Featured Australian literature essays Anwen Crawfordon Katharine Pollock Katie Dobbson Luke Carman Jeanine Leaneon the whitestream Anwen Crawfordon Katharine Pollock Katie Dobbson Luke Carman Jeanine Leaneon the whitestream Review: Anwen Crawfordon Katharine Pollock Her Fidelity by Katharine Pollock Penguin 304pp Published 16 August 2022 ISBN: 9780143779087 All the Young Grooves The record store clerk, like the pop critic, was once a messenger: have you heard this? Have you heard this? You have to hear this. Feb. 2023 • Australian literature • Fiction Review: Katie Dobbson Luke Carman An Ordinary Ecstasy by Luke Carman Giramondo Publishing 240 pp Published July 2022 ISBN: 9781922725240 Tender Maulings In Luke Carman’s 2013 debut, An Elegant Young Man, the Kerouac-revering narrator from Western Sydney had his wayward literary influences corrected… Feb. 2023 • Australian literature • Australian writers • Western Sydney Essay: Jeanine Leaneon the whitestream Cultural Rigour: First Nations Critical Culture Essays and reviews written by First Nations peoples are the models and the tools and the terms settler readers/scholars need to consider in approaching First Nations works. Feb. 2023 • Australian literature • Australian writers • First Nations literatures All essays tagged: Australian literature Review: Anwen Crawfordon Katharine Pollock Her Fidelity by Katharine Pollock Penguin 304pp Published 16 August 2022 ISBN: 9780143779087 All the Young Grooves The record store clerk, like the pop critic, was once a messenger: have you heard this? Have you heard this? You have to hear this. Feb. 2023 • Australian literature • Fiction Review: Katie Dobbson Luke Carman An Ordinary Ecstasy by Luke Carman Giramondo Publishing 240 pp Published July 2022 ISBN: 9781922725240 Tender Maulings In Luke Carman’s 2013 debut, An Elegant Young Man, the Kerouac-revering narrator from Western Sydney had his wayward literary influences corrected… Feb. 2023 • Australian literature • Australian writers • Western Sydney Essay: Jeanine Leaneon the whitestream Cultural Rigour: First Nations Critical Culture Essays and reviews written by First Nations peoples are the models and the tools and the terms settler readers/scholars need to consider in approaching First Nations works. Feb. 2023 • Australian literature • Australian writers • First Nations literatures Review: James Leyon Vincent and Morton My Father and Other Animals by Sam Vincent Black Inc. 294pp Published August 2022 ISBN: 9781760640439 Growing Up in Country Australia by Rick Morton Black Inc. 302pp Published March 2022 ISBN: 9781760643065 City Mouse, Country Mouse In contrasting ways, Sam Vincent’s memoir My Father and Other Animals and Rick Morton’s anthology Growing Up in Country Australia complicate clichéd notions of rural life. Dec. 2022 • Australian literature 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: 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 Interview: Merve Emre Murnane’s Signposts Gerald Murnane’s meticulously self-curated ‘Chronological Archive’ – as distinct from his ‘Literary Archive’ and ‘Antipodean Archive’, both of which he likewise compiled… Nov. 2022 • Australian literature • Australian writers 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. 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