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Geoff Page Review of Toby Davidson, Good for the Soul: John Curtin’s Life with Poetry single work   review  
  • Author:agent Geoff Page http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/page-geoff
Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Geoff Page Review of Toby Davidson, Good for the Soul: John Curtin’s Life with Poetry
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'Good for the Soul: John Curtin’s Life with Poetry is many things at once: an extended act of (great-grand) filial piety, an important supplementary work of biography, as well as a blow-by-blow literary/historical account of a great man’s unusual and consuming interest in poetry and the uses to which to put it. With so many different intentions it would be difficult and probably unfair to judge it by the criteria associated with any one of them.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Journal of Biography and History Writing Slavery into Biography: Australian Legacies of British Slavery no. 6 2022 24621842 2022 periodical issue

    'This special issue of Australian Journal of Biography and History, ‘Writing Slavery into Biography: Australian Legacies of British Slavery’, uses biographical approaches to explore how British slavery shaped the Australian colonies. It is the first stand-alone journal issue to feature an emerging body of historical work tracing the movement of people, investment and ideas from the Caribbean to Australia. Seven refereed articles and a roundtable discussion show how investment, imperial aspiration and migration turned towards Britain's ‘Second Empire’ in the aftermath of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.' (Description Introduction)

         2022     pg. 241-243
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