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Issue #1, June 1978Australian Book Review is one of the country’s leading cultural magazines. Founded in 1961 in Adelaide and revived in Melbourne in 1978, it is an independent, not-for-profit magazine committed to publishing critical and creative writing of the highest standard. Through its print and digital publishing, website, prizes, fellowships, events, and partnerships, ABR makes a major contribution to Australia’s culture of ideas.
The magazine publishes in-depth literary and arts reviews as well as new poetry and fiction, essays, commentaries, and interviews. ABR also reviews films, television, music, theatre, opera, dance, festivals, and art exhibitions.
ABR is a strong advocate of proper support and remuneration for freelance reviewers. We pay for everything we publish – print and online – and we pay increasingly well.
ABR is a powerful generator of ideas and creative writing, and a key supporter of fresh talent. Few publications support writers and editors through such varied and lucrative programs.
Editors
First issue, 1961 (series one)First Series
1961 to 1974 - Geoffrey Dutton, Max Harris, and Rosemary Wighton
Second series:
1986 to 1987 - Kerryn Goldsworthy
1988 - Louise Adler
1989 to 1995 - Rosemary Sorensen
1995 to 2000 - Helen Daniel
2001 to present day - Peter Rose
Find out more about ABR Staff, the ABR Board, the ABR Laureates, and contributors to the first and second series. A timeline of major events from ABR’s history can be found here.
ABR Print Publishing
ABR publishes reviews, commentaries, interviews, essays, surveys, and creative writing. In general ABR publishes approximately 500 features in print each year by 300 contributors. Roughly 90 or 100 of these contributors will be new to the magazine. ABR is open to approaches from new contributors and you can find out more here. ABR publishes an annual index of our print content here (from 2017 we have also indexed our digital content). Prior to 2021, ABR published ten issues per year. In June 2021, we added an eleventh issue.
ABR Print Edition Statistics and Gender Breakdown
Below is a gender breakdown from the print edition between 2014 and 2022. (NB this table only includes information about items published in the print edition. It does not include our wider digital content. Statistics on non-binary contributors are only included when known.)
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Year |
Features published in the print edition |
Percentage of those features written by: |
Number of new contributors |
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Men |
Women |
Non-binary authors |
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2014 |
457 |
56% |
44% |
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91 |
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2015 |
536 |
60% |
40% |
|
103 |
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2016 |
501 |
61% |
39% |
|
74 |
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2017 |
501 |
57% |
43% |
|
88 |
|
2018 |
530 |
54% |
46% |
|
93 |
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2019 |
485 |
52% |
48% |
|
83 |
|
2020 |
492 |
53% |
46% |
1% |
82 |
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2021 |
494 |
51% |
48% |
1% |
76 |
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2022 |
463 |
54% |
45% |
1% |
71 |
Interviews
We have published 181 interviews with a wide range of authors, critics, poets, and publishers including Tim Winton, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Geraldine Brooks, Hazel Rowley, Carmen Callil, and Sheila Fitzpatrick.
- 94 of these interviews are with women; 87 are with men,
- We have published 17 Critic of the Month interviews, 115 Open Page interviews, 28 Poet of the Month interviews, and 21 Publisher of the Month interviews.
Surveys
ABR regularly publishes surveys of groups of critics, publishers, and commentators on a range of subjects including the following: Books of the Year, Arts Highlights of the Year, and Publisher Picks.
The ABR Favourite Australian Novel polls
Back in 2009, when we sought readers’ nominations for the ABR Favourite Australian Novel (any era, any genre), we anticipated goodly interest, ABR readers being a passionate and well-read bunch. But we hadn’t expected to be inundated with quite so many faxes and emails. In the end we received thousands of votes for some 290 Australian novels. Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet, a perennial favourite since its publication in 1991, was the overwhelming favourite – by a margin of three to one to its nearest rival, Henry Handel Richardson’s The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, which was closely followed by Patrick White’s Voss and Winton’s most recent novel, Breath. Particularly heartening was the large number of nineteenth-century novels and those published before the remarkable expansion of fiction publishing in the last quarter of the twentieth century. The following feature, which appeared in the February 2010 issue, lists the top twenty Favourite Australian Novels.
In 2019 we asked readers to nominate their Favourite Australian Novel published since 2000.
Advocacy and engagement
ABR, though not politically aligned, is an engaged and responsive magazine. From time to time, we publish open letters on key social or political questions. These include an Open Letter on Marriage Equality and an Open Letter on the importance of saving the ABC.
ABR Online Exclusives
Not all ABR’s publishing appears in the print magazine. We publish a wide range of online exclusives and previews including book and arts reviews, creative writing, essays and interviews, and podcasts. These appear online in ABR Arts, States of Poetry, Reading Australia, ABR Fiction, Book Talk, and ABR Online Exclusives. Some additional articles also appear as online exclusives in recent online issues of the magazine.
Prizes and Programs
ABR presents three prestigious international literary prizes (for poetry, essays and short stories), a vibrant Fellowship program, and a prestigious Laureate’s program. We also offer regular paid Editorial Internships.
Laureates
To recognise the work of distinguished Australian artists, ABR has to date named three ABR Laureates.
- David Malouf (2014)
- Robyn Archer (2016)
- Sheila Fitzpatrick (2023)
Fellows
Since 2011 ABR has awarded twenty-one Fellowships to twelve women and nine men. The Fellows are listed below under the year of publication. Find out more about the Published and current Fellows and read their essays.
Since 2009 ABR has awarded eight paid Editorial Internships as part of our highly successful program. The most recent ABR Editorial Intern was Jack Callil. In 2021, with support from the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas, ABR offered a paid Editorial Cadetship. The first of these ABR Editorial Cadets was James Jiang. Find out more about past Editorial Cadets and Interns. Since 2010 ABR has awarded the Jolley Prize to fifteen writers (the prize was shared in 2011). Forty-seven writers have been shortlisted for the prize. As with all our prizes the Jolley Prize is judged blind. Since 2010 ABR has shortlisted thirty-five women, eleven men, and one non-binary author. Since the prize was internationalised in 2014 we have shortlisted ten writers from overseas. The winners and shortlisted authors are listed below. Find out more about the past winners of the Jolley Prize and read their stories via our Past Winners page.
Since 2007 ABR has awarded the Calibre Essay Prize to twenty-one writers (the prize was shared in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011). Calibre was internationalised in 2015 and as with all our prizes it is judged blind. Since 2010 the Calibre Prize has been won by eleven men, nine women, and one non-binary author. The winning authors are listed below. In 2017 ABR introduced a second prize and this has been won by six women and one man. Find out more about the past winners of the Calibre Prize via our Past Winners page
Since 2005 ABR has awarded the Peter Porter Poetry Prize to twenty-two writers (the prize was shared in 2011, 2017, and 2019) and 101 poems have been shortlisted for the prize. As with all our prizes the Porter Prize is judged blind. Since 2010 ABR has shortlisted fifty-two poems by men and forty-nine poems by women. Since the prize was internationalised in 2014 we have shortlisted twelve writers from overseas. The winners and shortlisted authors are listed below. Find out more about the past winners of the Porter Prize and read their poems via our Past Winners page.
Many past ABR prize shortlisted entrants have gone on to publish full-length works (novels, short story collections, films etc) based on, or including, their shortlisted or winning works. We have listed some of these below.
ABR commissioned and published twenty-six essays on major Australian writers as part of the Australia Council’s Reading Australia project. These essays are all available open access online.
Between 2016 and 2018 ABR published nearly four hundred poems by eighty poets as part of States of Poetry, a federally arranged poetry anthology supported by Copyright Agency Limited that also included podcasts. Anthologies were published by poets from New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, Tasmania, Queensland and the ACT. These anthologies are all open access. The poets and state editors are listed below.
The statistics listed above were last updated on 16 October 2023. The information on this page will continue to be updated and expanded over time.ABR Editorial Internships
ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Calibre Essay Prize
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
From Prize to Publication
Reading Australia
States of Poetry
Editorial note
2019 Peter Porter Poetry Prize winners
Andy Kissane and Belle Ling are the joint winners of the 2019 Peter Porter Poetry Prize, worth a total of $8,500. The winners were named at a ceremony at fortyfivedownstairs in Melbourne on March 18.
Andy Kissane's winning poem is titled 'Searching the Dead', and Belle Ling's winning poem is titled '63 Temple Street, Mong Kok'.
This year’s judges – Judith Bishop, John Kawke, Paul Kane – shortlisted five poems from almost 900 entries, from 28 countries. The shortlisted poets were John Foulcher (ACT), Ross Gillett (Vic.), Andy Kissane (NSW), Belle Ling (QLD/Hong Kong), and Mark Tredinnick (NSW).
Porter Prize judge Judith Bishop (representing the judges) commented:
'Andy Kissane’s "Searching the Dead" recounts a moment in Australian history – our soldiers’ involvement in the Vietnam War – that has not been captured before in this way. This dense, strongly physical and evocative poem grips the reader’s mind and body, and that imprint remains long after reading.'
'In Belle Ling’s "63 Temple St, Mong Kok", other voices are rendered equally as vividly as the speaker’s own. Together they create the generous and gentle texture of this exceptionally resonant work.'
About Andy Kissane
Andy Kissane has published a novel, a book of short stories, The Swarm, and four books of poetry. Awards for his poetry include the Fish International Poetry Prize, the Australian Poetry Journal’s Poem of the Year and the Tom Collins Poetry Prize. Radiance (Puncher & Wattmann, 2014) was shortlisted for the Victorian and Western Australian Premier’s Prizes for Poetry and the Adelaide Festival Awards. He recently co-edited a book of criticism on Australian poetry, Feeding the Ghost. His fifth poetry collection, The Tomb of the Unknown Artist is due in 2019. He teaches English and lives in Sydney. http://andykissane.com
About Belle Ling
Belle Ling is a PhD student in Creative Writing at The University of Queensland, Australia. Her poetry manuscript, Rabbit-Light, was awarded Highly Commended in the 2018 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. Her first poetry collection, A Seed and a Plant, was shortlisted for The HKU International Poetry Prize 2010. Her poem, ‘That Space’, was placed second in the ESL category of the International Poetry Competition organized by the Oxford Brookes University in October 2016. She was awarded a Merit Scholarship at the New York State Summer Writers Institute in 2017.
Further information
The Peter Porter Poetry Prize is one of Australia’s most prestigious poetry awards. For more information about the Peter Porter Poetry Prize or to read the 2018 shortlisted poems please visit the ABR website.
Andy Kissane's and Belle Ling's winning poems are published in the March 2019 issue of ABR.
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Index for 2018: Nos 398–407 & online features
ABR Index 2018
NB: this index includes material published in the print magazine and online in 2018.
2018 Australian Book Review Index
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ABBS, Carolyn, The Tiny Museums, UWAP Poetry, 401/40, Joan Fleming
AHMAD, Michael Mohammed, The Lebs, Hachette, 399/34, Jay Daniel Thompson
AIKEN, Michael, Satan Repentant, UWA Publishing, 405/57, David Dick
AITKEN, Adam, Archipelago, Vagabond Press, 401/44, David Dick
ALBISTON, Jordie, Warlines, Hybrid, 406/47, David McCooey
ALCOFF, Linda Martin, Rape and Resistance: Understanding the complexities of sexual violation, Polity, 402/9, Alecia Simmonds
ALLEN, Elizabeth, Present, Vagabond Press, 401/44, David Dick
ARNOTT, Robbie, Flames, Text Publishing, 401/37, Amy Baillieu
ATHERTON, Michael, A Coveted Possession: The rise and fall of the piano in Australia, La Trobe University Press, 405/69, Gillian Wills
ATKINS, Clare, Between Us, Black Inc., 405/58, Margaret Robson Kent
ATKINS, Peter, Conjuring the Universe: The origins of the laws of nature, Oxford University Press, 403/62, Robyn Williams
ATKINSON, Meera, Traumata, UQP, 403/54, Ceridwen Spark
ATTENBOROUGH, David, Adventures of a Young Naturalist: The Zoo Quest expeditions, Two Roads, 398/24, Danielle Clode
AVERILL, Roger, Relatively Famous, Transit Lounge, 401/36, Shannon Burns
BALL, Jesse, Census, Text Publishing, 402/21, Beejay Silcox
BANNOS, Pamela, Vivian Maier: A photographer’s life and afterlife, University of Chicago Press, 399/64, Helen Ennis
BANVILLE, John, Mrs Osmond, Viking, 398/25, Brenda Niall
BARNES, John, La Trobe: Traveller, writer, governor, Halstea Press, 398/34, John Arnold
BECK, Luke, Religious Freedom and the Australian Constitution: Origins and future, Routledge, 403/66, David Rolph
BELL, Stephen and Michael Keating, Fair Share: Competing claims and Australia’s economic future, Melbourne University Press, 402/14, Richard Walsh
BENEBA CLARKE, Maxine (ed.), The Best Australian Stories 2017, Black Inc., 398/28, Rachel Robertson
BENNETTS, Alexander (ed.), The Best of The Lifted Brow: Volume Two, Brow Books, 398/57, Dan Dixon
BERESFORD, Bruce, The Best Film I Never Made: And other stories about a life in the arts, Text Publishing, 398/65, Desley Deacon
BERESFORD, Quentin, Adani and the War Over Coal, NewSouth, 405/18, Susan Reid
BERRY, Vanessa, Mirror Sydney, Giramondo, 398/50, Lucas Thompson
BETTS, A.J., Hive, Pan Macmillan, 405/58, Margaret Robson Kent
BEVERIDGE, Judith, Sun Music: New and selected poems, Giramondo, 404/43, Judith Bishop
BISHOP, Judith, Interval, UQP, 400/65, Jill Jones
BISHOP, Stephanie, Man Out of Time, Hachette, 404/35, Johanna Leggatt
BOOCHANI, Behrouz, translated by Omid Tofighian, No Friend but the Mountains, Picador, 405/8, Felicity Plunkett
BORDWELL, David, Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s filmmakers changed movie storytelling, University of Chicago Press, 402/37, Desley Deacon
BRADFORD, David, Tell Me I’m Okay: A doctor’s story, Monash University Publishing, 403/61, Robert Reynolds
BRAYSHAW, Ian, Lillee & Thommo: The deadly pair’s reign of terror, Hardie Grant Books, 398/56, Bernard Whimpress
BRENNER, Michael, In Search of Israel: The history of an idea, Princeton University Press, 403/55, Mark Baker
BROPHY, Kevin, Look at the Lake, Puncher & Wattmann, 404/45, Joan Fleming
BROWN, Craig, Ma’am Darling: Ninety-nine glimpses of Princess Margaret, Fourth Estate, 401/26, David Rolph
BROWN, Gordon, My Life, Our Times, Vintage, 406/49, Simon Tormey
BROWN, Pam, Click Here For What We Do, Vagabond Press, 403/69, Tim Wright
BROWN, Tina, The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983–1992, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 398/23, Susan Wyndham
BUTLER, Rex and Sheridan Palmer (eds), Antipodean Perspective: Selected Writings of Bernard Smith, Monash University Publishing, 405/53, Brian Matthews
CALLOWAY, Colin G., The Indian World of George Washington: The first president, the first Americans, and the birth of the nation, Oxford University Press, 407/63, Josh Specht
CAMPBELL, Marion May, The Man on the Mantelpiece: A memoir, UWA Publishing, 407/14, Francesca Sasnaitis
CARR, Bob, Run For Your Life, Melbourne University Press, 404/20, Stephen Mills
CHAN, Gabrielle, Rusted Off: Why country Australia is fed up, Vintage, 406/12, Shaun Crowe
CHAPLIN, Felicity, La Parisienne in Cinema: Between art and life, Manchester University Press, 402/33, Philippa Hawker
CHAUDHURI, Amit, The Origins of Dislike, Oxford University Press, 407/55, Robert Dessaix
CHRISTOPHER, Emma, Freedom in White and Black: A lost story of the illegal slave trade and its global legacy, University of Wisconsin Press, online only, Trevor Burnard
COCHRANE, Peter, Best We Forget: The war for white Australia, 1914-18, Text Publishing, 403/11, Marilyn Lake
COCHRANE, Peter, The Making of Martin Sparrow: After the flood comes the reckoning, Viking, 406/53, David Whish-Wilson
COHEN, Bernard, When I Saw the Animal, UQP, 406/39, Anthony Lynch
COHEN, David, The Hunter and Other Stories of Men, Transit Lounge, 405/21, Sophie Frazer
COHEN, Marcelo, translated by Chris Andrews, Melodrome, Giramondo, 406/52, Alice Whitmore
COHEN, Mitchell, The Politics of Opera: A history from Monteverdi to Mozart, Princeton University Press, 398/66, Michael Halliwell
COLE, Catherine, Seabirds Crying in the Harbour Dark, UWA Publishing, 398/52, Rachael Mead
COLLINS, Paul, Absolute Power: How the Pope became the most influential man in the world, PublicAffairs, 404/41, Gerard Windsor
COWEN, Lady Anna, My Vice-Regal Life: Diaries 1978 to 1982, Miegunyah Press, online only, Susan Magarey
CRESPINO, Joseph, Atticus Finch: The biography, Basic Books, 404/10, Clare Corbould
CREWS, Frederick, Freud: The making of an illusion, Profile Books, 399/15, Nick Haslam
CRYLE, Peter and Elizabeth Stephens, Normality: A critical genealogy, University of Chicago Press, 401/46, James Bennett
CUSK, Rachel, Kudos, Faber, 403/28, Kirsten Tranter
DALLEK, Robert, Franklin D. Roosevelt: A political life, Allen Lane, 401/23, Andrew Broertjes
DAVIS, Richard, Close to the Flame: The life of Stuart Challender, Wakefield Press, 399/68, Ian Dickson
DAVISON, Graeme (ed.), Hugh Stretton: Selected writings, La Trobe University Press, 407/25, Tom Griffiths
DAY, Greogry, A Sand Archive, Picador, 401/34, Gillian Dooley
DAY, Sarah, Towards Light & Other Poems, Puncher & Wattmann, 406/47, David McCooey
DEKKERS, Midas, translated by Nancy Forest-Flier, The Story of Shit, Text Publishing, 402/53, Lauren Fuge
DER-WEI WANG, David (ed.), A New Literary History of Modern China, Harvard, 398/15, Nicholas Jose
DIMÓPULOS, Mariana, translated by Alice Whitmore, All My Goodbyes, Giramondo, 398/29, Lilit Thwaites
DISHER, Gary, Her, Hachette, 398/51, Anna MacDonald
DIXON, Robert (ed.), Richard Flanagan: New critical essays, Sydney University Press, 403/42, Susan Lever
DOBLIN, Alfred, translated by Michael Hofmann, Berlin Alexanderplatz, New York Review Books Classics, 402/25, Joachim Redner
DOLLIMORE, Jonathan, Desire: A memoir, Bloomsbury, 401/27, Dion Kagan
DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor, translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater, Crime and Punishment, Oxford University Press, 401/38, Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover
DOVEY, Ceridwen, In the Garden of the Fugitives, Hamish Hamilton, 400/55, Ashley Hay
DOVEY, Ceridwen, Writers on writers: Ceridwen Dovey on J.M. Coetzee, Black Inc., 406/27, Felicity Plunkett
DOVEY, Kim, Rob Adams, and Ronald Jones (eds), Urban Choreography: Central Melbourne 1985 - , Melbourne University Press, 405/39, Sara Savage
DREWE, Robert, The True Colour of the Sea, Hamish Hamilton, 404/33, Anthony Lynch
DUBERMAN, Martin, Has the Gay Movement Failed?, University of California Press, 404/46, Dennis Altman
DWYER, Philip, Napoleon: Passion, death and resurrection 1815-1840, 405/49, Bloomsbury, Peter McPhee
EDWARDS, John, John Curtin’s War: Volume I, Viking, 400/30, James Walter
EMERSON, Craig, The Boy from Brisbane, Scribe, 400/60, Lyndon Megarrity
ENGEL, Matthew, That’s the Way It Crumbles: The American conquest of English, Profile Books, 398/58, Bruce Moore
ETTLER, Justine, Bohemia Beach, Transit Lounge, 402/20, Fiona Wright
EVANS, Harold, Do I Make Myself Clear?: Why writing well matters, Abacus, 403/40, Richard Walsh
FARRELL, John A., Richard Nixon: The life, Scribe, 398/38, Andrew Broertjes
FERGUSON, Robert, Scandinavians: In search of the soul of the north, Overlook Press, 404/31, Kári Gíslason
FERNANDES, Clinton, Island Off the Coast of Asia: Instruments of statecraft in Australian foreign policy, Monash University Publishing, 405/21, David Brophy
FEWSTER, Alan, Three Duties and Talleyrand’s Dictum: Keith Waller: Portrait of a working diplomat, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 400/27, Geoffrey Blainey
FINK, Hannah, Bronwyn Oliver: Strange things, Piper Press, 401/51, Brigitta Olubas
FLANNERY, Tim, Europe: A natural history, Text Publishing, 406/13, David Garrioch
FORD, Clementine, Boys Will Be Boys, Allen & Unwin, 406/17, Astrid Edward
FRAME, Tom and Albert Palazzo, Ethics Under Fire: Challenges for the Australian Army, UNSW Press, 399/57, Deborah Zion
FRANASZEK, Andrzej, Miłosz: A biography, Belknap Press, 398/41, Peter Goldsworthy
FRANCE, David, How to Survive a Plague: The story of how activists and scientists tamed AIDS, Picador, 398/51, Robert Reynolds
FRENKEL, Françoise, translated by Stephanie Smee, No Place to Lay One’s Head, Vintage, online only, Avril Alba
FRY, Stephen, Mythos, Michael Joseph, 400/44, Julia Kindt
GANDOLFO, Enza, The Bridge, Scribe, 402/24, Carol Middleton
GAPPS, Stephen, The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the early colony, 1788-1817, NewSouth, 403/13, Alan Atkinson
GATLAND-VENESS, Meg, I Had Such Friends, Pantera Press, 405/59, Margaret Robson Kent
GAYFORD, Martin, Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters, Thames & Hudson, 405/67, Patrick McCaughey
GAYNOUR, Andrea, The Allure of Fungi, CSIRO Publishing, 405/31, Andrea Gaynor
GENONI, Paul and Tanya Dalziell, Half the Perfect World: Writers, dreamers and drifters on Hydra, 1955-1964, Monash University Publishing, 406/35, Brian Matthews
GERGIS, Joelle, Sunburnt Country: The history and future of climate change in Australia, Melbourne University Press, 405/34, Lauren Rickards
GINNA, Peter (ed.), What Editors Do: The art, craft, and business of book editing, University of Chicago Press, 400/63, Richard Walsh
GIOVANNONI, Moreno, The Fireflies of Autumn: And other tales of San Ginese, Black Inc., 403/32, Michael Brennan
GLASKIN, Katie, Crosscurrents: Law and society in a native title claim to land and sea, UWA Publishing, 401/18, Richard Martin
GOLDSWORTHY, Anna (ed.), The Best Australian Essays 2017, Black Inc., 399/24, Lucas Thompson
GORDON, Lyndall, Outsiders: Five women writers who changed the world, Virago, 401/15, Dorothy Driver
GOW, Ian D., and Stuart Kells, The Big Four: The curious past and perilous future of the global accounting monopoly, La Trobe University Press/Black Inc., 402/13, Remy Davison
GRAEBER, David, Bullshit Jobs: A theory, Allen Lane, 403/14, Gideon Haigh
GREEN, Jonathan, Meanjin A-Z: Fine fiction 1980 to now, Melbourne University Press, 403/66, Francesca Sasnaitis
GRIFFITHS, Billy, Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering ancient Australia, Black Inc, 400/38, Kim Mahood
HAGAN, Joe, Sticky Fingers: The life and times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone magazine, Viking, 400/57, Anwen Crawford
HAIGH, Gideon, A Scandal in Bohemia: The life and death of Mollie Dean, Hamish Hamilton, 400/42, Anna MacDonald
HAIGH, Gideon, Crossing the Line: How Australian cricket lost its way, Slattery Media Group, 406/44, Kieran Pender
HALDANE, Robert, The People’s Force: A history of Victoria Police, Melbourne University Press, 401/50, John Arnold
HALL, Rodney, A Stolen Season, Picador, 400/52, Brian Matthews
HALLIWELL, Michael, National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera: Myths reconsidered, Routledge, 407/74, Peter Tregear
HAM, Rosalie, The Year of the Farmer, Pan Macmillan, 405/47, Brenda Walker
HAMILTON, Clive, Silent Invasion: China’s influence in Australia, Hardie Grant Books, 400/11, David Brophy
HARDING, Luke, Collusion: How Russia helped Trump win the White House, Guardian Books/Faber, 399/14, Varun Ghosh
HARRISON, Jennifer, Anywhy, Black Pepper, 406/47, David McCooey
HEMPENSTALL, Peter, Truth’s Fool: Derek Freeman and the war over cultural anthropology, University of Wisconsin Press, 400/40, Simon Caterson
HENRY-JONES, Eliza, P is for Pearl, Angus & Robertson, 405/59, Margaret Robson Kent
HENSHER, Philip, The Friendly Ones, Fourth Estate, 402/19, Robert Dessaix
HERSH, Seymour, Reporter: A memoir, Allen Lane, 404/17, Gideon Haigh
HESSLER, Stefanie (ed.), MIT Press, 405/23, Michael Adams
HILL, Barry, Reason and Lovelessness: Essays, encounters, reviews 1980-2017, Monash University Publishing, 401/12, Patrick McCaughey
HINTON, Les, The Bootle Boy: An untidy life in news, Les Hinton, 404/23, Michael Shmith
HOFMANN, Michael, One Lark, One Horse, Faber, 407/52, Philip Mead
HOMER, translated by Emily Wilson, The Odyssey, Wiley, 407/16, Marguerite Johnson
HOMER, translated by Peter Green, The Iliad: A new translation, University of California Press, 407/16, Marguerite Johnson
HOOPER, Chloe, The Arsonist, Hamish Hamilton, 405/22, Fiona Gruber
HYNES, Samuel, On War and Writing, University of Chicago Press, 405/55, Robin Gerster
INGLIS, Ken, Seumas Spark, and Jay Winter with Carol Bunyan, Dunera Lives: Volume 1: A visual history, Monash University Publishing, 404/24, Astrid Edwards
ISAAC, Geoff, Featherston, Thames & Hudson, 398/67, Christopher Menz
JAMES, Clive, The River in the Sky, Picador, 406/48, Geoff Page
JENKINS, Tiffany, Keeping Their Marbles: How the treasures of the past ended up in museums … and why they should stay there, Oxford University Press, 401/52, Christopher Allen
JENNER, Micheline, The Secret Life of Whales: A marine biologist’s revelations, NewSouth, 398/56, Rachael Mead
JOHNSON, Katherine, Matryoshka, Ventura Press, 406/40, Alice Nelson
JONES, Benjamin T., This Time: Australia’s republican past and future, Redback, 401/21, Billy Griffiths
JONES, Gail, The Death of Noah Glass, Text Publishing, 400/53, Kerryn Goldsworthy
JONES, Jill, Brink, Five Islands Press, 398/44, Toby Fitch
JONES, Jonah, An Introduction to Pontormo, Mauro Pagliai Editore, 404/63, Vivien Gaston
JONES, S.A., The Fortress, Echo Publishing, 401/44, Anna MacDonald
JORDAN, Deborah, Loving Words: Love letters of Nettie and Vance Palmer 1909-1914, Brandl & Schlesinger, 404/12, Brenda Niall
JORDAN, Toni, The Fragments, Text Publishing, 407/38, Suzanne Falkiner
JOSEV, Tanya, The Campaign Against the Courts: A history of the judicial activism debate, Federation Press, 398/55, John Eldridge
JUKES, Helen, A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings: A year of keeping bees, Scribner, 405/32, Keegan O’Connor
KANE, Paul, A Passing Bell: Ghazals for Tina, White Crane, 407/48, David McCooey
KELLS, Stuart, Shakespeare’s Library: Unlocking the greatest mystery in literature, Text Publishing, 405/68, David McInnis
KENNEDY, Sarah, T.S. Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination, Cambridge University Press, 404/14, James Ley
KILDEA, Paul, Chopin’s Piano: A journey through Romanticism, Allen Lane, 404/60, John Allison
KINDT, Julia, Revisiting Delphi: Religion and storytelling in ancient Greece, Cambridge University Press, 399/60, Greta Hawes
KING, Jonathan, Palestine Diaries: The light horsemen’s own story, battle by battle, Scribe, 399/56, Martin Crotty
KINGSOLVER, Barbara, Unsheltered, Faber, 407/42, Nicole Abadee
KINLEY, David, Necessary Evil: How to fix finance by saving human rights, Oxford University Press, 404/27, Giovanni Di Lieto
KINSELLA, John and Paul Kane, Renga: 100 poems, GloriaSMH Press, 399/29, David McCooey
KLEINHENZ, Elizabeth, Germaine: The life of Germaine Greer, Knopf, 407/12, Zora Simic
KRYNICKI, Ryszard, translated by Alissa Valles, Our Life Grows, NYRB Poets, 401/43, Benjamin Ivry
LAKE, Jessica, The Face That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits: The American women who forged a right to privacy, Yale, 401/49, Marama Whyte
LAKE, Meredith, The Bible in Australia: A cultural history, NewSouth, 401/8, Alan Atkinson
LATOUR, Bruno, Down to Earth: Politics in the new climate regime, Wiley, 405/20, Tim Flannery
LEIGH, Andrew, Randomistas: How radical researchers changed our world, La Trobe University Press, 404/26, Michael Sexton
LEWIS, Rhodri, Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness, Princeton University Press, 399/51, David McInnis
LIBERMAN, Serge, The Storyteller: Selected stories, Serge Liberman, online only, Tali Lavi
LILLEY, Rozanna, Do Oysters Get Bored?: A curious life, UWA Publishing, 402/55, Susan Sheridan
LINDSEY, Tim and Dave McRae (eds), Strangers Next Door? Indonesia and Australia in the Asian century, Hart Publishing, 404/29, David Fettling
LOZANO, Rosina, An American Language: The history of Spanish in the United States, University of California Press, 406/43, Timothy Verhoeven
LUCASHENKO, Melissa, Too Much Lip, UQP, 405/46, Jane Sullivan
LUKINS, Robert, The Everlasting Sunday, UQP, 400/63, Anna MacDonald
MACINTYRE, Stuart, André Brett, and Gwilym Croucher, No End of a Lesson: Australia’s unified national system of higher education, Melbourne University Press, 398/54, Paul Giles
MACLEAN, Nancy, Democracy in Chains: The deep history of the radical right’s stealth plan for America, Scribe, 398/36, Max Holleran
MACRON, Emmanuel, translated by Jonathan Goldberg and Juliette Scott, Revolution, Scribe, 399/8, Natalie J. Doyle
MAIDEN, Jennifer, Selected Poems 1967-2018, Quemar Press, 403/67, Gig Ryan
MALEKI, Mohammad Ali, translated by Mansour Shoushtari, Truth in the Cage, Rochford Street Press, 405/8, Felicity Plunkett
MALOUF, David, An Open Book, UQP, 407/47, Judith Bishop
MANNE, Robert, On Borrowed Time, Black Inc., 401/14, Shaun Crowe
MARR, David, My Country, Black Inc., 407/9, Glyn Davis
MASTERS, Chris, No Front Line: Australia’s Special Forces at war in Afghanistan, Allen & Unwin, 398/13, Kevin Foster
MAUNSELL, Jerome Boyd, Portraits from Life: Modernist novelists and autobiography, OUP, online only, Richard Freadman
MAUPIN, Armistead, Logical Family: A memoir, Doubleday, 399/54, Dennis Altman
MAY, Elaine Tyler, Fortress America: How we embraced fear and abandoned democracy, Basic Books, 401/25, Max Holleran
McCANN, Joy, Wild Sea: A history of the Southern Ocean, NewSouth, 405/35, Paul Humphries
McFARLANE, Brian, Making a Meal of it: Writing about film, Monash University Publishing, 402/45, Varun Ghosh
McGUINESS, Phillipa, The Year Everything Changed: 2001, Vintage, 402/49, Paul Morgan
McKNIGHT, David, Populism Now! The case for progressive populism, NewSouth, 403/57, Matteo Bonotti
McMAHON, Elizabeth and Brigitta Olubas, Elizabeth Harrower: Critical essays, Sydney University Press, 399/53, Susan Sheridan
McMULLAN, Gordon et al., Antipodal Shakespeare, Bloomsbury, 404/22, David McInnis
McMULLIN, Ross, Pompey Elliott at War: In his own words, Scribe, 403/60, Geoffrey Blainey
MEAD, Philip, Zanzibar Light, Vagabond Press, 402/56, Judith Bishop
MENDILOW, Jonathan and Eric Phélippeau (eds), Handbook of Political Party Funding, Edward Elgar, online only, Stephen Mills
MEWBURN, Inger, How to be an Academic: The thesis whisperer reveals all, NewSouth, 399/24, Kirk Graham
MEYRICK, Julian, Robert Phiddian, and Tully Barnett, What Matters? Talking value in Australian culture, Monash University Publishing, 406/25, Gabrielle Coslovich
MICHAEL, Rose, The Art of Navigation, UWA Publishing, 398/38, Lisa Bennett
MIDALIA, Susan, The Art of Persuasion, Fremantle Press, 404/36, Sophie Frazer
MIDDLETON, Kate, Passage, Giramondo, 398/44, Toby Fitch
MILLS, Jennifer, Dyschronia, Picador, 399/38, James Bradley
MITCHELL, Stephen (translator), Beowulf, Yale, 399/27, Bruce Moore
MOLE, Tom, What the Victorians Made of Romanticism: Material artifacts, cultural practices, and reception history, Princeton University Press, 401/47, Michael Falk
MOORE, Lorrie, See What Can Be Done: Essays, criticisms, and commentary, Faber, 403/64, Lucas Thompson
MOORE, Peter, Endeavour: The ship and the attitude that changed the world, Vintage, 405/50, Alan Atkinson
MOORHEAD, Joanna, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington, Virago Press, online only, Gabriel García Ochoa
MOORHOUSE, Frank, The Drover’s Wife, Knopf, 399/52, Paul Genoni
MORGAN, Margaret, The Second Cure, Vintage, 405/26, Jack Rowland
MORRIS, Heather, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Echo, 399/35, Tali Lavi
MSIMANG, Sisonke, Always Another Country: A memoir of exile and home, Text Publishing, 403/53, Dorothy Driver
MURAKAMI, Haruki, translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen, Killing Commendatore, 405/44, Harvill Secker, Cassandra Atherton
MURRAY, Les, Collected Poems, Black Inc., 407/44, Peter Goldsworthy
MURRAY, Ruby J., The Biographer’s Lover, Black Inc.,404/34, Suzanne Falkiner
NAMJOSHI, Suniti, Aesop the Fox, Spinifex, 404/36, Susan Varga
NELSON, Alice, The Children’s House, Vintage, 405/48, Sarah Holland-Batt
NELSON, Camilla and Rachel Robertson, Dangerous Idea About Mothers, UWA Publishing, 407/14, Felicity Plunkett
NIALL, Brenda, Josephine Dunin, and Frances O’Neill, Newman College: A history 1918–2018, Newman College, online only, Barney Zwartz
NIVEN, Bill, Hitler and Film: The Fuhrer’s hidden passion, Yale, 402/31, Peter Goldsworthy
O’DONNELL, Lawrence, Playing with Fire: The 1968 election and the transformation of American politics, Penguin, 399/13, Barbara Keys
O’GRADY, Emily, The Yellow House, Allen & Unwin, 405/58, Jay Daniel Thompson
O’HANLON, Seamus, City Life: The new urban Australia, Seamus O’Hanlon, 405/38, Frank Bongiorno
O’NEILL, Ryan, The Drover’s Wives: 99 reinterpretations of Henry Lawson’s Australian classic, Brio, 403/30, Jen Webb
OLSSON, Kristina, Shell, Scribner, 406/38, Susan Wyndham
ONDAATJE, Michael, Warlight, Jonathan Cape, 404/32, Beejay Silcox
ORR, Stephen, Incredible Floridas, Wakefield Press, 400/56, Gregory Day
PAGE, Geoff, Hard Horizons, Pitt Street Poetry, 402/57, Dennis Haskell
PAQUET, Philippe, translated by Julie Rose, Simon Leys: Navigator between worlds, La Trobe University Press, 400/22, Ian Donaldson
PARAMADITHA, Intan, translated by Stephen J. Epstein, Apple and Knife, Brow Books, 401/39, Lisa Bennett
PARKS, Tim, Out of My Head: On the trail of consciousness, Harvill Secker, 407/60, Nick Haslam
PARRISH, Tommi, The Lie and How We Told It, Fantagraphics, online only, Ronnie Scott
PATRIC, A.S., The Butcherbird Stories, Transit Lounge, 407/37, Susan Sheridan
PERCIVAL WOOD, Sally, Dissent: The student press in 1960s Australia, Scribe, 398/53, Blanche Clark
PERRY, Gina, The Lost Boys: Inside Muzafer Sherif’s Robbers Cave experiment, Scribe, 402/52, Nick Haslam
PERSIAN, Jayne, Beautiful Balts: From displaced persons to new Australians, NewSouth, 398/46, Francesca Sasnaitis
PFEFFER, Anshel, Bibi: The turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu, Basic Books, 406/41, Louise Adler
PHILIPPS, Roland, A Spy Named Orphan: The enigma of Donald Maclean, Bodley Head, 405/10, Sheila Fitzpatrick
PICKRELL, John (ed.), The Best Australian Science Writing 2018, NewSouth, 407/57, Paul Humphries
PIGGIN, Stuart, and Robert D. Linder, The Fountains of Public Prosperity: Evangelical Christians in Australian history 1740-1914, Monash University Publishing, 405/52, Paul Collins
PINCKNEY, Darryl (ed.), The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick, NYRB, 400/34, Patrick McCaughey
PINKER, Steven, Enlightenment Now: The case for reason, science, humanism and progress, Allen Lane, 402/50, Benjamin Madden
PLANT, Margaret, Love and Lament: An essay on the arts in Australia in the twentieth century, Thames and Hudson, 402/16, Paul Giles
PLOWRIGHT, Adam, The French Exception: Emmanuel Macron: The extraordinary rise and risk, Icon Books, 399/8, Natalie J. Doyle
POIRIER, Agnes, Left Bank: Art, passion and the rebirth of Paris 1940-1950, Bloomsbury, 407/56, Gemma Betros
PRETTY, Ron, The Left Hand Mirror, Pitt Street Poetry, 402/57, Dennis Haskell
PRIOR, James, America Looks to Australia: The hidden role of Richard Casey in the creation of the Australia-American alliance, 1940-1942, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 400/37, Remy Davison
RASMUSSEN, Carolyn, Shifting the Boundaries: The University of Melbourne 1975-2015, Miegunyah, 407/61, Kate Murphy
RITTER, David, The Coal Truth: The fight to stop Adani, defeat the big polluters and reclaim our democracy, UWA Publishing, 405/18, Susan Reid
ROBINSON, Marilynne, What Are We Doing Here?: Essays, Virago, 401/10, Morag Fraser
ROWSE, Tim, Indigenous and Other Australians since 1901, UNSW Press, 399/18, Philip Jones
RUDD, Kevin, Not for the Faint-Hearted: A personal reflection on life, politics and purpose, Macmillan, 400/20, Neal Blewett
RYAN, Christian, Feeling is the Thing that Happens in 1000th of a Second: A season of cricket photographer Patrick Eagar, riverrun, 398/56, Bernard Whimpress
RYAN, Jackie, We’ll Show the World: Expo 88, UQP, 404/47, Lyndon Megarrity
SALES, Leigh, Any Ordinary Day, Hamish Hamilton, 405/11, Gail Bell
SAMPSON, Fiona, In Search of Mary Shelley: The girl who wrote Frankenstein, Profile Books, 403/49, Geordie Williamson
SASAKI, Fred and Don Share, Who Reads Poetry: 50 views from Poetry magazine, University of Chicago Press, 401/42, David McCooey
SCOTT, Andrew C., Burning Planet: The story of fire through time, Andrew C. Scott, 407/58, Billy Griffiths
SCOTT, James C., Against the Grain: A deep history of the earliest states, Yale, 399/55, Kate Griffiths
SENECA, edited and translated by James S. Romm, How to Die: An ancient guide to the end of life, Princeton University Press, 404/39, Marguerite Johnson
SERONG, Jock, Preservation, Text Publishing, 407/39, James Bradley
SHERBORNE, Craig, Off the Record, Text Publishing, 399/37, Susan Lever
SHINE, Rick, Cane Toad Wars, University of California Press, 405/26, Libby Robbin
SHIPMAN, Tim, Fall Out: A year of political mayhem, William Collins, 401/22, Ross McKibbin
SHRIVER, Lionel, Property, The Borough Press, 401/35, Chris Flynn
SINGER, Peter (ed.), Does Anything Really Matter?: Essays on Parfit on objectivity, OUP, 398/40, Janna Thompson
SKOVRON, Alex, The Man Who Took to his Bed, Puncher & Wattmann, 399/39, Jill Jones
SLATTERY, Luke, Mrs M: An imagined history, Fourth Estate, 399/36, Gillian Dooley
SLEZAK, Michael (ed.), The Best Australian Science Writing 2017, NewSouth, 399/23, Rachel Mead
SMITH, Yvonne, David Malouf and the Poetic: His earlier writings, Cambria Press, 398/16, David McCooey
SMITH, Zadie, Feel Free: Essays, Hamish Hamilton, 400/33, Sarah Holland-Batt
SOLNIT, Rebecca, The Mother of All Questions: Further feminisms, Granta Books, 400/36, Johanna Leggatt
SORENSEN, Tracy, The Lucky Galah, Picador, 401/39, Josephine Taylor
SORKIN, Michael, What Goes Up: The right and wrongs to the city, Verso, 403/65, Sara Savage
SPURLING, Hilary, Anthony Powell: Dancing to the music of time, Hamish Hamilton, 398/35, Brian McFarlane
ST AUBYN, Edward, Dunbar, Hogarth Shakespeare, 398/26, Lisa Gorton
STEED, Laurie, You Belong Here, Margaret River Press, 401/39, Gretchen Shirm
STEINBERG, Peter K. and Karen V. Kukil (eds), The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 1: 1940-1956, Faber, 400/31, Felicity Plunkett
STEVENS, Norma and Steven M.L. Aronson, Avedon: Something personal, William Heinemann, 399/66, Kevin Rabelais
STRANGIO, Paul, Paul ‘t Hart, and James Walter, The Pivot of Power: Australian prime ministers and political leadership 1949 –2016, Miegunyah, 398/12, Frank Bongiorno
SUMMERS, Anne, Unfettered and Alive: A memoir, Allen & Unwin, 407/12, Zora Simic
SUNY, Ronald Grigor, Red Flag Unfurled: History, historians, and the Russian Revolution, Verso, 400/28, Sheila Fitzpatrick
TAFT, Margaret and Andrew Markus, A Second Chance: The making of Yiddish in Melbourne, Monash University Publishing, 406/45, Tali Lavi
TAUBMAN, William, Gorbachev: His life and times, Simon & Schuster, 400/25, Barbara Keys
TAYLOR, Daniel, The Four Flashpoints: How Asia goes to war, La Trobe University Press, 406/22, Daniel Flitton
THOMAS, Richard F., Why Dylan Matters, William Collins, 401/58, James Ley
THOMSON, David, Warner Bros: The making of an American movie studio, Yale, 402/41, Jake Wilson
TINGLE, Laura, Follow the Leader: Democracy and the rise of the strongman (Quarterly Essay 71), Black Inc., 406/8, Paul Strangio
TOBIN, Vera, Elements of Surprise: Our mental limits and the satisfactions of plot, Harvard University Press, 403/63, Andrea Goldsmith
TOIBIN, Colm, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce, Picador, 406/28, Simon Caterson
TOMALIN, Claire, A Life of My Own, Viking, 398/18, Brenda Niall
TOMSIC, Mary, Beyond the Silver Screen: A history of women, film-making and film culture in Australia 1920-1990, Melbourne University Publishing, 402/44, Suzy Freeman-Greene
TOOZE, Adam, Crashed: How a decade of financial crises changes the world, Allen Lane, 407/27, Rémy Davison
TREMAIN, Rose, Rosie: Scenes from a vanished life, Chatto & Windus, 403/50, Brenda Niall
TREVOR, William, Last Stories, Viking, 402/22, Geordie Williamson
TRIGGS, Gillian, Speaking Up, Melbourne University Press, 406/19, Jane Cadzow
TSIOLKAS, Christos, On Patrick White: Writers on writers, Black Inc., 403/41, Barnaby Smith
TUFFIELD, Aviva (ed.), Best Summer Stories, Black Inc., 407/41, Anthony Lynch
TUNLEY, David, Victoria Rogers, and Cyrus Meher-Homji, Destiny: The extraordinary career of pianist Eileen Joyce, Lyrebird Press, 401/59, Paul Watt
TWOMEY, Anne, The Veiled Sceptre: Reserve powers of heads of state in Westminster systems, Cambridge University Press, 404/40, Stephen Murray
TWOMEY, Christina, The Battle Within: POWs in postwar Australia, NewSouth, 403/58, Carolyn Holbrook
TWYFORD-MOORE, Sam, The Rapids: Ways of looking at mania, NewSouth, 403/52, Shannon Burns
UHLMANN, Anthony, Saint Antony in His Desert, UWA Publishing, 403/33, Suzie Gibson
VAN VELZEN, Marianne, Missing in Action: Australia’s World War I grave services, an astonishing story of misconduct, fraud and hoaxing, Allen & Unwin, online only, Simon Caterson
VATIKIOTIS, Michael, Blood and Silk: Power and conflict in modern Southeast Asia, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 399/22, David Fettling
VEYNE, Paul, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan, Palmyra: An irreplaceable pleasure, University of Chicago Press, 399/58, Christopher Allen
VINCENT, Eve, Against Native Title: Conflict and creativity in outback Australia, Aboriginal Studies Press, 401/18, Richard Martin
WAKELING, Adam, Stern Justice: The forgotten story of Australia, Japan and the Pacific War Crimes trials, Viking, 407/65, Michael Sexton
WALKER, Shaun, The Long Hangover: Putin’s new Russia and the ghosts of the past, OUP, 400/61, Shaun Walker
WALSH, Adrian, The Inheritance of Wealth: Justice, equality, and the right to bequeath, Oxford University Press, 404/38, Adrian Walsh
WALSH, Stephen, Debussy: A painter in sound, Faber, 406/65, Paul Kildea
WATERS, Alice, Coming to my Senses: The making of a counterculture cook, Hardie Grant Books, 398/21, Mimi Biggadike
WESTAD, Odd Arne, The Cold War: A world history, Allen Lane, 398/10, Barbara Keys
WHEATLEY, Nadia, Her Mother’s Daughter: A memoir, Text Publishing, 404/18, Kerryn Goldsworthy
WHISH-WILSON, David, The Coves, Fremantle Press, 405/59, Gillian Dooley
WHITE, Hugh, Without America: Australia in the new Asia (Quarterly Essay 68), Black Inc., 399/19, David Brophy
WILD, Kate, Waiting for Elijah, Scribe, 402/54, Johanna Leggatt
WILLESEE, Mike, Memoirs, Macmillan, 398/20, Richard Walsh
WILLIAMS, Robyn, Turmoil: Letters from the brink, NewSouth, 405/13, Danielle Clode
WILSON, Katherine, Tinkering: Australians reinvent DIY culture, Monash University Publishing, 398/66, Alex Tighe
WINTON, Tim, The Shepherd’s Hut, Hamish Hamilton, 399/34, Brenda Niall
WOLFF, Michael, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, Hachette, 399/11, Gideon Haigh
WOOD, James, Upstate, Jonathan Cape, 406/37, Brenda Niall
WOODWARD, Bob, Fear: Trump in the White House, Simon & Schuster, 406/10, Varun Ghosh
WOOLLETT, Laura Elizabeth, Beautiful Revolutionary, Scribe, 405/43, Anna MacDonald
WRIGHT, Alexis, Tracker: Stories of Tracker Tilmouth, Giramondo, 398/8, Michael Winkler
WRIGHT, Clare, You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians who won the vote and inspired the world, Text Publishing, 406/16, Maggie MacKellar
WRIGHT, Fiona, Domestic Interior, Giramondo, 401/40, Joan Fleming
WRIGHT, Fiona, The World was Whole, Giramondo, 405/14, Francesca Sasnaitis
ZIELONKA, Wellings, Counter-revolution: Liberal Europe in retreat, Oxford University Press, 405/15, Ben Wellings
ZIZEK, Slavoj, Frank Ruda, and Agon Hamza, Reading Marx, Polity Press, 404/42, Ali Alizadeh
ZUSAK, Markus, Bridge of Clay, Picador, 405/42, Nicole Abadee
2018 Features Index
ABR Arts
ABR Arts reviews can be read here
Arts commentary
GRANT, Sally, ‘The Brodie Set: Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’, 402/38
GUNAWARDANA, Dilan, ‘On Black Panther’, 402/43
McNAMARA, James, ‘The Drama of it: Television Comedy’s New Aesthetic’, 402/34
TREAGER, Peter, ‘Strange Times for Artistic Practice’, 404/50
Dance
CASEY, Maryrose, Dark Emu (Bangarra Dance Theatre), 405/66
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Giselle (Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company), online only
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, La Bayadère (Queensland Ballet), online only
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Le Dernier Appel (Marrugeku Dance Theatre), online only
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Milky Way – Ballet at the Quarry (West Australian Ballet), online only
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Murphy (The Australian Ballet), online only
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Spartacus (The Australian Ballet), 406/67
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, The Piano: The Ballet (Royal New Zealand Ballet), online only
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Xenos (Adelaide Festival), online only
Film
ALTMAN, Dennis, Boy Erased (Universal Pictures), 407/70
COWLEY, Des, Cold War (Palace Films), online only
CRAWFORD, Anwen, BlacKkKlansman (Universal Pictures), 404/51
CRAWFORD, Anwen, BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Madman Entertainment), online only
CRAWFORD, Anwen, Disobedience (Roadshow Films), online only
CRAWFORD, Anwen, Lady Bird (Universal Pictures and A24), 399/63
CRAWFORD, Anwen, Lean on Pete (Transmission Films), online only
CRAWFORD, Anwen, Loveless (Palace Films), 402/61
CRAWFORD, Anwen, The Death of Stalin (Madman Entertainment), 401/60
CRAWFORD, Anwen, You Were Never Really Here (Umbrella Entertainment), 405/65
GRANT, Sally, McQueen (Bleecker Street), online only
GUNAWARDANA, Dilan, The Disaster Artist, (Roadshow Films), 398/64
HARRIS, Lauren Carroll, Brothers’ Nest (Label Distribution), online only
HARRIS, Lauren Carroll, The Second, online only
KAGAN, Dion, Happy Hour (Transmission Films), online only
LAVI, Tali, Foxtrot (Sharmill Films), 403/72
McFARLANE, Brian, Breath (Roadshow Films), 402/60
McFARLANE, Brian, Darkest Hour (Universal Pictures), online only
McFARLANE, Brian, Peterloo (British Film Festival), online only
NETTE, Andrew, Suspiria (Transmission Films), online only
SASNAITIS, Francesca, The Insult (Palace Films), online only
SMITH, Barnaby, Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (Transmission Films), online only
SMITH, Barnaby, Gaugin: Voyage de Tahiti (Studio Canal), online only
SMITH, Barnaby, Human Flow (Roadshow Entertainment), 400/68
SMITH, Barnaby, Mary Shelley, online only
SMITH, Barnaby, The Wife (Icon Film Distribution), 404/59
SMITH, Barnaby, Wildlife (Roadshow Films), online only
WILSON, Jake, The Bookshop (Transmission Films), online only
WINDSOR, Harry, A Fantastic Woman (Sony Pictures), 400/69
WINDSOR, Harry, Sweet Country (Transmission Films), 399/62
WINDSOR, Harry, The Post (Entertainment One), online only
Music
APPLEBY, Rosalind, Jordi Savall, Hesperion XXI, and Tembembe Ensamble Continuo (Perth Festival), online only
COWLES, Des, 2018 Melbourne International Jazz Festival, online only
COWLEY, Des, Kites of Tianjin (fortyfivedownstairs), online only
COWLEY, Des, The Calling (fortyfivedownstairs), online only
COWLEY, Des, Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues, online only
FITZPATRICK, Sheila, Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, online only
FRASER, Morag, L’Enfance du Christ (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), online only
FRASER, Morag, The Dream of Gerontius (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), online only
ROSE, Peter, Die Walküre, Act One (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), online only
ROSE, Peter, Tristan und Isolde (West Australian Symphony Orchestra), online only
SZABÓ, Zoltan, Anne-Sophie Mutter in concert with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, online only
SZABÓ, Zoltan, 'Beethoven’s Nine, Ode to Joy' (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), online only
SZABÓ, Zoltan, Brahms Revelation (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), online only
SZABÓ, Zoltan, Daniel Barenboim conducting Staatskapelle Berlin (Sydney Opera House), online only
SZABÓ, Zoltan, David Robertson and Emanuel Ax’s Mozart concert series (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), online only
SZABÓ, Zoltan, Dramatic Mozart, Seductive Mozart, and Magnificent Mozart (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), 399/70
SZABÓ, Zoltan, Mahler Six (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), 404/62
SZABÓ, Zoltan, Mahler’s Sixth Symphony (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), online only
Opera
CARMODY, John, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Bayreuth Festival), online only
DICKSON, Ian, Athalia (Pinchgut Opera), online only
HALLIWELL, Michael, Artaserse (Pinchgut Opera), online only
HALLIWELL, Michael, Don Quichotte (Opera Australia), 401/61
HALLIWELL, Michael, La Traviata (Opera Australia), online only
HALLIWELL, Michael, Metamorphosis (Opera Australia), online only
HALLIWELL, Michael, Parsifal and The Flying Dutchman (Bavarian State Opera), online only
KERTESZ, Elizabeth, Otello (Melbourne Opera), online only
ROSE, Peter, Cendrillon and Lucia di Lammermoor and Tosca (Metropolitan Opera), online only
ROSE, Peter, Così fan tutte (Metropolitan Opera), online only
ROSE, Peter, Lucia di Lammermoor and Aida (Opera Australia), online only
SHMITH, Michael, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (Opera Australia), 407/73
SHMITH, Michael, Stuart Skelton (Melbourne Recital Centre), online only
SHMITH, Michael, William Tell (Victorian Opera), 403/74
SZABÓ, Zoltan, Riccardo Muti conducts the Australian World Orchestra, online only
SZABÓ, Zoltan, The Nose (Opera Australia), online only
TREGEAR, Peter, Evita (Opera Australia), 405/71
WILLS, Gillian, Peter Grimes (Brisbane Festival), online only
ZWARTZ, Barney, Der Rosenkavalier (Melbourne Opera), online only
ZWARTZ, Barney, Tristan and Isolde (Melbourne Opera), online only
Theatre
BETROS, Gemma, Au revoir la-haut (See You Up There), 401/56
BOON, Maxim, Bottomless (fortyfivedownstairs), online only
BROOKER, Ben, A Doll's House, Part 2 (Melbourne Theatre Company), online only
BROOKER, Ben, After Dinner (State Theatre Company of South Australia), 401/63
BROOKER, Ben, Assassins (Black Swan State Theatre Company), online only
BROOKER, Ben, Brothers Wreck (written and directed by Jada Alberts), 403/73
BROOKER, Ben, Creditors (State Theatre Company), online only
BROOKER, Ben, Gloria (Melbourne Theatre Company), online only
BROOKER, Ben, Kings of War (Adelaide Festival), online only
BROOKER, Ben, Sense and Sensibility (State Theatre Company of South Australia), online only
BROOKER, Ben, That Eye, The Sky (State Theatre Company), online only
BROOKER, Ben, Thyestes (The Hayloft Project), 400/73
BYRNE, Tim, Scaramouche Jones (Wander Productions), 404/56
BYRNE, Tim, Strangers in Between (fortyfivedownstairs), online only
BYRNE, Tim, Twelfth Night (Melbourne Theatre Company), 407/71
BYRNE, Tim, Watt (performed at the Playhouse, Arts Centre), 406/56
CARMODY, John, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (Richard Wagner Festival Theatre), 404/55
CRAVEN, Peter, Julius Caesar (Bell Shakespeare Company), 404/58
DAVIDSON, Jim, Barry Humphries: The Man Behind the Mask, 403/75
DICKSON, Ian, A Cheery Soul (written by Patrick White and directed by Kip Williams), 406/68
DICKSON, Ian, Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Sydney Theatre Company), online only
DICKSON, Ian, An Enemy of the People (Belvoir St Theatre), online only
DICKSON, Ian, Degenerate Art (Red Line Productions), online only
DICKSON, Ian, Still Point Turning: The Catherine McGregor Story (Sydney Theatre Company), 402/63
DICKSON, Ian, The Children (Sydney Theatre Company/Melbourne Theatre Company), 401/57
DICKSON, Ian, The Dance of Death (Belvoir St Theatre), online only
DICKSON, Ian, The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui (Sydney Theatre Company), online only
DICKSON, Ian, Top Girls (Sydney Theatre Company), 399/71
FUHRMANN, Andrew, Waiting for Godot (Wits’End), 398/60
FUHRMANN, Andrew, Wild (Melbourne Theatre Company), online only
GRUBER, Fiona, Bliss (Malthouse Theatre), 402/65
GRUBER, Fiona, Fury (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre), online only
GUNAWARDANA, Dilan, On Body and Soul (Daricheh Cinema), online only
HAINING, Maggie, Hedda (Bille Brown Theatre), 407/69
HAINING, Maggie, Nearer the Gods (Queensland Theatre Company), online only
HALLIWELL, Michael, Dry River Run (Queensland Conservatorium), online only
HALLIWELL, Michael, Hamlet (Adelaide Festival), 400/72
HARTNELL, Laura, The Harp in the South (Sydney Theatre Company), 405/62
LAVI, Tali, Hir (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre), 399/67
LAVI, Tali, The Antipodes (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre), online only
LEVER, Susan, Antony and Cleopatra (Bell Shakespeare), 400/75
LEVER, Susan, I'm Not Running (National Theatre), online only
LEVER, Susan, Muriel’s Wedding: The Musical (Sydney Theatre Company/Global Creatures), 398/63
LEY, James, Krapp's Last Tape (fortyfivedownstairs), online only
MORLEY, Michael, Memorial and human requiem (Adelaide Festival), online only
RICKARD, John, The Dressmaker: A Musical Adaptation (Monash University), online only
ROSE, Peter, Three Tall Women (John Golden Theatre, New York), 402/63
SIMMONDS, Fiona, Saint Joan (Sydney Theatre Company), online only
SPITZKOWSKY, Fiona, Prize Fighter (La Boite Theatre Company), online only
SZABÓ, Zoltan, Scenes from a Marriage (Sydney Opera House), online only
WILSON, Jake, The Bookshop (Transmission Films), 402/66
YEOMAN, Will, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (Black Swan State Theatre Company), 402/67
Visual Arts
CLARK, Jane, Colony: Australia 1770–1861 / Frontier Wars (National Gallery of Victoria), online only
ENNIS, Helen, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium (Art Gallery of New South Wales), 398/61
FRASER, Morag, Masters of Modern Art from the Hermitage (Art Gallery of New South Wales), 406/58
FRASER, Morag, The Lady and the Unicorn (Art Gallery of New South Wales), 400/71
GLISIC, Iva, A Window on Italy – The Corsini Collection: Masterpieces from Florence (Art Gallery of Western Australia), online only
GRANT, Sally, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), online only
GRANT, Sally, Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia (Phillips Collection, Washington, DC), 405/64
GRUBER, Fiona, Patricia Piccinini and Joy Hester, Through Love (TarraWarra Museum of Art), online only
GUNN, Grazia, The Field Revisited and Robert Hunter (NGV Australia), online only
HAMMERSCHLAG, Keren Rosa, John Russell: Australia’s French Impressionist (Art Gallery of New South Wales), 404/54
HAMMERSCHLAG, Keren Rosa, Love and Desire: Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces from the Tate (National Gallery of Australia), online only
KNEZIC, Sophie, Del Kathryn Barton: The Highway is a Disco, Louise Paramor: Palace of the Republic, Our Knowing and Not Knowing: Helen Maudsley, and Gareth Sansom: Transformer (all at National Gallery Victoria), 398/62
KNEZIC, Sophie, Escher X nendo | Between Two Worlds (National Gallery of Victoria), online only
KNEZIC, Sophie, Hilarie Mais (TarraWarra Museum of Art), online only
KNEZIC, Sophie, TarraWarra Biennial 2018: From Will to Form (TarraWarra Museum of Art), online only
KNEZIC, Sophie, The Hilarie Mais exhibition (TarraWarra Museum of Art), 400/74
McCAUGHEY, Patrick, Andy Warhol — From A to B and Back Again (Whitney Museum of American Art), online only
NETTE, Andrew, Wonderland (ACMI), online only
OCHOA, Gabriel Garcia, Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915–1985 (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), online only
STIEVEN-TAYLOR, Alison, David Goldblatt: Photographs 1948–2018 (Museum of Contemporary Art), online only
Commentary
CHAPLIN, Felicity, ‘Witch-hunt or a great awakening?: Tensions Surround the #MeToo Movement’, 402/28
DAMOUSI, Joy, ‘Protecting the National Interest: A Covert Attack on Independent Scholarly Research’, 407/19
DAVIS, Glyn, ‘The PM Years by Kevin Rudd’, online only
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, ‘Odysseus and Me’, 400/58
MACDONALD, Ranald, ‘The Voice of Australia: Defending the Principle of an Independent and Well-Funded ABC’, 403/9
RICKARDS, Lauren, ‘Aluminium Dreams’, 405/29
Fellowships
COLLINS, Paul, ‘God and Caesar in Australia: The close nexus between government and Catholicism’, ABR RAFT Fellowship essay 399/40
SILCOX, Beejay, ‘Defying the moment’, ABR Fortieth Birthday Fellowship essay, 399/14
SILCOX, Beejay, ‘The Art of Pain: Writing in the Age of Trauma’, ABR Fortieth Birthday Fellowship essay, 406/29
SILCOX, Beejay,‘We Are All MFAs Now: The Rise and Rise of American Creative Writing Degrees’, ABR Fortieth Birthday Fellowship essay, 403/17
Fiction
FINN, S.J., ‘Joan Mercer’s Fertile Head’, online only
RICHARDS, Allee, ‘What This Is’, online only
RIWOE, Mirandi, ‘Hardflip’, online only
TASKER, Michael Caleb, ‘Clear Midnight’, online only
WILSON, Chloe, ‘Break Character’, online only
Tribute
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, ‘An Imagination on High Alert: Dorothy Porter (1954–2008)’, 407/50
Prizes
Calibre Essay Prize
GRAINGER-BROWN, Lucas, ‘We Three Hundred’, 400/45
TRANTER, Kirsten, ‘Once Again: Outside in the House of Art’, 401/29
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
CHONG, Eileen, ‘Compass’, 399/31
HEALY, Katherine, ‘Decoding Paul Klee’s Mit Grunen Strumpfen (With Green Stockings) 1939’, 399/33
HOLT, L.K., ‘The Abstract Blue Background’, 399/32
SLAUGHTER, Tracey, ‘breather’, 399/33
WONG, Nicholas, ‘101, Taipei’, 399/30
ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
AMAN, Claire, ‘Vasco’, 403/24
APHRODITE, Sharmini, ‘Between the Mountain and the Sea’, 403/35
LUCAS, Madelaine, ‘Ruins’, 403/44
Interviews
Publisher of the Month
CALLIL, Carmen, 403/70
FEIK, Chris, 405/60
HOLLIER, Nathan, 400/66
MORRISON, Rod, 399/72
Open Page
ETTLER, Justine, 401/64
HAIGH, Gideon, 406/54
KRISTINA OLSSON, 405/56
MASTERS, Chris, 398/68
O’NEILL, Ryan, 404/48
SENTILLES, Sarah, 400/76
SUMMERS, Anne, 407/66
TREMAIN, Rose, 403/76
Poet of the Month
BROPHY, Kevin, 407/54
BROWN, Pam, 401/54
MEAD, Philip, 402/58
WEARNE, Alan, online only
Critic of the Month
NIALL, Brenda, 402/68
Poetry
Poems
ALBISTON, Jordie, ‘break’, 403/56
ALLISON, Davina, ‘Wittgenstein, 1951, Peppered Moth’, 405/16
BEVERIDGE, Judith, ‘The Boathouse’, 400/64
BISHOP, Judith, ‘Recital’, 406/50
ECKERMANN, Ali Cobby, ‘The Cave of Bliss’, 404/15
ELVEY, Anne, ‘Natality’, 401/19
FARRELL, Michael, ‘Syllabic Patterning’, 403/29
GORTON, Lisa, ‘Landscape with Magic Lantern Slides’, 405/41
HIRSHFIELD, Jane, ‘Interruption: An Assay’, 402/17
HOFMANN, Michael, ‘Cyndi Lauper’, 407/53
HOSE, Duncan, ‘Dalgety Dalgety’, 404/21
KINSELLA, John, ‘Inverting Holderlin’s “Geh unter, schone Sonne”’, 400/29
KLEINZAHLER, August, ‘“Coming On The Hudson”: Weehawken’, 406/42
LAWRENCE, Anthony, ‘The Measurement Institute’, 407/40
MANNING, Julie, ‘Four Rooms’, 401/41
PATTERSON, Ian, ‘The Field’, 401/53
PORTER, Dorothy, ‘Faith’, 407/51
RYAN, Gig, ‘Spring Idylls’, 400/41
SCOTT, John A., Herr Doktor Tulp’s Interrogation (1942), 398/45
States of Poetry
NB the poems listed below are a selection from the States of Poetry anthologies which appeared in print. The complete anthologies can be found and read online here.
BURTON, Pascalle, ‘stones sequence sucked’, 398/49
FERNEY, Liam, ‘Main Street Social’, 398/48
FROST, Zenobia, ‘before / now’, 398/49
JACOBSON, Anna, ‘Discovery’, 398/49
PLUNKETT, Felicity, ‘Poetry in Queensland’, 398/47
STAVANGER, David, ‘Stock Market’, 398/48
WATSON, Samuel Wagan, ‘When we dreamt like Kerouac, 398/48
Surveys
Arts Highlights of the Year
ALLISON, John, 406/59
BOWER, Humphrey, 406/59
BROOKER, Ben, 406/59
BYRNE, Tim, 406/59
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, 406/59
COSLOVICH, Gabriella, 406/59
CRAVEN, Peter, 406/59
CRAWFORD, Anwen, 406/59
DICKSON, Ian, 406/59
GRUBER, Fiona, 406/59
HALLIWELL, Michael, 406/59
KILDEA, Paul, 406/59
KNEZIC, Sophie, 406/59
LAVI, Tali, 406/59
LEVER, Susan, 406/59
McCAUGHEY, Patrick, 406/59
McFARLANE, Brian, 406/59
MORLEY, Michael, 406/59
RADFORD, Ron, 406/59
ROSE, Peter, 406/59
SCHOFIELD, Lee, 406/59
SHMITH, Michael, 406/59
SIMMONDS, Diana, 406/59
SZABO, Zoltan, 406/59
TREGEAR, Peter, 406/59
WILLIAMS, Kim, 406/59
WILLS, Gillian, 406/59
YEOMAN, Will, 406/59
ZWARTZ, Barney, 406/59
Books of the Year
ALTMAN, Dennis, 407/29
BEVERIDGE, Judith, 407/29
BISHOP, Judith, 407/29
BONGIORNO, Frank, 407/29
CORBOULD, Clare, 407/29
DAVIS, Glyn, 407/29
DAY, Gregory, 407/29
DE KRETSER, Michelle, 407/29
EDELE, Mark, 407/29
EDWARDS, Astrid, 407/29
FITZPATRICK, Sheila, 407/29
FRASER, Morag, 407/29
FREEMAN-GREENE, Suzy, 407/29
GILES, Paul, 407/29
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, 407/29
GOLDSWORTHY, Kerryn, 407/29
GORTON, Lisa, 407/29
GRIFFITHS, Tom, 407/29
HAIGH, Gideon, 407/29
HAWKE, John, 407/29
KINSELLA, John, 407/29
LAKE, Marilyn, 407/29
LEY, James, 407/29
LYNCH, Anthony, 407/29
McCOOEY, David, 407/29
NIALL, Brenda, 407/29
PAGE, Geoff, 407/29
PLUNKETT, Felicity, 407/29
SHERIDAN, Susan, 407/29
SILCOX, Beejay, 407/29
WALKER, Brenda, 407/29
WILLIAMSON, Geordie, 407/29
WRIGHT, Fiona, 407/29
WYNDHAM, Susan, 407/29
Publisher Picks
BIN SALLEH, Rachel, 398/31
CHRISTER, Nikki, 398/31
CURNOW, Meredith, 398/31
DUFFY, Madonna, 398/31
HEYWARD, Michael, 398/31
IMLAH, Matilda, 398/31
McGUINNESS, Phillipa, 398/31
MORRISON, Rod, 398/31
RICHTER, Georgia, 398/31
SCOTT, Barry, 398/31
Favourite Films
ADDISON, Alice, 402/47
CHAPLIN, Felicity, 402/47
CRAWFORD, Anwen, 402/47
DEACON, Desley, 402/47
DU FRESNE, Kylie, 402/47
HARRISS, Lauren Carroll, 402/47
HAWKER, Philippa, 402/47
JONES, Gail, 402/47
KAGAN, Dion, 402/47
McFARLANE, Brian, 402/47
McNAMARA, James, 402/47
PEARCE, Craig, 402/47
PRESCOTT, Nick, 402/47
ROMEI, Stephen, 402/47
ROSE, Peter, 402/47
SHERMAN, Emile, 402/47
WILSON, Jake, 402/47
ARC Grant Controversy
BRETT, Andre, 407/20
DONALDSON, Ian, 407/20
EDELE, Mark, 407/20
FEATHERSTONE, Lisa, 407/20
FULLAGAR, Kate, 407/20
GARDNER, Margaret, 407/20
GARTON, Stephen, 407/20
GRIFFITHS, Tom, 407/20
HARRIS, Margaret, 407/20
KEVIN, Catherine, 407/20
MEAD, Philip, 407/20
PHIDDIAN, Robert, 407/20
SCHMIDT, Brian, 407/20
2019 Jolley Prize Judges
Maxine Beneba Clarke is a widely published Australian writer of Afro-Caribbean descent. Clarke's short fiction, non-fiction and poetry have been published in numerous publications including Overland, The Age, Meanjin, The Saturday Paper and The Big Issue. Her critically acclaimed short fiction collection Foreign Soil won the ABIA for Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2015 and the 2015 Indie Book Award for Début Fiction, and was shortlisted for the 2015 Stella Prize. She was one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Novelists for 2015. Clarke has published three poetry collections including Carrying the World, which won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry 2017 and was shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Award. The Hate Race, a memoir about growing up black in Australia won the NSW Premier's Literary Award Multicultural NSW Award 2017 and was shortlisted for an ABIA, an Indie Award, the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and Stella Prize. The Patchwork Bike, her first picture book with Van T. Rudd was a CBCA Honour Book for 2017.
John Kinsella is the author of over forty books. His most recent publications include the novel Lucida Intervalla (UWA Publishing 2018), Open Door (UWA Publishing, 2018); On the Outskirts (UQP, 2017), and Drowning in Wheat: Selected poems (Picador, 2016). His poetry collections have won a variety of awards, including the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry and the Christopher Brennan Award for Poetry. His volumes of stories include In the Shade of the Shady Tree (Ohio University Press, 2012), Crow’s Breath (Transit Lounge, 2015), and Old Growth (Transit Lounge, 2017). His volumes of criticism include Activist Poetics: Anarchy in the Avon Valley (Liverpool University Press, 2010) and Polysituatedness (Manchester University Press, 2017). He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and Professor of Literature and Environment at Curtin University. With Tracy Ryan he is the co-editor of The Fremantle Press Anthology of The Western Australian Poetry (2017). He lives with his family in the Western Australian wheatbelt.
Beejay Silcox is an Australian writer, literary critic and cultural commentator, and the recipient of ABR’s Fortieth Birthday Fellowship. Her award-winning short fiction has been published at home and internationally and recently anthologised in Meanjin A-Z: Fine Fiction 1980 to Now, and Best Summer Stories 2018. Her story ‘Slut Trouble’ was commended in the 2016 Jolley Prize and republished in Best Australian Stories 2017. She is currently based in Cairo - writing from a house in the middle of an island, in the middle of the Nile.
2019 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
2019 Jolley Prize Winner: Sonja Dechian
ABR is delighted to announce that Sonja Dechian is the overall winner of the 2019 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story ‘The Point-Blank Murder’. Sonja Dechian receives $5,000. Raaza Jamshed was placed second for her story 'Miracle Windows', and Morgan Nunan was placed third for his story 'Rubble Boy'. We would like to congratulate all three shortlisted entrants and thank all those who entered their stories in the Jolley Prize.
The ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize is one of the country’s most prestigious awards for short fiction. This year the Jolley Prize attracted almost 1,400 entries from 35 different countries. The judges were Maxine Beneba Clarke, John Kinsella, and Beejay Silcox. The three shortlisted stories appear in our September Fiction 2018 issue.
The judges have also commended three stories: 'Hero Manifest' by Bill Collopy, 'Lizard Boy' by Brendan Sargeant, and 'Supermarket Love' by Elleke Boehmer. The commended stories will appear online in due course. The shortlisted and commended stories were selected from a longlist of ten stories, all listed below.
About the 2019 Jolley Prize finalists:
WINNER
Sonja Dechian is the author of the short story collection An Astronaut’s Life, which won the 2016 UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing and was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award the same year. Her writing has previously appeared in The Best Australian Stories, New Australian Stories 2, and elsewhere. She has co-edited two books of children’s writing about the Australian refugee experience, No Place Like Home and Dark Dreams.
SECOND
Raaza Jamshed is a writer and researcher drawn to the poetics of gender, language, and identity. She is a Doctor of Creative Arts candidate at Western Sydney University and is currently compiling her short fiction in a collection. Two of her recent stories have been published in Meanjin. Raaza has lived in four different continents in the last decade; she currently resides in the historic town of Richmond, New South Wales, with her husband, two children and a small band of Arab horses.
THIRD
Morgan Nunan is an emerging Australian writer based in Melbourne. He currently studies creative writing at RMIT University. His short fiction has been published in a number of Australian literary magazines, most recently appearing in Gargouille Literary Journal. As a practising media lawyer, Morgan is an adviser to several large media and technology organisations. He holds a BA (English) and LLB from La Trobe University.
The 2019 Jolley Prize longlist
Commended: 'Supermarket Love' by Elleke Boehmer (United Kingdom)
Commended: 'Hero Manifest' by Bill Collopy (Victoria)
'The Manque' by Steph Cornish (New South Wales)
Winner: 'The Point-Blank Murder' by Sonja Dechian (Victoria)
'The Net' by D.J. Huppatz (Victoria)
Second: 'Miracle Windows' by Raaza Jamshed (New South Wales)
'Rewilding' by Jennifer Mills (South Australia)
Third: 'Rubble Boy' by Morgan Nunan (Victoria)
Commended: 'Lizard Boy' by Brendan Sargeant (ACT)
'Holding the Torch' by Tracey Slaughter (New Zealand)
Please read the Frequently Asked Questions page before contacting us with queries about the Jolley Prize.
Click here for more information about past winners and to read their stories
ABR gratefully acknowledges Mr Ian Dickson's generous support for the Jolley Prize.
2019 Calibre Essay Prize Judges
J.M. Coetzee was born in South Africa and educated in South Africa and the United States. He has published nineteen works of fiction, as well as criticism and translations. Among awards he has won are the Booker Prize (twice) and, in 2003, the Nobel Prize for Literature. He is currently Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide.
Lisa Gorton, who lives in Melbourne, is a poet, novelist, and critic, and a former Poetry Editor of ABR. She studied at the Universities of Melbourne and Oxford. A Rhodes Scholar, she completed a Masters in Renaissance Literature and a Doctorate on John Donne at Oxford University. Her review essays and poetry have appeared in ABR since 2002. Her first poetry collection, Press Release (2007), won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry. She has also been awarded the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize and the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal. Lisa’s novel The Life of Houses (2015) shared the 2016 Prime Minister’s Award for fiction and received the NSW Premier’s People’s Choice Award. Her third poetry collection Empirical appeared with Giramondo in 2019.
Peter Rose has been Editor of Australian Book Review since 2001. Previously he was a publisher at Oxford University Press. His reviews and essays have appeared mostly in ABR. He has published six books of poetry, two novels, and a family memoir, Rose Boys (Text Publishing), which won the 2003 National Biography Award. He edited the 2007 and 2008 editions of The Best Australian Poems (Black Inc.). His most recent publication is a volume of poems, The Subject of Feeling (UWA Publishing, 2015).
2020 Calibre Essay Prize
The winner of the 2020 Calibre Essay Prize is Yves Rees for their essay 'Reading the Mess Backwards' which appears in our June-July 2020 issue. The runner up is Kate Middleton for her essay 'The Dolorimeter' which will appear in the August 2020 issue.
For more information about Yves Rees and Kate Middleton and the results of the 2020 Calibre Essay Prize click here.
Prize money: $7,500
Closed: 15 January 2020, 11:59 pm
Judges: J.M. Coetzee, Lisa Gorton, and Peter Rose
The Calibre Essay Prize is open to all essayists writing in English. We seek essays of between 2,000 and 5,000 words on any subject. We welcome essays of all kinds: personal or political, literary or speculative, traditional or experimental. Founded in 2007, the Calibre Prize is one of the world’s leading prizes for a new non-fiction essay. We look forward to running the Calibre Essay Prize again in 2021.
Click the link for more information about past winners and to read their essays.
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Exclusivity
Entries may be offered elsewhere during the judging of the Calibre Prize. If an entrant is longlisted and has their essay offered elsewhere, the entrant will have 24 hours to decide if they would like to withdraw their essay on offer elsewhere or from the Calibre Prize. Exclusivity is essential for longlisted essays. The overall winning essay will be published in the magazine in the May 2020 with the runner-up to be published later in the year.
Entry fees
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Online entry (full-time student) - $15
Online entry (standard/non subscriber) - $25*
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Online entry + Print subscription (Australia) - $100
Online entry + Print subscription (NZ and Asia) - $165
Online entry + Print subscription (Rest of World) - $180
We gratefully acknowledge the long-standing support of Colin Golvan AM QC, and Peter McLennan and Mary-Ruth Sindrey.
2018 Jolley Prize winner: Madelaine Lucas
Announcing the 2018 Jolley Prize winner
ABR is delighted to announce Madelaine Lucas as the overall winner of the 2018 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story ‘Ruins’. Madelaine Lucas receives $7,000. Sharmini Aphrodite was placed second for her story 'Between the Mountain and the Sea' and Claire Aman placed third for her story 'Vasco'. We would like to congratulate all three shortlisted entrants and thank all those who entered their stories in the Jolley Prize.
The ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize is one of the country’s most prestigious awards for short fiction. This year the Jolley Prize attracted almost 1,200 entries from forty-two different countries. The judges were Patrick Allington, Michelle Cahill, and Beejay Silcox. The three shortlisted stories appear in our August 2018 issue.
About Madelaine Lucas
Madelaine Lucas is an Australian writer and musician based in Brooklyn,New York. She is the senior editor of NOON literary annual and a teaching fellow at Columbia University, where she is completing her MFA in fiction. She has been the winner of the Overland/Victoria University Short Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Griffith University Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize. She is currently at work on her first novel. Read her winning story 'Ruins'.
Listen below to Madelaine Lucas reading an extract from 'Ruins'.
2019 Porter Prize Judges
Judith Bishop is Director of Linguistic Services at a multinational language technology company. Her poems have won many awards, including the Peter Porter Poetry Prize (2006, 2011). Her first book, Event (Salt, 2007), won the FAW Anne Elder award and was shortlisted for the CJ Dennis Prize, the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, and the ASAL Mary Gilmore Prize. She has recently published a second collection, Interval (UQP, 2018).
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. He is ABR's Poetry Editor.
Paul Kane is poetry editor of Antipodes and artistic director of the Mildura Writers Festival. His most recent books are Renga: 100 Poems (with John Kinsella) and A Passing Bell: Ghazals for Tina. He teaches at Vassar College, as Professor of English, and divides his time between New York and rural Victoria.
2019 Peter Porter Poetry Prize
Andy Kissane and Belle Ling, joint winners of the 2019 Peter Porter Poetry Prize.Andy Kissane and Belle Ling are the joint winners of the 2019 Peter Porter Poetry Prize, worth a total of $8,500. This is Australia’s premier prize for an original poem. Andy Kissane's winning poem is titled 'Searching the Dead', and Belle Ling's winning poem is titled '63 Temple Street, Mong Kok'.
The winners were named at a ceremony at fortyfivedownstairs in Melbourne on 18 March 2019.
This year’s judges – Judith Bishop, John Kawke, Paul Kane – shortlisted five poems from almost 900 entries, from 28 countries. The shortlisted poets were John Foulcher (ACT), Ross Gillett (Vic.), Andy Kissane (NSW), Belle Ling (QLD/Hong Kong), and Mark Tredinnick (NSW).
Porter Prize judge Judith Bishop (representing the judges) commented:
‘In Belle Ling’s “63 Temple St, Mong Kok”, other voices are rendered equally as vividly as the speaker’s own. Together they create the generous and gentle texture of this exceptionally resonant work.’
‘Andy Kissane’s “Searching the Dead” recounts a moment in Australian history – our soldiers’ involvement in the Vietnam War – that has not been captured before in this way. This dense, strongly physical and evocative poem grips the reader’s mind and body, and that imprint remains long after reading.’
About the shortlisted poets:
John Foulcher has written eleven books of poetry, most recently 101 Poems (Pitt Street Poetry 2015), a selection from his previous books, and A Casual Penance (Pitt Street Poetry 2017). His work has appeared in Australian magazines and anthologies for more than thirty-five years, and he has received and been shortlisted for many awards. He divides his time between Canberra and an old Catholic church which he is renovating near the town of Braidwood in New South Wales.
Ross Gillett is a Melbourne-born poet who now lives in Daylesford. In 2010 he published a chapbook of old and new poems – Wundawax and other poems – with Mark Time Books. His next book will be published by Puncher & Wattmann later in 2019. He has won numerous Australian poetry awards, including the Broadway Poetry Prize, the FAW John Shaw Neilson Award (twice), and, most recently, the 2018 Newcastle Poetry Prize. He has been twice shortlisted for the Blake Poetry Prize. Ross’s previous career was with the Victorian Public Service, finishing as a project manager for the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning in Ballarat and Daylesford, where he specialised in the implementation of native title agreements.
Andy Kissane has published a novel, a book of short stories, The Swarm, and four books of poetry. Awards for his poetry include the Fish International Poetry Prize, the Australian Poetry Journal’s Poem of the Year and the Tom Collins Poetry Prize. Radiance (Puncher & Wattmann, 2014) was shortlisted for the Victorian and Western Australian Premier’s Prizes for Poetry and the Adelaide Festival Awards. He recently co-edited a book of criticism on Australian poetry, Feeding the Ghost. His fifth poetry collection, The Tomb of the Unknown Artist will be published in June 2019. He teaches English and lives in Sydney.
Belle Ling is a PhD student in Creative Writing at The University of Queensland. Her poetry manuscript, Rabbit-Light, was awarded Highly Commended in the 2018 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. Her first poetry collection, A Seed and a Plant, was shortlisted for The HKU International Poetry Prize 2010. Her poem, ‘That Space’, was placed second in the ESL category of the International Poetry Competition organized by the Oxford Brookes University in October 2016. She was awarded a Merit Scholarship at the New York State Summer Writers Institute in 2017.
Mark Tredinnick is a poet, essayist, and teacher. He is the author of The Blue Plateau: A Landscape Memoir, which won the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award), and Fire Diary, a book of poetry that won the WA Premier’s Book Prize. Beyond these, Mark is author of nine other acclaimed works of poetry and prose. Mark has also written several books on writing itself. He was co-winner of the 2008 Calibre Prize for his essay ‘A Storm and a Teacup’, and he won the Montreal Poetry Prize in 2011 and the Cardiff Poetry Prize in 2012.
Click here for more information about past winners and to read their poems.
We look forward to offering the Porter Prize again in 2020.
We gratefully acknowledge the long-standing support of Morag Fraser AM, and the support of ABR Patrons. The print is donated by Ivan Durrant in honour of Georges Mora.
