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Book of Colours
(Robyn Cadwallader)

The cross had just enough lacework and carving to give space for his hands and feet, and despite his aching clumsiness he climbed up as far as he could for …

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An Absence of Noise: Stephanie Buckle’s Habits of Silence and Félix Calvino’s So Much Smoke

Review by Kathryn Hummel Edited by Robyn Cadwallader A land as vast as Australia is well-suited to capturing through snapshots, for viewing separately or stitched together in a panorama. In many …

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Félix CalvinoKathryn HummelRobyn CadwalladerStephanie Buckle

The Anchoress (Robyn Cadwallader)

I had always wanted to be a jongleur, to leap from the shoulders of another, to fly and tumble, to dare myself in thin air with nothing but my arms …

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A deeply felt love of land and the possible activist: John Kinsella’s The Vision of Error

Review by Robyn Cadwallader John Kinsella’s latest collection of poetry, The Vision of Error: A Sextet of Activist Poems is, as Kinsella says in a speech on video link to …

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Gathering Experience, Thought, Love and Craft: Janet Galbraith’s re-membering

Review by Robyn Cadwallader On the second page of Janet Galbraith’s first poetry collection, ­re-membering, there is a definition, a kind of sub-title: ‘to both remember what has been and …

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Rich Evocations of Harsh Realities: Paul Hetherington’s Six Different Windows (Robyn Cadwallader)

Review by Robyn Cadwallader Paul Hetherington’s eighth and latest collection of poetry, Six Different Windows, offers the reader the assurance of being in the hands of a thoughtful, intelligent poet. …

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Wit and Challenge and Play: Suniti Namjoshi’s The Fabulous Feminist

Review by Robyn Cadwallader A blue donkey, a lesbian cow, a saint who meets Grendel and his mother, a one-eyed monkey, an oyster child — they all tell their arresting …

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Robyn CadwalladerSuniti NamjoshiThe Fabulous Feminist - A Suniti Namjoshi Reader

Rare and endangered (Robyn Cadwallader)

Her parents had named her Dale. Dale Bailey Collins, but at home they called her Bailey, each claiming it was the other one that had wanted Dale. And so, Bailey …

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Refusing Comfortable Resolutions: Sefi Atta's A Bit of Difference

Review by Robyn Cadwallader Sefi Atta’s third novel, A Bit of Difference, begins with a deceptively simple scene: a woman arrives at Atlanta airport, Georgia, USA, and notices a huge …

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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’), …

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