{"id":810,"date":"2022-10-05T22:51:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T22:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/?p=810"},"modified":"2022-10-07T10:48:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T10:48:18","slug":"small-press-network-2022-book-of-the-year-award-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/2022\/10\/05\/small-press-network-2022-book-of-the-year-award-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Press Network: 2022 Book of the Year Award\u2014Shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">This year&#8217;s shortlisted titles for Small Press Network&#8217;s Book of the Year Award have been announced. They are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smallpressnetwork.us4.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=18e0b47b2ad99546b44861ee4&amp;id=9e7dcefa43&amp;e=57706b14e3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>No Document<\/em>&nbsp;by Anwen Crawford<\/a>&nbsp;(Giramondo)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smallpressnetwork.us4.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=18e0b47b2ad99546b44861ee4&amp;id=7a2a462583&amp;e=57706b14e3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Friends and Dark Shapes<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;by Kavita Bedford (Text)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smallpressnetwork.us4.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=18e0b47b2ad99546b44861ee4&amp;id=da677d6f9f&amp;e=57706b14e3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Hometown Haunts<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;edited by Poppy Nwosu (Wakefield Press)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smallpressnetwork.us4.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=18e0b47b2ad99546b44861ee4&amp;id=429cda4697&amp;e=57706b14e3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Permafrost<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;by SJ Norman (UQP)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smallpressnetwork.us4.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=18e0b47b2ad99546b44861ee4&amp;id=04e1739bf2&amp;e=57706b14e3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Gravidity and Parity<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;by Eleanor Jackson (Vagabond)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smallpressnetwork.us4.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=18e0b47b2ad99546b44861ee4&amp;id=5a4b863c0e&amp;e=57706b14e3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Theory of Colours<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;by Bella Li (Vagabond)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smallpressnetwork.us4.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=18e0b47b2ad99546b44861ee4&amp;id=f20f313ac0&amp;e=57706b14e3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Sexy Tales of Paleontology<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;by Patrick Lenton (Subbed In)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">The BOTY 2022 winner will be presented in partnership with the Wheeler Centre as part of its Next Big Thing series, on 25 November 2022 at 6:30 pm. You can find the event details <a href=\"https:\/\/smallpressnetwork.us4.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=18e0b47b2ad99546b44861ee4&amp;id=d98bae90da&amp;e=57706b14e3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">I mention this in part cos it reminds me of entering <a href=\"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/bookshop.html#!\/Pete-Hay-Forgotten-Corners\/p\/154332273\/category=0\">Pete&#8217;s book<\/a> in the award a couple of years ago, (and it won). I was asked to write something for use as part of the award presentation. I suggested yes I could (see below) but that I&#8217;d feel less comfortable reading it live. That&#8217;s okay, we can take care of that, I was told. (In the event, what I wrote was way too long and just a short segment was used)&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><em><span style=\"color: #333333;\">As <\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #333333;\">to<\/span><\/em> <em><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Pete\u2026.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">One evening some years ago I was driving a taxi late at night, parked down in the vicinity of Hobart\u2019s waterfront. Two women \u2013 tourists from New Zealand, I was to learn \u2014 climbed into the cab. They\u2019d attended a literary event an hour or two earlier. They were cheerful and relaxed and happily exchanged literary perceptions of the evening in the comfort of the back seat of the vehicle. Generous and inclusive, they invited me to share their conversation, to which I responded by noting that for many Tasmanian writers \u2014particularly those who wrote of the environment \u2014 a closer affinity was felt with the landscape of New Zealand than with the \u2018\u2026 sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains\u2019 of Dorothea Mackellar\u2019s Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">The pair asked if I could suggest the name of a praiseworthy Tasmanian writer, someone who\u2019d perhaps slipped under their radar back home in New Zealand. I mentioned Pete, describing him as a poet and essayist and one of our country\u2019s most respected environmentalists. Of the many reasons I might have offered in an appreciation of Pete\u2019s work, I settled for just one \u2014 the fare was only running Salamanca to New Town, after all \u2014 and that was \u2018generosity\u2019. And I tried in my own words to recall for them a conversation years past when Pete had suggested <span style=\"color: #151414;\"><i>&#8216;I don&#8217;t write because I think I&#8217;ve profound truths that other people would benefit from having exposure to. I don&#8217;t write to provide anyone with answers, I write to provide people with dilemmas. My essays &#8211; even my poetry lately &#8211; are written to set up tensions that are ultimately not resolved. I explore the tensions, but I don&#8217;t conclude.&#8217;<\/i><\/span><i> <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">For their benefit, I\u2019d have also mentioned \u2014 if the words had come to mind \u2014 Richard Flanagan\u2019s support for Pete\u2019s previous essay collection, <i>Vandiemonian Essays<\/i>, wherein Richard wrote, \u2018All (these essays) are written with wit and without fear, with an erudition lightly worn, and with a pen dipped in a large love of this world. All can be read with both joy and curiosity\u2026 \u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It\u2019s Richard\u2019s allusion to \u2018joy and curiosity\u2019, coincidentally, that I\u2019d recommend as an approach to Pete\u2019s current essay collection, \u2018Forgotten corners\u2019 \u2014 that, along with an openness to being challenged, informed and entertained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As the cab pulled to a stop, one of the women turned to me, remarking \u2018I know it\u2019s eleven-thirty in the evening, but I\u2019m about to jump on the internet and learn a little more about Pete Hay \u2014 right now!\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">The other leaned in towards me. &#8216;And I guarantee it, she will!&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s shortlisted titles for Small Press Network&#8217;s Book of the Year Award have been announced. 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