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''This island, this solitude, this rainy day, this stack of blank paper, I shall transform you, by these sorceries I have learned, into the stuff of friendship.’
'Barbara Blackman has been a muse and an iconic Australian arts identity throughout her long life. This collection of essays, All My Januaries, is both insightful and memorable. Ranging from her Brisbane childhood to her marriage to renowned artist Charles Blackman, her time in London and Paris, and her life beyond, these essays capture her love of language and her acerbic wit.
'Blind since her twenties, Barbara Blackman has been an artist’s model, broadcaster, poet, librettist and essayist. All My Januaries celebrates this remarkable journey as she reflects on food, travel, friendships, family and the many unexpected pleasures of life.' (Publication summary)
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Epigraph: 'An essay is a thing of imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.' –Cynthia Ozick
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- Also large print.
Works about this Work
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Review : All My Januaries' by Barbara Blackman
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 383 2016; (p. 74)
— Review of All My Januaries 2016 selected work autobiography essay -
All My Januaries Review: Barbara Blackman's Recollections and Musings
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 25 June 2016;
— Review of All My Januaries 2016 selected work autobiography essay 'Barabara Blackman, with her first husband Charles, experienced Australian modernism from the inside. In this episodic combination of memoir, essay and meditation she recalls, for example, living in Melbourne in the company of the Boyds and John Percival, amusingly describing the non-appearance of the Christmas turkey usually provided by Sunday Reed, but withheld one year because Arthur Boyd had forgotten Sunday's birthday. ...' -
Another Way of Seeing
Nick Galvin
(interviewer),
2016
single work
interview
— Appears in: The Age , 16-17 April 2016; (p. 20) -
November in Nonfiction
2016
single work
review
essay
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , November 2016;
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All My Januaries Review: Barbara Blackman's Recollections and Musings
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 25 June 2016;
— Review of All My Januaries 2016 selected work autobiography essay 'Barabara Blackman, with her first husband Charles, experienced Australian modernism from the inside. In this episodic combination of memoir, essay and meditation she recalls, for example, living in Melbourne in the company of the Boyds and John Percival, amusingly describing the non-appearance of the Christmas turkey usually provided by Sunday Reed, but withheld one year because Arthur Boyd had forgotten Sunday's birthday. ...' -
Review : All My Januaries' by Barbara Blackman
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 383 2016; (p. 74)
— Review of All My Januaries 2016 selected work autobiography essay -
Another Way of Seeing
Nick Galvin
(interviewer),
2016
single work
interview
— Appears in: The Age , 16-17 April 2016; (p. 20) -
November in Nonfiction
2016
single work
review
essay
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , November 2016;
