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The Beach as (Hu)man Limit in Gold Coast Narrative Fiction
2018
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criticism
— Appears in: Queensland Review , June vol. 25 no. 1 2018; (p. 149-162)'Gold Coast beaches oscillate in the cultural imagination between everyday reality and a tourist's paradise of ‘sun, surf and sex’ (Winchester and Everett 2000: 59). While these narratives of selfhood and becoming, egalitarianism and sexual liberation punctuate the media, Gold Coast literary fictions instead reveal the beach as a site of danger, wholly personifying the unknown. Within Amy Barker's Omega Park, Melissa Lucashenko's Steam Pigs, Georgia Savage's The House Tibet and Matthew Condon's Usher and A Night at the Pink Poodle, the beach is a ‘masculine’ space for testing the limit of the coastline and one's own capacity for survival. This article undertakes a close textual analysis of these novels and surveys other Gold Coast fictions alongside spatial analysis of the Gold Coast coastline. These fictions suggest that the Gold Coast is not simply a holiday world or ‘Crime Capital’ in the cultural imagination, but a mythic space with violent memories, opening out onto an infinite horizon of conflict and estrangement.'
Source: Abstract.
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The Slash Pile
2013
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— Appears in: The Monthly , April no. 88 2013; (p. 47-49) -
The Interview : Matthew Condon
Phillip Edmonds
(interviewer),
2009
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interview
— Appears in: Wet Ink , March no. 14 2009; (p. 23-27) -
[Review] A Night at the Pink Poodle
2007
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review
— Appears in: M/C Reviews , November 2007;
— Review of A Night at the Pink Poodle 1995 single work novel -
Beating a Beach Retreat
2003
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criticism
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 22 March 2003; (p. 6)
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[Review] A Night at the Pink Poodle
2007
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— Appears in: M/C Reviews , November 2007;
— Review of A Night at the Pink Poodle 1995 single work novel -
Under the Southern Cross
1995
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review
— Appears in: The Age , 18 November 1995; (p. 8)
— Review of Free Fall 1995 single work novel ; A Night at the Pink Poodle 1995 single work novel ; The Underwharf 1995 single work novel -
Icarus in Full Flight
1995
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review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 11-12 November 1995; (p. rev 8)
— Review of Free Fall 1995 single work novel ; A Night at the Pink Poodle 1995 single work novel -
Belly Dancing and Whispers
1995
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review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , August vol. 75 no. 1061 1995; (p. 30)
— Review of A Night at the Pink Poodle 1995 single work novel -
Myths Built Upon the Sand
1995
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review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 14 October 1995; (p. wkd 9)
— Review of A Night at the Pink Poodle 1995 single work novel -
Beating a Beach Retreat
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 22 March 2003; (p. 6) -
The Interview : Matthew Condon
Phillip Edmonds
(interviewer),
2009
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interview
— Appears in: Wet Ink , March no. 14 2009; (p. 23-27) -
The Slash Pile
2013
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column
— Appears in: The Monthly , April no. 88 2013; (p. 47-49) -
Loose Novel Takes Top Award
1996
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biography
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 5 September 1996; (p. 7) -
[Untitled] [Australian Book Review, November 1995]
1995
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correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 176 1995; (p. 3)
Awards
- 1996 winner Warana Writers' Awards — Steele Rudd Award
- Gold Coast, Queensland,