Browsing No 249 - March 2003 by Issue Date
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A Slick of Past. "Timedancing" by Jan Owen and "Medium Security" by Louise Wakeling. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)Jan Owen wrote many of the poems in this collection during a residency in Malaysia. There are poems about durians and salaks and mangosteens, fig trees and musk trees, night markets, mosquitoes and fireflies. The other ... -
Posthumous Poet. "Michael Dransfield: A Retrospective" by John Kinsella (ed). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)For those who grew up reading his dreamy, solipsistic sequences, Michael Dransfield met immediate needs. He expressed overtly the counter-cultural attitudes of the times, and portrayed the frustrations and elations of ... -
The Albertine Motif. "The French Tutor" by Judith Armstrong. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)The protagonist of Judith Armstrong's first novel, Emily King, is beautiful, blonde and bilingual, having spent several early years in Paris. As an undergraduate, she suffers disillusionment when her hopes for a burgeoning ... -
After Us the Savage God. "Charles Conder: The Last Bohemian" by Ann Galbally. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)Ann Galbally's splendid new biography of Conder evokes the various artistic and literary milieux between which this sad, beautiful man moved with ease - sleeping for weeks on other people's sofas, surviving on handouts, ... -
A First-Rate Gothic Man. "Creating a Gothic Paradise: Pugin at the Antipodes" by Brian Andrews. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)"Creating a Gothic Paradise" takes the form of a series of essays and exhaustive and extensively illustrated catalogue entries. An introduction to the subject by Pugin scholar Rosemary Hill is followed by several essays ... -
Art in Brief. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)This items provides brief reviews of "Elwyn Lynn: Metaphor + Texture" by Peter Pinson; "Ivor Hele: The Productive Artist" by Jane Hylton; "Wimmera: The Work of Philip Hunter" by Ashley Crawford; "Our Country: Australian ... -
Seeds in the Woods. "Barossa Food" by Angela Heuzenroeder and "The Market: Stories, History and Recipes from the Adelaide Central Market" by Catherine Murphy. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)Catherine Murphy’s "The Market" is not a major work in the way that "Barossa Food" is, but both books share a belief in placing recognition fair and square in specific communities and the lives of 'ordinary' people rather ... -
The Power of Omission. "Seeing the Centre: The Art of Albert Namitjira 1902-1959" by Alison French and "The Town Grew Up Dancing: The Life and Art of Wenten Rubunjta" by Wenten Rubuntja (with Jenny Green). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)French's book is full of conjunctions and anecdotes: about Namitjira's teacher and friend Rex Battarbee, about Hermannsburg, about alcohol, arrest and humiliation, about Albert's singing voice, which was admired by the ... -
University of Hamburger. "Academia Nuts" by Michael Wilding. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)Henry Lancaster lectures in English. Like Michael Wilding himself, Henry is a practitioner as well as a scholar and teacher. Henry considers expanding his repertoire to include a campus novel. Voicing 'the now outlawed ... -
Downmarket Derring-Do. "White Dog" by Peter Temple. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)"White Dog", an extract from which appeared in "Best Australian Stories 2002", is the fourth novel in the Jack Irish series. This time around our hero is called upon to find out whether the capricious, unstable artist ... -
Cogwheel and Blood. "Robert Klippel" by Deborah Edwards. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)Histories of Australian Art have usually been histories only of painting. So Robert Klippel's sculptures and drawings are too little known outside the world of ardent collectors and art museums. Yet they might be aesthetically ... -
Angels of Breath. "Portrait in Skin" by Kevin Brophy" and "The Islanders" by Andrew Sant. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)There is a story that when the saxophonist John Coltrane remarked to his bandleader Miles Davis that he didn't know how to make his solos shorter, the trumpeter replied, 'Take the instrument out of your mouth'. Knowing ... -
Permed Days. "Air Guitar" by Anthony Griffis. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)The recent film "Garage Days" begins with budding rock star Freddy (Kick Gurry) enlivening sex with his girlfriend Tanya (Pia Miranda) with fantasies of singing an AC/DC number to adoring hordes. Anthony Griffis has a ... -
Endangered Species. "Australian Short Fiction: A History" by Bruce Bennett. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)This book has been much anticipated and desired. Now, when asked by anxious students for something to read on the Australian short story, I can finally make a satisfactory response. Of course, I would still want them to ... -
Strange Truths. "Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 16: 1940-1980, Pik-Z" by John Ritchie and Diane Langmore (eds). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)Like sport, the "Australian Dictionary of Biography" is a national institution. Since publication commenced in 1966, the appearance of each new volume is one of the perennial delights of Australian letters. Now, with Volume ... -
Peter Singer and the Bovver Boys. "One World: The Ethics of Globalization" by Peter Singer. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)Singer's lucid ethical enquiry demands that we focus intelligently and independently on selfish states and rogue-like super-states. Maybe we Australians, with our wealth of multicultural experience, have something to say ... -
Whatever Happened to Feminism? Review of "Feminism and the History of Philosophy" by Genevieve Lloyd (ed). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)The essays in this collection represent a range of styles and approaches, variously scholarly, hermetic, reflective, boldly argued or tightly dialectical. All are well-written and intellectually worthwhile. The quality and ... -
Paramount Place. "Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought" by Peter Hay and "Vandiemonian Essays" by Pete Hay. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)Poet, scholar, teacher, writer and essayist are just a few terms that could be used to describe Peter Hay (or 'Pete Hay' as he presents himself on the second of these book covers). Hay, as Reader in Geography and Environmental ... -
Heart of Darkness. "Australian Art in the National Gallery of Australia" by Anne Gray (ed). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)This anthology has been astutely edited for a general readership, with the writing pared back and devoid of artspeak. Texts range from 250 to 750 words, and are as varied as the works themselves. The complexity of original ...