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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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Not afraid to speak her mind
Australia’s richest literary prize is up for grabs, with just six novels shortlisted for the fiction section, yet none of the major bookshops in the CBD have them featured.
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Looking for the buzz
Some galleries in the CBD are planning great events, such as viewings at the Sofitel Hotel, to celebrate reopening.
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Will Spring go ahead?
Galleries are getting ready for Spring 1883, usually a joy-filled, anarchic coming together of Melbourne’s art community at the much-loved Windsor Hotel.
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Portraits of a fictional artist
Photographs no longer reflect the world; rather the world reflects them. They deliver a version of reality that at a surface level is consumed as “truth”.
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Corporate novel sold to Hollywood
For those who’ve got addicted to Netflix during the pandemic, the news that a corporate novel set in the CBD is to be made into a TV series should keep them on their couches.
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