Reviews Review: Catriona Menzies-Pikeon Gina Rushton The Most Important Job in the World by Gina Rushton Pan Macmillan 304pp Published 29 March 2022 ISBN: 9781760984069 Only Feelings Why has it taken me so long to write this review of The Most Important Job in the World? Whenever I… Dec. 2022 • Australian literature • Australian writers • Non-fiction Juncture Review: Patrick Allingtonon Grace Chan and Joan Fleming Every Version of You by Grace Chan Affirm Press 288pp Published July 2022 ISBN: 9781922806017 Song of Less by Joan Fleming Cordite Books 87pp Published January 2022 ISBN: 9780648917632 All Futures Are Possible These two speculative works offer visions of the future in which the earth is devastated. Each involves humans living disrupted, transformed lives – defying or redefining extinction, carrying on, muddling through. Dec. 2022 • Australian literature • Poetry • Speculative fiction • Juncture Review: Dan Dixonon the short story What Fear Was by Ben Walter Puncher and Wattmann 176pp Published November 2021 ISBN: 9781922571205 If You're Happy by Fiona Robertson UQP 288pp Published February 2022 ISBN: 9780702263460 The Teeth of a Slow Machine by Andrew Roff Wakefield Press 216pp Published March 2022 ISBN: 9781743058916 Have Fun I am looking for something to say about the short story as a category, something to distinguish it, and my mind alights on the word ‘fun’. Dec. 2022 • Australian literature • Fiction Review: Emily Callacion Angela Garbes Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes Harper Wave Published 10 May 2022 256pp ISBN: 9780062937360 Can Motherhood Bend Toward Justice? Is Garbes’s unifying vision enough to confront what we are up against? Or is radical motherhood only the first stop on the road to mass politics for collective justice? Dec. 2022 • Health and bodies • Kinship and care • Non-fiction Review: Gurmeet Kauron Sophie Cunningham This Devastating Fever by Sophie Cunningham Ultimo Press pp 320 Published September 2022 ISBN: 9781761150937 Sophie Cunningham’s Orbits In Sophie Cunningham’s This Devastating Fever, tiny comets blaze across the pages. Connecting disparate histories, their orbits disrupt the order of… Nov. 2022 • Australian writers • Fiction Review: Imogen Deweyon Simon Tedeschi Fugitive by Simon Tedeschi Upswell Publishing 120pp Published May 2022 ISBN: 9780645247961 ‘Tonality is a ghost’ What Fugitive does is to enact the sensation that emerges when you play or listen to music: a tactile excitement, a kinaesthetic sense of the sacred Nov. 2022 • Australian literature • Non-fiction Review: Helen Koukoutsison Peter Skrzynecki Travelling Among the Stars by Peter Skrzynecki Vagabond Press 208pp Published May 2022 ISBN: 9781925735352 From the Porch Skrzynecki writes as a storyteller who recalls nature, family, and friends, as well as time and place, with narratological detail. Nov. 2022 • Australian literature • Migration • Poetry Review: Jeremy GeorgeWilliam Holbrookon Guy Rundle Between the Last Oasis and the next Mirage by Guy Rundle Melbourne University Press 360pp November 2021 ISBN: 9780522877731 Signs Lit in the Night If Australia were invaded, should it be defended? This is the question at the heart of a short essay by Guy Rundle published… Nov. 2022 • Non-fiction • Politics Juncture Review: Michael Farrellon David Stavanger Case Notes by David Stavanger UWAP 120 pp Published February 2020 ISBN: 9781760801199 Inside Pathetic Language By beginning Case Notes with poems about dogs, David Stavanger establishes from the beginning that his book is not purely the interrogation of the archival self, of self-research, that we might imagine from its title. Nov. 2022 • Australian literature • Poetry • Juncture Review: Ramona Kennedyon Chris Flynn Here be Leviathans by Chris Flynn UQP 240pp Published August 2022 ISBN: 9780702262777 What Was It Thinking? Reading expands the mind, and when you’ve got weak personal boundaries it can be as wild and dangerous an experience as living. Nov. 2022 • Australian literature • Fiction Previous 1 2 3 … 80 Next