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JOLLEY PRIZE
Highlights of the 2016 Fiction issue include the three works shortlisted in the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize (now worth a total of $12,500). We received a record number of entries – nearly 1,400 – from thirty-eight countries. The judges – ABR Deputy Editor Amy Baillieu and authors Maxine Beneba Clarke and David Whish-Wilson – chose a longlist of nineteen storie ... (read more)
Bravo ABC!
In recent years governments of different stamps have visited cuts on the ABC, and the Abbott government accused it of bias and irresponsibility. In recent days we have seen that wilfulness at work. 7.30 Report has exposed appalling sexual abuse of minors by Anglican priests and the protection of pederasts by the Anglican Church of Newcastle. Last night's Four Corners' revelations about ... (read more)
ABR's NSW 'States of Poetry' anthology was launched by state editor Elizabeth Allen and ABR Editor Peter Rose, at Gleebooks in Sydney earlier this year. ABR's esteemed Laureate David Malouf introduced the magazine's first Laureate's Fellow Michael Aiken who read extracts from his Fellowship project, 'Satan Repentant', an epic poem about themes of contrition. Elizabeth Allen, then introduced the si ... (read more)
Mona Brand Award
The State Library of NSW has launched the inaugural Mona Brand Award for Women Stage and Screen Writers, worth a total of $40,000. The award carries a major prize of $30,000 and an additional $10,000 prize for an emerging writer. The biennial award has been made possible by the bequest of Australian playwright and poet Mona Brand (1915–2007). Her socially relevant and controver ... (read more)
In this episode of 'Poem of the Week' Andrew Sant reads 'Tamarillos'. ABR Editor, Peter Rose, introduces Andrew who then reads and discusses his poem.
Tamarillos
Vertigo is nowherewhere they are, and time,too, seems suspended.Ovoid, working on ripenessdozens make no demandson the branches, light,they might be, as blown eggs,easily out of reach amongthe sunlit leaves. Tamarillos,tree to ... (read more)
In this episode of Australian Book Review's States of Poetry podcast, Jen Crawford reads 'reshelve' which features in the 2016 ACT anthology.
reshelve
in decades past a series of dykes was known as the veniceof the floods themselves, with a sweet sap
once the prey has entered the trapthe leaf closes, and within about 30 secondsa senior minister has touchedtwo or three trigger hairs,
... (read more)
In this episode of Australian Book Review's States of Poetry podcast, Jen Crawford reads 'lopping' which features in the 2016 ACT anthology.
lopping
'privately' inside the body but much of this is the extra-somatic (GAWW - not symptomatic but coral. 'the 20th century's premier art mode', though at that point only as an infusio ... (read more)
In this episode of Australian Book Review's States of Poetry podcast, Jen Crawford reads extracts from 'abandoned house music' which features in the 2016 ACT anthology.
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Extracts from 'abandoned house music'
messenger
I mother a scorching fenceI mother a child against a fence
and the cry
here come the shellshocked to arm the dayhere come collectors for the shells
amber ... (read more)
In this episode of Australian Book Review's States of Poetry podcast, Graham Kershaw reads from 'Emails to Manila' which features in the 2016 Western Australian anthology.
from 'Emails to Manila'
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Bottle-green air,red gravel, bark and branch,filigrees of hazel,blanketing roar of ocean,inlet glints of stone.Depths of quiet sounded outin ducks' satellite pings.There's no ribbon to tie ... (read more)