Apr 20, 20204 minThe Near and the FarAngela Savage. Mother of Pearl. Melbourne: Transit Lounge, 2019. 320 pp. AU$29.99 ISBN: 9781925760354 Reviewed by Mark Azzopardi, Temple...
Apr 3, 20195 minAxiomaticAxiomatic by Maria Tumarkin (Brow Books, 2018) ISBN: 9781925704051 Review by Jo Langdon In the second essay of Axiomatic, Maria Tumarkin...
Feb 4, 20194 minReview of Appalachian Fall: Poems About Poverty in PowerBy Tara Walker Jennifer Maiden’s 2018 collection is a series of imagined conversations between political figures, poets, religious...
Aug 20, 20184 minAn Anatomy of Neoliberalism from New Zealand By Nicholas Birns New York University Though neoliberalism has been the dominant socioeconomic system in New Zealand since the mid-1980s,...
Jul 9, 20183 minSarah Day’s "Tempo"by Tara Walker In Tempo, Sarah Day’s seventh collection of poetry, the poems are at their best when they capture the detail of an...
May 31, 20184 minJanet Frame's The MijoTreeBy Niki Tulk. Janet Frame's writing is, for many, a series of intimate letters from a place of exile that those of us who live and work...
May 30, 20186 minThe Demons of AthensBy Niki Tulk. Karalis, Vrasidas. The Demons of Athens. Blackheath, NSW: Brandl & Schlesinger, 2014. "Call me what you like," begins the...
May 23, 20184 minBetween a Wolf and a DogBetween a Wolf and a Dog, Georgia Blain, Scribe, 2016 ISBN (13):9781925321111 By Niki Tulk. To read Blain’s final novel is a strange,...
May 23, 20184 min“For those who write a world, never to find a home.” Review of A Door in the Forest, by Yve Louis. By Tara Walker. At the beginning of A Door in the Forest, Yve Louis includes an abbreviated...
May 23, 20185 min Between Two DreamingsThe Simplest Words: A Storyteller’s Journey, by Alex Miller. Allen & Unwin, November 2015 By Niki Tulk. According to the Acknowledgments...
May 23, 20186 minThe Bush: Travels in the Heart of Australia — Don Watson’s Challenge to a National Myth.Watson, Don. "The Bush: Travels in the Heart of Australia." Hamish Hamilton, Melbourne (2014). By Niki Tulk. “The legend insists the...