AustLit

'Iris spoke to Robert Wood about return and renewal, balance and purpose, and how poetry matters across borders.' 

'Kim spoke to Robert Wood about belonging, belief, and reading.'

'Kaya spoke to Robert Wood about language, heritage, and routes.'

'A number of recent political events in Australia will have enduring and wide-ranging impacts on freedom of expression in this country. They include the denial of access to archival papers concerning the Whitlam dismissal, which Professor Jenny Hocking detailed in the April 2020 issue of ABR.' (Introduction)

'Suburbanism is a book of twelve essays on contemporary poetry. Robert Wood looks at New York, consumerism, lifestyle, birds, the Western Pilbara, diaspora, theorising, India, republics, malls, and supermarkets. He offers a fresh take on poetry as it relates to the suburbs, encouraging the reader to reflect on meaning in our own time, and to think about the field of New World Literature.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

 (Introduction)

Bella Li talked to Robert Wood about ekphrasis, assemblage and palimpsests.

'André Dao is a writer of fic­tion and non-fic­tion. He is the co-founder of Behind the Wire, and the deputy editor of New Philoso­pher.

'André talked to Robert about writing, the impossibility of apoliticism, Australia's history of dispossession, and creating Behind the Wire, an oral his­tory project doc­u­ment­ing people’s expe­ri­ence of immi­gra­tion deten­tion.'

Source: Abstract.

'Sumudu Samarawickrama is a poet from Werribee.

'Her work has appeared in Boston Review and Overland. Sumudu is part of Footscray Community Art Centre’s West Writer’s Group, and is currently completing a collection of surrealistic sci-fi.

'Sumudu talked to Robert about T. S. Eliot, FCAC's West Writers Group, and refraction in poetry.'

Source: Abstract.

'Eileen Chong is an acclaimed Sydney poet who was born in Singapore. Her books are Burning Rice, Peony, Painting Red Orchids, Another Language and Rainforest (coming soon). Her latest release is The Uncommon Feast, which focuses on food in poems, recipes and essays. She has been shortlisted for the Anne Elder Award, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, and twice for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards.

'Eileen will be launching The Uncommon Feast at Ashfield Town Hall on 7th February, alongside Asian-Australian writers Lachlan Brown, Wai Chim, Isabelle Li, and Sheila Ngoc Pham, as they read from and discuss their work including themes of culture, identity and food.

'Robert Wood talks to her about reading, identity and inspiration.'

Source: Abstract.

'Claire G. Coleman is a Noongar writer from the south coast of Western Australia who has lived in Melbourne for most of her life. Her debut novel, Terra Nullius, won a Black & Write Indigenous Writing Fellowship before being shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize. It went on to win several other awards. Small Beer Press will publish Terra Nullius in North America on September 11th. We caught up to talk about the book and Claire’s practice as a whole.'

Source: Magazine blurb.

'Anthony Macris is an Australian writer and scholar whose thematic concerns include capital, movement, place, alienation, and relationships. He teaches at the University of Technology Sydney. For the past 20 years, Macris has worked on an ambitious series of novels, the first of which was titled Capital (1997) with the second being Great Western Highway (2012). In 2011, he released a critically lauded memoir When Horse Became Saw. Recently, we found time to consider his practice and to think through his current writing projects in light of his oeuvre as a whole.'

Source: Magazine blurb.

'Tim Winton is one of Australia’s most decorated novelists. Over the course of a long career, he has successfully combined popular appeal with literary accolades. Born, raised, and living in the southwest of Western Australia, he writes about this land and its people as an imagined place and community, often engaging with themes of violence, desire, and belonging. Winton’s many prizes include four Miles Franklin Awards, two Man Booker short-listings and a Centenary Medal. In 2007, he was named a National Living Treasure. For a long time, Winton has participated in community activism. After appearing at the Perth Writers Festival, we caught up to talk about the American release of his latest work, The Shepherd’s Hut.'

Source: Magazine blurb.