On my bookshelves, after my chronologically ordered issues of Overland, Meanjin, Going Down Swinging etc., after my poetry collections, alphabetised by poet’s surname, sit the anthologies in no particular order …
A.S. Byatt's Ragnarok reviewed by Robert Goodman
AS Byatt, the grand lady of English letters, is best known for her lengthy tomes exploring the minutiae of English life. As she admits in an illuminating afterword to Raganrok, …
The leading role of simple things (Tristan Foster)
Australia is a big country but a small place, so when Nam Le’s 2008 short story collection The Boat won nearly every major literary prize in the land people were …
Tim Richards' Thought Crimes reviewed by Ben Carmichael
There are those who maintain that the principal aesthetic/moral aim of literature is ‘to hold a mirror up to reality.’ Tim Richards’ Thought Crimes certainly does this, because a mirror …
Jessica Au's Cargo reviewed by Bel Woods
If Puberty Blues was one extreme of teenage beach culture, Cargo is another. It’s the loners; the kids who mature quietly at the fringes, drift, dip their toes into the social norms associated with …
03 by Jean-Christophe Valtat (Ben Carmichael)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010 Translated from the French by Mitzi Angel The unnamed narrator of Jean-Christophe Valtat’s 03 is a seething mind. His thoughts, which comprise the novella’s uninterrupted, …
The Circumstances of a Book: a review by Geoff Page
Poems from the City: A London Interlude. By Ed Byrne. Melbourne University Publishing. pp 160. $24.99 * It’s rare that the circumstances of a book’s publication are more interesting than …
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