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A shared experience at the Forum
There were many inspiring moments at this year’s RISING festival, one being the sight of dedicated fans sitting outside the Forum, hours before a concert was due to start.
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Wedded to the literary canon
It’s not that often that you get such an ambitious book as The Lessons launched in inner Melbourne.
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The sourer self of Sean O’Beirne
It’s not easy being a critic and Sean O’Beirne struggles modestly with the role in On Helen Garner, the latest in the Writers on Writers series by Black Inc.
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Chilled author transcends gender
Permafrost is ostensibly a short story collection with disparate settings and different narrators but this could be a ruse used skillfully by the author in a first-person point of view.
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Pandemic time under review
An anthology of poems has just been released by Poetry Australia that provides a sophisticated and critical snapshot of a year of pandemic time as experienced by poets.
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I’ll have a “Sauvignon Blank” please
The word from the garret
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