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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... no. 418 January / February 2020 of Australian Book Review est. 1961 Australian Book Review
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2020 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
That Wadjela Tonguei"The urge to tell my truth is resting upon me like a fever; like a weight; like a hot sodden blanket.", Claire G. Coleman , single work poetry (p. 56)
South Coast Sonnetsi"We drove across the estuary,", Ross Gillett , single work poetry (p. 57)
After the Mardi Gras, Sebastian Sharp , single work review
— Review of Unrequited Love : Diary of an Accidental Activist Dennis Altman , 2019 single work autobiography ;

'The fortieth anniversary of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras might have been an occasion for unbridled elation. Held in March of 2018, the celebration came soon after the bitterly fought battle to legalise same-sex marriage in Australia. Dennis Altman, a pre-eminent figure in Gay Liberation, paints a different picture of the Mardi Gras. His new book, Unrequited Love: Diary of an accidental activist, conveys a sense of unease despite the frolicsome charms of such festivities.' (Introduction)

 (p. 60)
From Fitzroy to Heide, James Jiang , single work review
— Review of Heide TT. O , 2019 selected work poetry ;
'Heide is the final instalment of an epic trilogy that began with 24 Hours (1996) and was followed by Fitzroy: A biography (2015). It also marks a departure for Π.O. In this third volume (the only one in the trilogy not to be self-published), the unofficial poet laureate of Fitzroy turns his attention away from the migrant and working-class characters of his beloved suburb toward the names that line the bookshelves and gallery walls of the nation’s most august institutions. In more than 500 pages of verse, Heide plots the history, and colonial prehistory, of the artistic milieu that gathered at Sunday and John Reed’s property in Heidelberg. The book’s concern with institutional memory aligns it with Alexander Sokurov’s Russian Ark (2002), a film famous for its unblinking gaze down the corridors of the Winter Palace in the Hermitage Museum. Both works share an architecture of historical imagination in which the museum becomes a memory palace where the artist’s acts of listening and recording conserve without being conservative.'

(Introduction)

 (p. 61)
Open Page with Ceridwen Dovey, single work interview (p. 64)
[Review] Packer & Sons, Ian Dickson , single work review
— Review of Packer & Sons Tommy Murphy , 2019 single work drama ;

'You would have to be living under a rock the size of Uluru not to be aware of the reassessment of the masculine sense of dominance and entitlement that is sweeping the Western world at the moment. From an American president who has openly boasted of assaulting women to a member of the royal family who, in an interview about his relationship with a notorious paedophile, blithely ignores the damage that this man and his cohorts inflicted on young women, we have seen a stunning lack of empathy towards the less powerful and well connected. In the business world, some consider this to be a requisite for success. It has become something of a truism to claim, as does Jon Ronson in his controversial book The Psychopath Test, that a high percentage of CEOs have psychopathic tendencies.'(Introduction)

 (p. 67)
Occupation Housewifei"Advertisements asked: 'Which twin has the Toni?'", Clive James , single work poetry (p. 72)
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