Book Reviews

The Near and the Far

Angela Savage. Mother of Pearl. Melbourne: Transit Lounge, 2019. 320 pp. AU$29.99 ISBN: 9781925760354 Reviewed by Mark Azzopardi, Temple...

Axiomatic

Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin (Brow Books, 2018) ISBN: 9781925704051 Review by Jo Langdon In the second essay of Axiomatic, Maria Tumarkin...

Review of Appalachian Fall: Poems About Poverty in Power

By Tara Walker Jennifer Maiden’s 2018 collection is a series of imagined conversations between political figures, poets, religious...

An 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,...

Sarah 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...

Janet Frame's The MijoTree

By 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...

The Demons of Athens

By Niki Tulk. Karalis, Vrasidas. The Demons of Athens. Blackheath, NSW: Brandl & Schlesinger, 2014. "Call me what you like," begins the...

Between a Wolf and a Dog

Between a Wolf and a Dog, Georgia Blain, Scribe, 2016 ISBN (13):9781925321111 By Niki Tulk. To read Blain’s final novel is a strange,...

“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...

Between Two Dreamings

The Simplest Words: A Storyteller’s Journey, by Alex Miller. Allen & Unwin, November 2015 By Niki Tulk. According to the Acknowledgments...

The 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...

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