Jason Cotter and Michael Williams (eds)
2009
9781740668217
With Readings and Writings: Forty Years in Books, there doesn’t appear to have been an overriding theme or subject limitation placed on the contributors. Instead, the writers involved, who have all had supportive associations with Readings Books & Music (Melbourne) over the years, are given free reign. The result is [...]
Tag Archives: Peter Goldsworthy
Peter Goldsworthy’s Everything I Knew
July 14, 2009 – 8:06 am
Penguin Aus
ISBN 9780143009634 (paperback – out August 2009)
It’s 1964 in small-town South Australia and Robert Burns (like the poet) is on the cusp of adolescence. ‘Happiness is a default state’, he narrates, looking back. Reading it, no matter when or where you grew up, one can relate to that simplicity, the time before ‘adult’ aspects of [...]
Round ‘em Up
February 7, 2009 – 8:22 pm
A wealth of literary-minded titbits (yes, that is the proper Australian spelling) to share with you this week:
* Only one week until Writers at the Convent. I don’t have a lot of dough at the moment (read: broke) but I can’t miss the Australian Fiction session at 8pm on the Saturday. It’ll be my Valentines [...]
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Melbourne Writers Festival 2009 diary part eight: why Australian literature?
Instead of doing this session by session (as the last two days are a blur) I’ll just write it as it comes out.
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First of all, Why Australian Literature? looked at our national literature and it’s current ‘crisis’, that of globalisation and the possible ’swamping’ of other voices and literatures. The panel featured Peter Goldsworthy, Thomas [...]