Born: Established: 1956 ;
AustLit
Details of Works Taught
Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
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26 Views of the Starburst World : William Dawes at Sydney Cove 1788-91
Twenty Six Views of the Starburst World
Ross Gibson
,
Crawley
:
UWA Publishing
,
2012
Z1901719
2012
single work
biography
(taught in 4 units)
'When Lieutenant William Dawes came to Botany Bay with the First Fleet Marines in January 1788 he delved into the world of a small group of Indigenous people from around Sydney Harbour. Dawes called his collaborators 'the Eora'. They told him it was their word for 'people', and it might have been the first thing they watched him write down. 'Chasing the fascinations that thrilled the Lieutenant during his disorienting time in Eora country, 26 Views of the Starburst World captures the wonder that shone for Dawes and rearranged him at Sydney Cove, amplified and illuminated, engulfed by language, stars and landscape.' (Publisher's website)
|
Histories, Fictions | Deakin University | 2015 (Semester 2) |
y
26 Views of the Starburst World : William Dawes at Sydney Cove 1788-91
Twenty Six Views of the Starburst World
Ross Gibson
,
Crawley
:
UWA Publishing
,
2012
Z1901719
2012
single work
biography
(taught in 4 units)
'When Lieutenant William Dawes came to Botany Bay with the First Fleet Marines in January 1788 he delved into the world of a small group of Indigenous people from around Sydney Harbour. Dawes called his collaborators 'the Eora'. They told him it was their word for 'people', and it might have been the first thing they watched him write down. 'Chasing the fascinations that thrilled the Lieutenant during his disorienting time in Eora country, 26 Views of the Starburst World captures the wonder that shone for Dawes and rearranged him at Sydney Cove, amplified and illuminated, engulfed by language, stars and landscape.' (Publisher's website)
|
Major Movements In Contemporary Prose | University of Sydney | 2014 (Semester 1) |
y
26 Views of the Starburst World : William Dawes at Sydney Cove 1788-91
Twenty Six Views of the Starburst World
Ross Gibson
,
Crawley
:
UWA Publishing
,
2012
Z1901719
2012
single work
biography
(taught in 4 units)
'When Lieutenant William Dawes came to Botany Bay with the First Fleet Marines in January 1788 he delved into the world of a small group of Indigenous people from around Sydney Harbour. Dawes called his collaborators 'the Eora'. They told him it was their word for 'people', and it might have been the first thing they watched him write down. 'Chasing the fascinations that thrilled the Lieutenant during his disorienting time in Eora country, 26 Views of the Starburst World captures the wonder that shone for Dawes and rearranged him at Sydney Cove, amplified and illuminated, engulfed by language, stars and landscape.' (Publisher's website)
|
Major Movements in Contemporary Prose | University of Sydney | 2014 (Semester 1) |
y
26 Views of the Starburst World : William Dawes at Sydney Cove 1788-91
Twenty Six Views of the Starburst World
Ross Gibson
,
Crawley
:
UWA Publishing
,
2012
Z1901719
2012
single work
biography
(taught in 4 units)
'When Lieutenant William Dawes came to Botany Bay with the First Fleet Marines in January 1788 he delved into the world of a small group of Indigenous people from around Sydney Harbour. Dawes called his collaborators 'the Eora'. They told him it was their word for 'people', and it might have been the first thing they watched him write down. 'Chasing the fascinations that thrilled the Lieutenant during his disorienting time in Eora country, 26 Views of the Starburst World captures the wonder that shone for Dawes and rearranged him at Sydney Cove, amplified and illuminated, engulfed by language, stars and landscape.' (Publisher's website)
|
Australia and Home | University of Western Australia | 2015 (Semester 1) |
Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
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Seven Versions of an Australian Badland
Ross Gibson
,
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
2002
Z1005706
2002
single work
prose
travel
mystery
(taught in 8 units)
'Part road movie, part memoir, part murder mystery, Seven Versions of an Australian Badland embarks on an enthralling journey through time, into the realms of myth and magic, narcissism and genocide.' (Back cover) |
Texts and Contexts: Contemporary Australian Writing | Australian National University | 2009 |
y
Seven Versions of an Australian Badland
Ross Gibson
,
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
2002
Z1005706
2002
single work
prose
travel
mystery
(taught in 8 units)
'Part road movie, part memoir, part murder mystery, Seven Versions of an Australian Badland embarks on an enthralling journey through time, into the realms of myth and magic, narcissism and genocide.' (Back cover) |
Contemporary Australian Writing | Australian National University | 2009 (Semester 1) |
y
Seven Versions of an Australian Badland
Ross Gibson
,
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
2002
Z1005706
2002
single work
prose
travel
mystery
(taught in 8 units)
'Part road movie, part memoir, part murder mystery, Seven Versions of an Australian Badland embarks on an enthralling journey through time, into the realms of myth and magic, narcissism and genocide.' (Back cover) |
Travelling Australia: A Cultural Guide | Flinders University | 2010 (Semester 2) |
y
Seven Versions of an Australian Badland
Ross Gibson
,
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
2002
Z1005706
2002
single work
prose
travel
mystery
(taught in 8 units)
'Part road movie, part memoir, part murder mystery, Seven Versions of an Australian Badland embarks on an enthralling journey through time, into the realms of myth and magic, narcissism and genocide.' (Back cover) |
Australian Gothic | University of Sydney | 2009 (Semester 2) |
y
Seven Versions of an Australian Badland
Ross Gibson
,
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
2002
Z1005706
2002
single work
prose
travel
mystery
(taught in 8 units)
'Part road movie, part memoir, part murder mystery, Seven Versions of an Australian Badland embarks on an enthralling journey through time, into the realms of myth and magic, narcissism and genocide.' (Back cover) |
Australian Gothic | University of Sydney | 2011 (Semester 2) |
y
Seven Versions of an Australian Badland
Ross Gibson
,
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
2002
Z1005706
2002
single work
prose
travel
mystery
(taught in 8 units)
'Part road movie, part memoir, part murder mystery, Seven Versions of an Australian Badland embarks on an enthralling journey through time, into the realms of myth and magic, narcissism and genocide.' (Back cover) |
Australian Texts And Traditions | University of Tasmania | 2010 (Semester 2) |
y
Seven Versions of an Australian Badland
Ross Gibson
,
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
2002
Z1005706
2002
single work
prose
travel
mystery
(taught in 8 units)
'Part road movie, part memoir, part murder mystery, Seven Versions of an Australian Badland embarks on an enthralling journey through time, into the realms of myth and magic, narcissism and genocide.' (Back cover) |
Australian Literature | University of Tasmania | 2014 (Semester 2) |
y
Seven Versions of an Australian Badland
Ross Gibson
,
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
2002
Z1005706
2002
single work
prose
travel
mystery
(taught in 8 units)
'Part road movie, part memoir, part murder mystery, Seven Versions of an Australian Badland embarks on an enthralling journey through time, into the realms of myth and magic, narcissism and genocide.' (Back cover) |
Australian Literature | University of Tasmania | 2016 (Semester 2) |
Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
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The Summer Exercises
Ross Gibson
,
Crawley
:
UWA Publishing
,
2009
Z1553941
2009
single work
novel
(taught in 3 units)
'A civilian chaplain records whispered confessions and low urgings into a notebook during his summer tenure at Central Street Police Station. His Summer Exercises are habitual - five times a day - his terseness can generate feelings so sharp that sometimes a great notion gets pared clean with a meagre swatch of syllables. 'Constructing this notebook of a sharp observer, author Ross Gibson builds a world: Sydney in 1946 - sordid and bruised after decades of depredations. A war will take your innards out. In The Summer Exercises, Gibson uses approximately 175 carefully selected black and white photographs from the collection of the Justice & Police Museum taken during the years immediately after World War II. 'These photographs, generated by NSW Police in the course of their investigations between 1945-1960, form a visual reference for richly imagined and experimental storytelling to take place. Anchored in the realities of 1940s Sydney police investigative procedure, the work is an artistic re-invention of history as it happened.' (Publisher's blurb) |
Literary Studies: Reading the City | University of Canberra | 2015 (Semester 1) |
y
The Summer Exercises
Ross Gibson
,
Crawley
:
UWA Publishing
,
2009
Z1553941
2009
single work
novel
(taught in 3 units)
'A civilian chaplain records whispered confessions and low urgings into a notebook during his summer tenure at Central Street Police Station. His Summer Exercises are habitual - five times a day - his terseness can generate feelings so sharp that sometimes a great notion gets pared clean with a meagre swatch of syllables. 'Constructing this notebook of a sharp observer, author Ross Gibson builds a world: Sydney in 1946 - sordid and bruised after decades of depredations. A war will take your innards out. In The Summer Exercises, Gibson uses approximately 175 carefully selected black and white photographs from the collection of the Justice & Police Museum taken during the years immediately after World War II. 'These photographs, generated by NSW Police in the course of their investigations between 1945-1960, form a visual reference for richly imagined and experimental storytelling to take place. Anchored in the realities of 1940s Sydney police investigative procedure, the work is an artistic re-invention of history as it happened.' (Publisher's blurb) |
Australian Fiction | University of Technology, Sydney | 2010 (Semester 2) |
y
The Summer Exercises
Ross Gibson
,
Crawley
:
UWA Publishing
,
2009
Z1553941
2009
single work
novel
(taught in 3 units)
'A civilian chaplain records whispered confessions and low urgings into a notebook during his summer tenure at Central Street Police Station. His Summer Exercises are habitual - five times a day - his terseness can generate feelings so sharp that sometimes a great notion gets pared clean with a meagre swatch of syllables. 'Constructing this notebook of a sharp observer, author Ross Gibson builds a world: Sydney in 1946 - sordid and bruised after decades of depredations. A war will take your innards out. In The Summer Exercises, Gibson uses approximately 175 carefully selected black and white photographs from the collection of the Justice & Police Museum taken during the years immediately after World War II. 'These photographs, generated by NSW Police in the course of their investigations between 1945-1960, form a visual reference for richly imagined and experimental storytelling to take place. Anchored in the realities of 1940s Sydney police investigative procedure, the work is an artistic re-invention of history as it happened.' (Publisher's blurb) |
Australian Fiction | University of Technology, Sydney | 2011 (Semester 2) |