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About Christiane Conésa-Bostock | States of Poetry TAS - Series Two

States of Poetry Tasmania - Series Two 19 April 2018
Christiane Conésa-Bostock was born in Lyon, France and has lived in Hobart since the 1970s. Christiane, along with The Grove Road Poets (Karen Knight, Liz Mc Quilkin, Liz Winfield, and Megan Schaffner), won First Prize in the Fellowship of Australian Writers competition in 2010 with their book Of Things being Various which was published in 2011.Christiane’s solo poetry collection De passage de ... (read more)

About Gina Mercer | States of Poetry TAS - Series Two

States of Poetry Tasmania - Series Two 19 April 2018
Gina Mercer enjoys a three-stranded career as writer, teacher, and editor. She has taught creative writing and literature in universities and communities for thirty years. She was Managing Editor of Island magazine, 2006–10. She has published a novel, Parachute Silk (Spinifex Press, 2001) and two academic books (UQP, 1994; Peter Lang, New York, 2001). Gina has published five collections of poet ... (read more)

About Jim Everett-puralia meenamatta | States of Poetry TAS - Series Two

States of Poetry Tasmania - Series Two 19 April 2018
Jim Everett-puralia meenamatta was born at Flinders Island, Tasmania in 1942. He is from the clan plangermairreenner of the Ben Lomond people, a clan of the Cape Portland nation in north-east Tasmania. His working life includes fifteen years at sea as a fisherman and merchant seaman, the Australian Regular Army for three years, and over fifty years formal involvement in the Aboriginal Struggle. He ... (read more)

About James Charlton | States of Poetry TAS - Series Two

States of Poetry Tasmania - Series Two 18 April 2018
James Charlton graduated from the University of Tasmania, and from Flinders University and the University of Cambridge. He was Poetry Editor of Island magazine and Advisory Editor for Australasia of Chautauqua Literary Journal, published in upstate New York. Charlton earned his PhD from the University of Tasmania and his MA from the University of Cambridge. He is a poet and theological writer with ... (read more)

#20 Forty years of ABR: Peter Rose in conversation with Beejay Silcox

The ABR Podcast 18 April 2018
Peter Rose spoke to Beejay Silcox, recipient of Australian Book Review Fortieth Birthday Fellowship, about developments at ABR since the revival of the magazine's second series in 1978. Beejay also discusses her Fellowship essay, 'Defying the moment', an engaging in-depth look at Australian magazine culture featuring interviews with several leading editors: Jonathan Green (Meanjin), Nick Feik (The ... (read more)

The Update - April 10, 2018

ABR Arts 10 April 2018
Recent ABR Arts reviews Lee Christofis reviews La Bayadère (Queensland Ballet) ★★1/2 Ian Dickson reviews The Children (Sydney Theatre Company / Melbourne Theatre Company) ★★★★ Jane Clark reviews Colony: Australia 1770-1861 / Frontier Wars (National Gallery of Victoria) Ian Dickson reviews The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Sydney Theatre Company) ★★★ Melbourne I ... (read more)

2018 Peter Porter Poetry Prize winner

Competitions and programs 20 March 2018
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, receive ... (read more)

About Anne Kellas | States of Poetry TAS - Series Two

States of Poetry Tasmania - Series Two 08 March 2018
Anne Kellas’s third collection – The White Room Poems (Walleah Press, 2015) – was shortlisted for the Margaret Scott Prize in the 2017 Tasmanian Premier’s Literary awards. Written with the support of an Australia Council grant, it also received a Blue Giraffe Press poetry award. Isolated States, supported by an Arts Tasmania grant, was published by Tim Thorne’s Cornford Press (2001), whi ... (read more)

#19 Michael Adams reads 'Salt Blood'

The ABR Podcast 05 March 2018
Each year, ABR’s prestigious Calibre Essay Prize, one of the world’s leading prizes for a new essay, attracts some of the finest writers from Australia and overseas. Last year, the first prize of $5,000 was awarded to Michael Adams, an associate professor of Human Geography at the Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research at the University of Wollongong. Before that, Michael worke ... (read more)

2018 Peter Porter Poetry Prize Shortlist

March 2018, no. 399 22 February 2018
101, Taipei after the Mandopop song ‘Centrifugal Force’ (Yang Naiwen, 2016) Happiness in wanting to say something but not saying it. I want to sayhappiness in a way others cannot. You look up at my blue-green glass,double-paned and glazed, and think we, even when someonejumps, are never on the sane page. Of course, I look likea huge magic wand that grows a sad rose. Yes, the roseis dyed, at ... (read more)