Truth in the Cage, with its very title, immediately claims that what we are hearing is truth. It is a truth that has been caged, a truth that those outside …
DREAMING INSIDE: Phillip Hall Reviews VOICES FROM JUNEE CORRECTIONAL CENTRE VOLUME 5
Dreaming Inside is a powerful and important project brought to fruition by the hard work and vision of Aunty Barbara Nicholson. Aunty Barb has coordinated a partnership between The Black …
Mark William Jackson reviews Your Looking Eyes by Emilie Collyer
I’m not sure how I feel about the Australian Poetry Café Poet Program. On the one hand any publicity that poets and poetry receives is a good thing; on the …
Untruths Sculpted into Truths (Tristan Foster)
In a recent interview with Amitava Kumar, Michael Ondaatje spoke about the need for multiple voices and various narratives in stories of political or social consequence. “You want the politics …
Robert Goodman reviews A Tiger in Eden
The start of A Tiger in Eden feels like a cross between Trainspotting and The Beach. Nevertheless, it is a promising beginning – Billy, a Northern Irish hardman on the …
The playful provocation of a complex tapestry (Robyn Cadwallader)
The cover of Susan Hawthorne’s Cow, both back and front, is an Indian-style patchwork featuring cows in paintings, photos, carvings, bas relief, even street signs (‘Beware of Cattle on Road’), …
The remembered, the haunted, and the differing (Robyn Cadwallader)
The Abbotsford Mysteries is Patricia Sykes’ third poetry collection. A surprising title, perhaps, for a book about the girls who were cared for at the Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne, home …
HARD NOTES OF WAR: a review of Valence by Susan Hawthorne (Lesley Lebkowicz)
War has always been a subject for poetry – for all forms of literature – in every culture, in every time. It’s been examined, glorified, abhorred. Rarely does a writer …
Neal Stephenson's Reamde reviewed by Robert Goodman
Neal Stephenson, one of the Godfathers of cyberpunk and deliverer of massive, engaging tomes full of historical and philosophical fun returns to the present day, real world (of sorts) with Reamde. The first …
Patrick West's The World Swimmers – Reviewed by Robert Goodman
Short stories are their own particular art form. Like poetry, they are often the expression of an idea or a mood or a character. A distillation of a thought into …
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