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The Poet Eaters

In 2015, Ben Etherington published ‘The Poet Tasters’, a forensic critique of Australian poetry reviewing. Poet and poetry podcaster Alice Allan talks to James Jiang about the enduring impact of Etherington’s essay ten years (and 300 episodes) on.

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Shadow Texts
Joan Fleming reviews two books that embrace the discomfort occasioned by reckonings with colonial monuments. While challenges to commemorative art are often characterised as destructive, Fleming highlights the creative aspect of these reframings.
Joan Fleming
21 May. 2025
Glitching the Binary
Is there no escaping the oppressive apparatus of the capitalist heteropatriarchy? Reviewing Anna Poletti’s hello, world?, Jenny Hedley traces the characters’ hopeful forays into BDSM – their attempt to deprogram themselves and glitch the machine.
Jenny Hedley
16 May. 2025
Futures Not Taken
Science fiction has a history of harnessing pop music and psychedelic elements to envision radical alternatives to the status quo. James Macaronas observes that Jordan Prosser’s Big Time taps into this legacy but falls short of going all the way.
James Macaronas
13 May. 2025
Now What?
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon and the arrival of Indochinese refugees in Australia, Kim Huynh and Vivian Pham exchange emails about the bonds of gratitude, the persistence of joy, and a new Vietnamese Australian aesthetic.
Kim Huynh,
Vivian Pham
22 Apr. 2025

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Callout: 2025 CA-SRB Emerging Critics Fellowship

In partnership with the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund, the Sydney Review of Books  invites applicat...

The 2025 Frank Moorhouse Reading Room Writers-in-Residence

It’s with great pleasure that we announce the recipients of the 2025 Frank Moorhouse Reading Room re...

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