Richard Flanagan has won the Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction with his book ‘Question 7’. “This book is about my father and my mother,” he says, “their love for each other and the way they used love to find meaning in a world they knew to otherwise be meaningless. I think everyone is confronted at…
Month: November 2024
Australian authors group give every federal politician five books to encourage nuance in Middle East debate
More than 90 Australian authors including writers Tim Winton and Charlotte Wood have paid for every federal senator and MP to receive curated package. Writers including Tim Winton, Charlotte Wood, Michelle de Kretser and JM Coetzee have backed the Summer Reading for MPs campaign which is appealing directly to parliamentarians to deepen their understanding of…
‘Class’: new (free) downloadable anthology of poems (Meuse Press, Aust)
Maybe of interest? New (free) downloadable pdf anthology of poems entitled ‘Class’ (Meuse Press, NSW Australia, edited by Les Wicks) featuring 74 contributors (45 Australiana along with international contributors published in 14 languages) — at https://meusepress.tripod.com/Meuse.htm (scroll down the right hand side of the page and click on Class.pdf) with contributors including Margaret Bradstock, Kit…