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Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

by Tracy Ryan, Jim Dal, Naim Kassar and Stephen Kimber
September 2022, no. 446

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Letters to the Editor

by Patrick Hockey, Sam Abu Hadid, John Carmody, and Roger Rees
July 2022, no. 444

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Letters to the Editor

by Marc Mierowsky, Lisa Fletcher, David Mason, and Tim Lenehan
August 2022, no. 445

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Letters to the Editor

by Hessom Razavi, Elizabeth Tynan, Susan Lever and Ian Campbell
June 2022, no. 443

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Thank you for publishing Susan Ryan’s provocative and concisely argued lecture, ‘Freedom to Write’ (ABR, October 1988). However, there is one assertion that I would seriously dispute, namely that ‘we have in Australia a healthy publishing industry ... which allows the genuine, talented and committed writer to appear in print’. This is nonsense.

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Not half as nice

Dear Editor,

Nothing jolts a writer like finding that her book has been read in serious discord with her intentions and produced the last effect she’d have wanted. Heather Neilson (ABR, October 2002) thinks I’m ‘preaching’ and condemning to outer darkness those who don’t agree with me. This is disquieting, but also salutary.

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Letters to the Editor: Tony Kevin from Gordon writes on Jeff Sparrow's Trigger Warnings; John Lowe from Ormond on D. H. Lawrence; and some comments on Behrouz Boochani and his poem 'Flight from Manus' ...

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Letters to the Editor

by Josh Stenberg, Ken Ward, Clare Rhoden, Norma Pilling, and Suzanne Jill Levine
September 2021, no. 435

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Letters to the Editor

by John Carmody, Adele Dumont
May 2021, no. 431

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