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Contents indexed selectively.
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Gagging on the Stale Smell of Success,
single work
review
— Review of Dying for a Cure : A Memoir of Antidepressants, Misdiagnosis and Madness 2007 single work autobiography ;Guy Rundle discusses why 'we're richer, fatter and unhappier than ever before'. (Editor's headline) -
A Balance between Sense and Sensibility,
single work
criticism
Frank Moorhouse traces Vernon Knowles's life through papers held in the National Archives of Australia and the Australian National Library. Moorhouse charts the course of Knowles's literary career, his funding by the Commonwealth Literary Fund (CLF) and his eventual destitution. Moorhouse, noting the obscurity into which Knowles has fallen, concludes that Knowles's writing does not, in his opinion, warrant re-publication nor do his manuscripts require publication.
Moorhouse, however, commends the CLF as the real 'hero' of the arts funding story. The CLF ' exhibited the very best of attitudes in arts patronage: they affirmed the imagination at its most unconventional; they trusted the judgement of the author as to his needs ... and at the same time tried to truly assess and meet his needs; they were not dissuaded from their decision by the scandal of difference'.
Note: ports (Vernon Knowles) -
Clear View from the Antipodes,
single work
essay
'Pioneering expatriate writer and peerless war correspondent Alan Moorhead helped to bring Australia closer to the centre of global affairs.' (Editor's headline in Australian Literary Review)
- Dream Canto 4 : Cross on the Hilli"Wedged into granite, the cross on Wongborel", single work poetry (p. 24)
- Canto of the Beachi"Four cardinal virtues kiss and tell like the stars they are", single work poetry (p. 24)
- Third Canto of the Invisible Terracesi"Opening the door into Timmy's playground", single work poetry (p. 24)
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Love, Actually,
single work
prose
Marion Halligan asserts that it is 'the ordinary business' of the novelist 'to decide which material will form the basis of the stories she has in mind. Mine are essentially domestic, they are about life and death, love, marriage, birth, temptation, all the everyday things, and the everyday is a rich source of images'.
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Misremembered,
single work
correspondence
Jonathan Dawson contends that the Old and Middle English teacher at the University of Melbourne, remembered by Peter Corris as Patrick McCaughey, was in fact Keith McCartney.