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Issue Details: First known date: 2015... no. 373 August 2015 of Australian Book Review est. 1961 Australian Book Review
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Contents

* Contents derived from the 2015 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Counting the Bees : Death and Regret in Clive James's New Poetry, Peter Goldsworthy , single work review
— Review of Sentenced to Life Clive James , 2015 selected work poetry ;
'Clive James’s series of memoirs began in 1980 with the Unreliable one. Thirty-five years and four more very funny books later, the Five Lives of Clive have been rounded with a sixth: a slim volume of poems. It is probably also the most reliable, as if, paradoxically, James took more poetic licence when working in prose. The prevailing tone is a long way from the hilarious self-deprecation of the memoirs. Of course, the knowledge that one is to die tomorrow – or at best next year – concentrates the mind. That impending death, and the guilts and regrets that accompany it, belong to the category of what James calls ‘deeper considerations’ in his recent (and indispensable) collection of essays, Poetry Notebook (2014).' (9)
(p. 9-10)
Barbarian Studiesi"Weather in which I might be", Aidan Coleman , single work poetry (p. 12)
Speaking Out, Rachel Buchanan , single work review
— Review of Silent Shock : The Men Behind the Thalidomide Scandal and an Australian Family’s Long Road to Justice Michael Magazanik , 2015 single work autobiography ;
(p. 18)
Letter from Athens, Scott McCulloch , single work prose (p. 20-23)
No Mirage, Brian Matthews , single work review
— Review of Archipelago of Souls Gregory Day , 2015 single work novel ;
(p. 25)
Whitewash, Francesca Sasnaitis , single work review
— Review of Crow's Breath John Kinsella , 2015 selected work short story ;
(p. 26)
The Scientist of His Own Experience : A Profile of Gerald Murnane', Shannon Burns , single work biography
'he town of Goroke (population six hundred) stands almost exactly between Melbourne and Adelaide, in the Wimmera region of Victoria. It is, in many ways, a typical small country town. If you drive there in the morning during late spring or early summer, you’ll need to slow the car to avoid kangaroos on the road. Magpies are everywhere. Horses and other livestock mope and sway in front and backyard paddocks just off the main street. Everyone knows everyone, and newcomers to the town, often short of money and used to hardship, either find their niche or move on.' (Introduction 28)
(p. 28-42)
Note: still images
Critic of the Month : Alison Croggon, single work interview (p. 46)
A Boxi"All those years", Jodie Hollander , single work poetry (p. 50)
Review : Women He's Undressed, Eloise Ross , single work review
— Review of Women He's Undressed Katherine Thomson , 2015 single work film/TV biography ;
(p. 53)
Thea Astley's It's Raining in Mango, Susan Sheridan , single work review
— Review of It's Raining in Mango : Pictures from the Family Album Thea Astley , 1987 selected work short story ;

'It’s Raining in Mango: Pictures from the Family Album was first published in 1987, on the eve of the bicentenary of white settlement in Australia, when many versions of the story of Australia were advanced and debated. Thea Astley’s book presents a family, the Laffeys, as a microcosm of the national story. It is a novel made up of stories told by Connie, an ageing woman, as she mulls over ‘pictures from the family album’, covering a period from the 1860s to the 1980s.' (Introduction)

(p. 54-57)
Note:

As 'Reading Australia: "It's Raining in Mango" by Thea Astley'.

Shimmering Questions, Debra Adelaide , single work review
— Review of Peripheral Vision Paddy O'Reilly , 2015 selected work short story ;
(p. 58)
More Vogel Verve, Laurie Steed , single work review
— Review of When There's Nowhere Else to Run Murray Middleton , 2015 selected work short story ;
(p. 59)
Review : Lion Attack!, Joseph Rubbo , single work review
— Review of Lion Attack! Oliver Mol , 2015 single work prose ;
(p. 61)
The Constant Whisper of Type, Peter Kenneally , single work review
— Review of Crankhandle : Notebooks November 2010-June 2012 Alan Loney , 2015 selected work poetry ; Stone Grown Cold Ross Gibson , Pamela Brown , 2015 selected work poetry ; Aurelia John Hawke , 2015 selected work poetry ; Dirty Words Natalie Harkin , 2015 selected work poetry ;
(p. 61-62)
Open Page with Sofie Laguna, single work interview (p. 64)

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