Robert Adamson was born in Sydney in 1943 and grew up in Neutral Bay and on the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales. From 1970 to 1985 he edited Australia’s New Poetry magazine, and in 1988, with Juno Gemes, he established Paper Bark Press, one of …
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OUT OF PRINT First full collection of the work of one of Australia's most prominent 20th century …
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Rosemary Dobson was born in 1920, her first book, In a Convex Mirror, was published in 1944. Forty years and nine books later, she received the 1984 Patrick White Award for her many achievements as writer, editor, reviewer and translator. She was …
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Apart from the devotional poetry of The Rue Tree, the poems are dominated by new preoccupations that…
Jennifer Strauss is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Monash University and is a respected critic, literary historian and poet…
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These poems are traces and markings through continuous topographies – streets, shores, bodies. …
Jill Jones is a Sydney poet and writer. Her work has been published extensively in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the USA and UK. Her first book, The Mask and the Jagged Star, won the Mary Gilmore Award in 1993. The Book of Possibilities, 1997, was …
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The charismatic god-king Sukarno has brought Indonesia to the edge of chaos – to an abortive …
Christopher Koch was born and educated in Tasmania. Most of his life was spent in Sydney, where he worked for some years as a radio producer in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He was a full-time writer from 1972, winning international …
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One spring day in late 1992, when William was halfway between his eighth birthday and his ninth, he …
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