanuel, Gay Directors, Gay Films?Pedro Almodovar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters, Columbia University Press, 381/31, Dion Kagan

LINDSEY, Keira, The Convict’s Daughter, Allen & Unwin, 382/61, Sophia Barnes

LOHREY, Amanda (ed.), The Best Australian Stories 2015, Black Inc., 378/16, Josephine Taylor

LOOSLEY, Stephen, Machine Rules: A political primer, MUP, 379/58, Joel Deane

LOUNSBURY, Lynnette, We Ate the Road Like Vultures, Inkerman & Blunt, 381/27, Alex Cothren

LOVITT, Zane, Black Teeth, Text, 383/64, Dean Biron

LOWE, Ian, The Lucky Country? Reinventing Australia, UQP, 383/43, Peter Christoff

MCCAMISH, Thornton, Our Man Elsewhere: In search of Alan Moorehead, Black Inc., 384/11, Robin Gerster

MCDONNELL, Michael A., Masters of Empire, 381/42, Glenn Moore

MCFARLANE, Fiona, The High Places, Hamish Hamilton, 378/25, Sarah Holland-Batt

MCLEAN, Ian, Rattling Spears: A history of Australian Indigenous art, NewSouth, 386/50, Billy Griffiths

MCNAB, Duncan, Waterfront: Graft, corruption and violence: Australia’s crime frontier from 1788 to now, Hachette, 381/44, Simon Caterson

MCPHEE, Peter, Liberty or Death: The French revolution, Yale University Press (Footprint), 384/23, Robert Aldrich

MACDONALD, Helen, H is for Hawk, Vintage, 378/67, Daniel Juckes

MACRIS, Anthony, Inexperience and Other Stories, UWAP, 387/60, Chris Flynn

MAGEE, Bryan, Ultimate Questions, Princeton University Press (Footprint), 383/75, Craig Taylor

MAGUIRE, Emily, An Isolated Incident, Picador, 380/59, Jay Daniel Thompson

MAHOOD, Kim, Position Doubtful: Mapping landscapes and memories, Scribe, 384/21, Michael Winkler

MAIDEN, Jennifer, The Fox Petition, Giramondo, 380/50, Peter Kenneally

MARCHETTA, Melina, Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil, Viking, 387/61, Agnes Nieuwenhuizen

MARES, Peter, Not Quite Australian: How temporary migration is changing the nation, Text, 386/22, Maria O’Sullivan

MARTIN, Sylvia, Ink in Her Veins: The troubled life of Aileen Palmer, UWAP, 382/29, Susan Lever

MARTIN, Toby, Yodelling Boundary Riders: Country music in Australia since the 1920s, Lyrebird Press, 379/63, Doug Wallen

MAYER, Jane, Dark Money: The hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical Right, Scribe, 385/13, James McNamara

MEGALOGENIS, George, Australia’s Second Chance: What our history tells us about our future, Hamish Hamilton, 381/21, Mark Triffitt

MEGALOGENIS, George, Balancing Act: Australia between recession and renewal (Quarterly Essay 61), Black Inc., 381/21, Mark Triffitt

MEKAS, Jonas, Movie Journal: The rise of New American Cinema 1959-1971, Columbia University Press (Footprint), 384/55, Philippa Hawker

MENZIES-PIKE, Catriona, The Long Run, Affirm, 380/21, Gillian Dooley

MICHAU-CRAWFORD, Michelle, Leaving Elvis and Other Stories, UWAP, 379/35, Francesca Sasnaitis

MILLER, Alex, The Simplest Words: A storyteller’s journey, Allen & Unwin, 379/62, Brenda Walker

MILLER, Joseph C.(ed.), The Princeton companion to Atlantic history, Princeton University Press, 380/54, Norman Etherington

MITCHELL, Adrian, The Profilist: The notebooks of Ethan Dibble, Wakefield Press, 378/47, James Dunk

MODIANO, Patrick, translated by Mark Polizzotti, After the Circus, Yale, 381/25 Colin Nettelbeck

MOHAMAD, Goenawan, translated by Jennifer Lindsay, In Other Words: Forty years of essays, NewSouth, 384/67, Satendra Nandan

MOLLOY, Tim, Mr Unpronouceable and the Infinity of Nightmares, Milk Shadow Books, 384/71, Max Sipowicz

MOORE, Bruce, (ed.), The Australian National Dictionary, Second Edition, OUP, 385/8, Kate Burridge

MORDDEN, Ethan, On Sondheim: An opinionated guide, OUP, 381/33, Ian Dickson

MORRISON, Zoe, Music and Freedom, Vintage Books, 383/48, Marie O’Rourke

MURPHY, John, Evatt: A life, NewSouth, 386/8, Neal Blewett

NASHER, Claire, Lake, Cordite Books, 383/66, Lucas Smith

NICHOLAS, Louise, The List of Last Remaining, Five Islands Press, 385/59, Philip Harvey

NICHOLL, Freda Marnie, The Amazing Mrs Livesey, Allen & Unwin, 382/61, Dina Ross

NIKIFORUK, Andrew, Slick Water: Fracking and one insider’s stand against the world’s most powerful industry, Greystone Books, 379/46, Ruth A. Morgan

NOGRADY, Bianca, (ed.), The Best Australian Science Writing, NewSouth, 378/17, Danielle Clode

O’BRIEN, Edna, The Little Red Chairs, Allen & Unwin, 379/36, Fiona Gruber

O’BRIEN, Kerry, Keating, Allen & Unwin, 378/11, James Walter

O’FLYNN, Mark, The Last Days of Ava Langdon, UQP, 383/31, Suzanne Falkiner

O’NEILL, Ryan, Their Brilliant Careers: The fantastic lives of sixteen extraordinary Australian writers, Black Inc, 383/43, David Thomas Henry Wright

OSBORNE, Don, Pentridge: Behind the bluestone walls, Echo Publishing, 380/57, David Nichols

PACAT, C.S., Kings Rising, Viking, 382/62, Crusader Hillis

PAGE, Geoff, Gods and Uncles, Pitt Street Poetry, 384/69, Dennis Haskell

PAGE, Tony, Dawn the Proof, Hybird Publishers, 384/68, Dennis Haskell

PALMER, Sheridan, Hegel’s Owl: The life of Bernard Smith, Power Publications, 383/20, Ian Donaldson

PANG, Alvin and Ravi Shankar, Union: 15 years of Drunken Boat, 50 years of writing from Singapore, Ethos Books and Drunken Boat, 379/33, Sara Savage

PATCHETT, Ann, Commonwealth, HarperCollins, 385/32, Francesca Sasnaitis

PATRICK, Aaron, Credlin & Co: How the Abbott government destroyed itself, Black Inc., 382/8, Lucas Grainger-Brown

PIEPER, Liam, The Toymaker, Hamish Hamilton, 383/64, Laurie Steed

PIERCE, Jessica, Run, Spot, Run: The ethics of keeping pets, University of Chicago Press, 385/57, Simon Coghlan

PIERRE, DBC, Release the Bats: Writing your way out of it, Allen & Unwin, 385/27, Jen Webb

PIKETTY, Thomas, Chronicles on Our Troubled Times, Viking, 383/16, Simon Tormey

PLAMPER, Jan, The History of Emotions: An introduction, OUP, 380/55, Stephanie Trigg

PLANTE, David, Worlds Apart: A memoir, Bloomsbury, 378/60, Ian Britain

PLOZZA, Shivaun, Frankie, Penguin, 382/63, Ruth Starke

POPE, Alexander ed. by Tom Jones, An Essay on Man, Princeton University Press, 387/59, Robert Phiddian

PORTER, Max, Grief is the thing with feathers, Faber, 379/34, Daniel Juckes

PORTER, Peter, Chorale at the Crossing, Picador, 381/9, Peter Goldsworthy

PRETTY, Ron, Creating Poetry, Pitt Street Poetry, 379/53, Judith Beveridge

PROULX, Annie, Barkskins, Fourth Estate, 383/26, James Bradley

RABIN, Sean, Wood Green, Giramondo, 386/67, Dilan Gunawardana

RACE, Hugo, Road Series, Transit Lounge, 382/42, Doug Wallen

RAJA, Christopher, The Burning Elephant, Giramondo, 381/58, Fiona Dorrell

REED, Marcia (ed.), The Edible Monument: The art of food for festivals, Getty Research Institute, 380/30, Christopher Menz

REYNOLDS, Henry, Unnecessary Wars, NewSouth, 382/19, Peter Stanley

RID, Thomas, Rise of the Machines: The lost history of cybernetics, Scribe, 385/63, Gary N. Lines

RIEFF, David, In Praise of Forgetting: Historical memory and its ironies, Yale, 382/11, Andrea Goldsmith

ROBERTS, Gregory David, The Mountain Shadow, Picador, 378/28, Brigid Magner

ROBERTS, Tom D.C., Before Rupert: Keith Murdoch and the birth of a dynasty, UQP, 378/50, Paul Morgan

ROBINSON, Suzanne (ed.), Passions of a Mighty Heart: Selected letters of G.W.L. Marshall-Hall, Lyrebird Press, 383/73, John Arnold

ROTHWELL, Nicolas, Quicksilver, Text, 387/39, Andrew Fuhrmann

ROWE, Josephine, A Loving, Faithful Animal, UQP, 381/56, Kate Holden

ROYAL, Autumn, She Woke & Rose, Cordite Books, 383/66, Lucas Smith

RYAN, Brendan, Small Town Standing, Hunter Poets, 382/55, Peter Kenneally

SALOM, Philip, Waiting, Puncher & Wattman, 380/38, Michael McGirr

SANCHEZ-ANDRADE, Cristina Tr. by Samuel Rutter, The Winterlings, Scribe, 387/63, Gabriel Garcia Ochoa

SANDERSON, Rena, Sandra Spanier, and Robert W. Trogdon, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 3: 1926—1929, Cambridge University Press, 383/39, James McNamara

SANDS, Philippe, East West Street: On the origins of genocide and crimes against humanity, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 385/19, Neil Kaplan

SANT, Andrew, How to Proceed: Essays, Puncher & Wattmann, 385/59, Philip Harvey

SANTAGATA, Marco, tr. by Richard Dixon, Dante: The story of his life, Harvard University Press, 381/20, Diana Glenn

SAVAGE, Jon, 1966: The year the decade exploded, Faber, 385/44, Anwen Crawford

SAVAGE, Jon, England’s Dreaming: Sex Pistols and punk rock, Faber, 385/44, Anwen Crawford

SAVANADASA, Rajith, Ruins, Hachette, 385/34, Claudia Hyles

SAVVA, Niki, The Road to Ruin: How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin destroyed their own government, Scribe, 382/8, Lucas Grainger-Brown

SCHROEDER RODRIGUEZ, Paul A. Latin American Cinema: A comparative history, University of California Press, 387/43, Sarah McDonald

SCHWARTZ, Baba, The May Beetles: My first twenty years, Black Inc., 382/18, Gillian Dooley

SEBAG MONTEFIORE, Simon, The Romanovs: 1613-1918, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 384/30, Mark Edele

SERONG, Jock, The Rules of Backyard Cricket, Text, 385/33, Craig Billingham

SETH, Vikram, Collected Poems, Weidenfield & Nicolson, 383/68, Stephen Edgar

SHERIDAN, Susan, The Fiction of Thea Astley, Cambria Press, 387/55, Kerryn Goldsworthy

SIMMS, Brendan, Britain’s Europe: A thousand years of conflict and cooperation, Allen Lane, 384/8, Glyn Davis

SIMPSON, Inga, Where the Trees Were, Hachette, 380/40, Rhyll McMaster

SINGER, Peter, Ethics in the Real World: 86 brief essays on things that matter, Text, 386/64, Ben Brooker

SISMAN, Adam, John Le Carre: The biography, Bloomsbury, 380/14, Barney Zwartz

SMEE, Sebastian, The Art of Rivalry: Four friendships, betrayals, and breakthroughs in modern art, Text, 386/40, Miriam Cosic

SMITH, Dominic, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Allen & Unwin, 382/24, Kerryn Goldsworthy

SNELL, Danny, Seagull, Working Title Press, 381/58, Margaret Robson Kett

SOLKIN, David H. Art in Britain 1660-1815, Yale University Press (Footprint), 384/63, Patrick McCaughey

SOMETIMES, Alicia and Nicole Hayes (eds.), From the Outer: Footy like you’ve never heard it, Black Inc., 382/60, Patrick Allington

SPARGO-RYAN, Anna, The Paper House, Picador, 384/55, Thuy On

STANLEY, Jason, How Propaganda Works, Princeton University Press, 380/52, Adrian Walsh

STEAD, C.K., The Singing Whakapapa, Penguin, 386/24, Kevin Rabalais

STRANGIO, Paul, Paul ‘t Hart, and James Walter, Settling the Office: The Australian prime ministership from Federation to Reconstruction, Miegunyah Press, 381/23, Stephen Mills

STRAW, Leigh, The Worst Woman in History: The life and crimes of Kate Leigh, NewSouth, 384/71, Rachel Fuller

STREHLOW, T.G.H., Journey to Horseshoe Bend, Giramondo, 378/64, Simon Caterson

SULLIVAN, Rosemary, Stalin’s Daughter: The extraordinary and tumultuous life of Svetlana Alliluyeva, Fourth Estate, 382/14, Sheila Fitzgerald

SULWAY, Nike, Dying in the First Person, Transit Lounge384/51, Shannon Burns

TAN, Shaun, The Singing Bones, Allen & Unwin, 378/61, Margaret Robson Kett

TANNER, Lindsay, Comfort Zone, Scribe, 382/49, Joel Deane

TAYLOR, Cory, Dying: A memoir, Text, 382/41, Rachel Robertson

TEMPEST, Kate, The Bricks That Built the Houses, Bloomsbury, 384/69, Barnaby Smith

TESARSCH, John, The Last Will and Testament of Henry Hoffman, Affirm Press, 378/47, Craig Billingham

THORNELL, Kristel, On the Blue Train, Allen & Unwin, 386/67, Francesca Sasnaitis

TODES, Daniel P., Ivan Pavlov: A Russian life in science, OUP, 387/50, Nick Haslam

TOMOFF, Kiril, Virtuosi Abroad: Soviet music and imperial competition during the early Cold War,1945–1958,Cornell University Press 386/33, Sheila Fitzpatrick

ULLRICH, Volker, translated by Jefferson Chase, Hitler: A biography, Volume I: Ascent, 1889-1939, Bodley Head, 385/23, Miriam Cosic

VADJA, Frank, Saved to Remember: Raoul Wallenberg, Budapest 1944 and after, Monash University Publishing, 385/62, Agnes Nieuwenhuizen

VAN NEERVEN, Ellen, Comfort Food, UQP, 387/57, Nathanael Pree

VAN SCHILT, Stephanie, Elena Savage, and Gillian Terzis, The Lifted Brow: No.28, The Lifted Brow, 379/63, Joseph Rubbo

VAN VELZEN, Marianne,Call of the Outback: The remarkable story of Ernestine Hill, nomad, adventurer and trailblazer, Allen & Unwin, 380/13, Susan Sheridan

VARGA, Susan, Rupture: Poems 2012-2015, UWA Publishing, 385/60, Philip Harvey

VICKERS, Brian, The One King Lear, Harvard University Press, 385/42, David McInnis

WARD, Charlie, A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji struggle after the walk-off, Monash University Publishing, 386/13, Timothy Neale

WAXMAN, Dov, Trouble in the Tribe, Princeton University Press (Footprint), 383/17, Ilana Snyder

WEBSTER, Amanda, A Tear in the Soul, NewSouth, 387/54, Rachel Robertson

WESLEY, Michael, Restless Continent: Wealth, rivalry and Asia’s new geopolitics, Black Inc., 378/53, Finian Cullity

WEYLAND, Marcel, The Boy on the Tricycle, Brandl & Schlesinger, 382/18, Gillian Dooley

WHEELER, Belinda, (ed.), A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott, Camden House, 384/19, Bernadette Brennan

WILDING, Michael, Growing Wild, Arcadia, 383/71, Brian Matthews

WILLIAMS, Robyn, In Love with Betty the Crow: The first 40 years of ABC RN’s The Science Show, ABC Books, 381/38, Ashley Hay

WILLIAMSON, Geordie, The Best Australian Essays 2015, Black Inc., 379/22, James McNamara

WILSON, A.N., The Book of the People: How to read the Bible, Atlantic (Allen & Unwin), 383/74, Simon Caterson

WILSON, A.N., Resolution, Atlantic Books, 386/64, Ann-Marie Priest

WILSON, Ashleigh, Brett Whiteley: Art, life and the other thing, Text, 384/13, Simon Caterson

WILSON, Dominique, That Devil’s Madness, Transit Lounge, 380/59, Marie O’Rourke

WILSON, Jake, Mad Dog Morgan, Australian Screen Classics, 378/40 Brian McFarlane

WILSON, Peter H. The Holy Roman Empire: A thousand years of Europe’s history, Allen Lane, 387/33, Christopher Allen

WINCH, Tara June, After the Carnage, UQP, 384/49, Kerryn Goldsworthy

WINTON, Tim, The Boy Behind the Curtain, Hamish Hamilton, 387/11, Peter Craven

WOOD, Charlotte, The Writer’s Room: Conversations about writing, Allen & Unwin, 385/27, Jen Webb

WOOLETT, Elizabeth, The Love of a Bad Man, Scribe, 386/50, Dina Ross

WOTHERSPOON, Garry, Gay Sydney: A history, NewSouth, 381/45, Robert Reynolds

WRIGHT, Fiona, Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on hunger, Giramondo, 378/65, Emily Laidlaw

WRIGHT, Michelle, Fine, Allen & Unwin, 385/59, Alice Bishop

WULF, Andrea, The Invention of Natures: The adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of science, John Murray, 379/18, Paul Giles

YEKELCHYK, Serhy, The Conflict in Ukraine: What everyone needs to know, OUP, 381/40,

Mark Edele

ZABLE, Arnold, The Fighter, Text, 382/57, Michael McGirr

 

2016 Features Index

 ABR ARTS

CHRISTOFIS, Lee, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 381/30

CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Romeo and Juliet, 383/46

CRAWFORD, Anwen, Love and Friendship, 384/54

GOLDSMITH, Andrea, Carol, 379/39

McFARLANE, Brian, The Light Between Oceans, 387/42

McFARLANE, Brian, Sunset Song, 385/41

NETTE, Andrew, Goldstone, 383/45

ROSE, Peter, The Lady in the Van, 380/34

WILKINS, Kim, The Daughter, 380/36

WILSON, Jake, Joe Cinque’s Consolation, 386/28

ZWARTZ, Barney, Spotlight, 379/41

FRASER, Morag, Missa Solemnis, 385/46

HALLIWELL, Michael, Sydney Opera House – The Opera (The Eighth Wonder), 387/44

ROSE, Peter, Tristan und Isolde, 386/31

GUNAWARDANA, Dilan, Dark Mofo, 383/49

MENZ, Christopher, Tom Roberts, 378/37

ROBSON KETT, Margaret, Making the Australian Quilt, 384/61

WILSON, Jake, The Kettering Incident, 385/43

BROOKER, Ben, Things I Know to Be True, 382/44

BYRNE, Tim, Joy Ride, 379/40

BYRNE, Tim, Picnic at Hanging Rock, 380/37

DICKSON, Ian, Twelfth Night, 384/60

FUHRMANN, Andrew, The Mill on the Floss, 384/62

FUHRMANN, Andrew, Romeo and Juliet, 381/32

FUHRMANN, Andrew, Shit, 382/39

GOLVAN, Colin, Arcadia, 379/42

HALLIWELL, Michael, Cloudstreet, 382/47

McFARLANE, Brian, Othello, 383/51

ROSE, Peter, King Lear, 378/31

 

ROSE, Jeremy, Iron in the Blood: A musical adaptation of Robert Hughes’s The Fatal Shore, ABC Classics, 395/44, Geoff Page

 

PRIZES

ABR ELIZABETH JOLLEY SHORT STORY PRIZE SHORTLIST

LAWRENCE, Anthony, 'Ash', 383/23

ROWE, Josephine, 'Glisk', 383/32

TEL, Jonathan, 'The Water Calligrapher’s Women', 383/61

CALIBRE ESSAY PRIZE 2016

WINKLER, Michael, ‘The Great Red Whale’, 382/31

PETER PORTER POETRY PRIZE

DISNEY, Dan, ‘…a passing shower?’, 379/30

ELVEY, Anne, ‘Prelude to a Voice’, 379/32

GLUSKIN STONESTREET, Lisa, ‘Rage to order’, 379/29

JOY, Amanda, ‘Tailings’, 379/26

THOMSON, Campbell, ‘Lament for ‘Cape’ Kennedy’, 379/27

 

COMMENTARY

FALKINER, Suzanne, ‘Randolph Stow’s Harwich’, 378/20

GENONI, Paul, ‘Hydra as Intimate Theatre’ 387/36

GOLVAN, Colin, ‘The God of Cheaper Prices’, 386/19

JOSE, Nicholas, ‘Bobbin Up by Dorothy Hewett’, 385/36

MOORE, Bruce, The new Australian National Dictionary, 383/65

NETTELBECK, Colin, ‘Letter from Paris’, 382/52

RABALAIS, Kevin, ‘Letter from New Orleans’, 378/33

RICKARD, John, ‘On John Foster’, 381/47

ROLPH, David, ‘The Debate over 18C’, 385/16

ROSE, Peter, ABR in the United States, 386/34

SILCOX, Beejay, ‘Letter from America’, 384/15

 

FELLOWSHIPS

AIKEN, Michael, ‘Satan Repentant’, ABR Laureate’s Fellowship, 383/52

ATKINSON, Alan, ‘How Do We Live With Ourselves? The Australian national conscience’, ABR RAFT Fellowship, 384/34

 

INTERVIEWS

CRITIC OF THE MONTH

McNAMARA, James, 385/64

FUTURE TENSE

HAMILTON, Debi, 382/64

MICHAU-CRAWFORD, Michelle, 378/46

GREEN ROOM

SHMITH, Michael with Brett Dean, ‘To set or not to set’, 384/57

 OPEN PAGE

GRIFFITHS, Tom, 383/76

JORDAN, Toni, 381/60

JUCHAU, Mireille, 378/68

MEGALOGENIS, George, 380/60

MODJESKA, Drusilla, 379/64

SINGER, Peter, 387/64

WRIGHT, Fiona, 384/72

 POET OF THE MONTH

ALBISTON, Jordie, 381/49

HOLLAND-BATT, Sarah, 385/58

JONES, Jill, 382/56

MacCARTER, Kent, 379/56

MANHIRE, Bill, 386/68

PAGE, Geoff, 384/70

 STAGE DOOR

SHMITH, Michael, ‘Bread and Circuses: Leo Schofield speaks to Michael Shmith about his illustrious career as “Australia’s Diaghilev”’, 380/31

 

POETRY

POEMS

BISHOP, Judith, ‘The Grey Parrot’, 386/20

BISHOP, Judith, ‘Home’, 386/20

COOKE, Stuart, ‘Francis Bacon Created Australian Literature’, 385/47

HAWKE, John, ‘Zero Degrees’, 386/41

HOLLAND-BATT, Sarah, ‘The Changing Room’ and ‘The Worst of It’, 385/18

JONES, Jill, ‘Alarms’, 385/30

KINSELLA, John, ‘The Sizzler at York Agricultural Show’, 387/34

LAUGHTON, Verity, ‘Kangarilla, Summer, 2016’, 380/26

LE PLASTRIER, Jacinta, ‘Neuroward2East’, 378/30

McCOOEY, David, ‘Mick and Bianca Jagger, Newlyweds’, 382/55

MALING, Caitlin, ‘Deep Knowledge’, 387/16

MANHIRE, Bill, ‘Indexing Emily’, 384/24

OLDS, Sharon, ‘Woodwind Ode’, 382/26

RYAN, Tracy, ‘Smartraveller’, 384/32

TAKOLANDER, Maria, ‘Déjà vu’, 378/14

ZIGURAS, Jakob, ‘Excerpt from “Doors, Stairwells, Courtyards”’, 380/46

 STATES OF POETRY

ABBS, Carolyn, ‘Surely Someone’, 380/48

ANDERSON, Susie, ‘time conquers all’, 381/52

BOLTON, Ken, ‘Salute’, 379/52

BROWN, Pam, ‘Ascriptions’, 381/53

COLEMAN, Aidan, ‘Secondary’, 379/50

DINIC, Jelena, ‘The Silence of Siskins’, 379/50

FITCH, Toby, ‘Democrazy’, 381/51

GROOM, Kia, ‘Alice at Last’, 380/48

JONES, Jill, ‘Bent’, 379/51

KERSHAW, Graham, ‘Perenjori Morning’, 380/49

LLEWELLYN, Kate, ‘Oxytocin’, 379/51

MALOUF, David, ‘Late Poem’, 381/16

MALOUF, David, ‘Pyrra’, 381/16

MALOUF, David, ‘Visitation on Myrtle Street’, 381/17

MIDDLETON, Kate, ‘Daybreak’, 381/52

PAPERTALK-GREEN, Charmaine, ‘Yamatji Culture’, 380/49

QUINTON, J.P., ‘Reading the Landscape’, 380/48

SULLIVAN, Thom, ‘In Camera’, 379/52

TEMPERTON, Barbara, ‘Foxes’ Lair’, 380/48

WRIGHT, Fiona, ‘After Mutability’, 381/52

 

READING AUSTRALIA

COSIC, Miriam, Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch, 380/42

FRASER, Morag, Alex Miller’s Journey to the Stone Country, 381/34

 

STORY

KENNEDY, Cate, Window, 385/50

 

SURVEYS

ARTS HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR

ALLISON, John, 386/42

ARCHER, Robyn, 386/42

BROOKER, Ben, 386/42

CHRISTOFIS, Lee, 386/42

DICKSON, Ian, 386/42

FUHRMANN, Andrew, 386/42

GRYBOWSKI, Tony, 386/42

HALLIWELL, Michael, 386/42

HAWKER, Philippa, 386/42

KILDEA, Paul, 386/42

LARKIN, David. 386/42

McFARLANE, Brian, 386/42

McNAMARA, James, 386/42

MENZ, Christopher, 386/42

ROSE, Peter, 386/42

SCHOFIELD, Leo, 386/42

SHMITH, Michael, 386/42

WEAVER, Jacki, 386/42

WILSON, Jake, 386/42

ZWARTZ, Barney, 396/42

BOOKS OF THE YEAR

ALLINGTON, Patrick, 387/18

BONGIORNO, Frank, 387/18

BRADLEY, James, 387/18

BURNS, Shannon, 387/18

CASTAGNA, Felicity, 387/18

COSIC, Miriam, 387/18

CRAVEN, Peter, 387/18

DAVIS, Glyn, 387/18

DONALDSON, Ian, 387/18

DOOGUE, Geraldine, 387/18

FITZPATRICK, Sheila, 387/18

FRASER, Morag, 387/18

GILES, Paul, 387/18

GOLDSMITH, Andrea, 387/18

GOLDSWORTHY, Kerryn, 387/18

GORTON, Lisa, 387/18

GRIFFITHS, Tom, 387/18

HETHERINGTON, Paul, 387/18

HOLLAND-BATT, Sarah, 387/18

JOSE, Nicholas, 387/18

LEA, Bronwyn, 387/18

LEVER, Susan, 387/18

MCCOOEY, David, 387/18

MCKENNA, Mark, 387/18

MCNAMARA, James, 387/18

MARES, Peter, 387/18

MATTHEWS, Brian, 387/18

NOSKE, Catherine, 387/18

O’REILLY, Paddy, 387/18

PAGE, Geoff, 387/18

PLUNKETT, Felicity, 387/18

RABALAIS, Kevin, 387/18

RUBBO, Mark, 387/18

SHERIDAN, Susan, 387/18

SHMITH, Michael, 387/18

STARKE, Ruth, 387/18

SULLIVAN, Jane, 387/18

TORMEY, Simon, 387/18

WALKER, Brenda, 387/18

WEBB, Jen, 387/18

WRIGHT, Fiona, 387/18

 BOOKS OF THE YEAR – PUBLISHERS

BALL, Ben, 387/40

CURNOW, Meredith, 387/40

DUFFY, Madonna, 387/40

HEATH, Sally, 387/40

HEYWARD, Michael, 387/40

HOLLIER, Nathan, 387/40

INDYK, Ivor, 387/40

MCGUINNESS, Phillipa, 387/40

PALFREYMAN, Jane, 387/40

TUFFIELD, Aviva, 387/40

WHITE, Terri-ann, 387/40

WILLIAMSON, Geordie, 387/40

 

 TRIBUTE

LLOYD JAMES, Andy and Peter Rose, Brian Johns (1936–2016), 379/5