Hidden Author
Boyd and beyond
Coming ABR events include another Fireside Chat – this time with Wayne Macauley, author of The Cook (Text), which has been shortlisted for several prizes, including the Melbourne Prize Best Writing Award. This Fireside Chat will take place at Boyd on Wednesday, 10 October (6 p.m.).
In our first collaboration with Melbourne’s hugely popular City Library, on Flinders Lane, ABR ... (read more)
Patrick White in Adelaide
Dear Editor,
In his article on the theatre of Patrick White (May 2012), David Marr implies quite strongly that White had nothing to do with the theatre between John Tasker’s production of Night on Bald Mountain for the Adelaide University Theatre Guild during the 1964 Adelaide Festival and Neil Armfield’s production of Signal Driver, commissioned by Artistic Directo ... (read more)
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2023
Tracy Ellis ‘Flow States’
Writer and editor Tracy Ellis has won the seventeenth Calibre Essay Prize, worth a total of $7,500. Ellis receives $5,000 f ... (read more)
Calibre Essay Prize
Australia’s leading award for an original essay is intended to foster new insights into culture, society, and the human condition. All non-fiction subjects are eligible for submission. The prize is worth a total of $10,000, and is supported by Peter McLennan and Mary-Ruth Sindrey.
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
ABR’s prestigious international poetry prize is named i ... (read more)
ABR Behrouz Boochani Fellowship
Hessom Razavi as the recipient of the 2020 ABR Behrouz Boochani Fellowship. The Fellowship, worth $10,000, honours the artistry, courage, and moral leadership of Behrouz Boochani, the award-winning author of No Friend But the Mountains (2018). Dr Razavi will make a significant contribution to the magazine in 2020 with a series of three substantial article ... (read more)
Nolan and his comic cobber
Sidney NolanThames & HudsonReviewed by Robert Hughes (Artist and art critic of Nation)
This article was originally published in the November 1961 issue of ABR.
Thames & Hudson’s Nolan book is in danger of becoming a standard work. It should not. It is a blatant promotion job, with few claims to be a serious evaluation of Nolan’s oeu ... (read more)
Calibre – ‘Body and Soul’
Matt Rubinstein is the overall winner of the sixth Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay. His essay, entitled ‘Body and Soul: Copyright Law and Enforcement in the Age of the Electronic Book’, could not be more timely – a probing, meticulously researched survey of inherited notions of intellectual copyright and of new, accelerating challenges to such in the f ... (read more)
Fairfax Central
Dear Editor,
We, the undersigned, wish to draw to national attention the implication of the upcoming Fairfax consolidation of The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, and the Canberra Times book sections. This has the potential to reduce significantly the content of the three separate sections in terms of both the number of books covered and reviewers. The same review would appear ... (read more)
ABR moves to Southbank
While this issue is printing, we’ll be moving to our new office in Boyd, a wonderful extension of the City of Melbourne’s Creative Spaces program. Advances has already written about the many benefits of our new home in the old Boyd High School in Southbank. Now we look forward to settling in, getting to know our artist-neighbours in the other studios, and welcom ... (read more)