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May 6, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Abdulrazak Gurnah |PHIL BROWN |Sean Sennett |Courtney Jaye
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May 1, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Abdulrazak Gurnah |Farrin Foster |Courtney Jaye |John Miles
An epic historical fiction debut novel, Saltblood is Francesca De Tores’ first foray into the genre after success as a poet and with her post-apocalyptic Fire Sermon series (written under the name Francesca Haig). The novel’s tale of gender, survival and adventure follows Mary Read from birth to death and takes in everything in between.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Abdulrazak Gurnah |Farrin Foster |Courtney Jaye |John Miles
“Ignore the present. Forget the past. The rocks remain unmoved.”The title of this Aboriginal/Blak poetry and story anthology, The Rocks Remain, comes from Brad Darkson’s prose contribution waiting for kakirra. The phrase is a solid theme throughout the anthology, which features 25 emerging and established Aboriginal poets and writers, all with a connection to South Australia. In the foreword, editors Karen Wyld and Dominic Guerrera say they didn’t “want the notion of borders to engender exclusion”.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Cameron Pegg |Heidi Maier |Courtney Jaye
It was a time before memes. When the film adaptation of Closer was released in 2004, Clive Owen’s sneering shut down of his on-screen partner Julia Roberts was shared on repeat. The infamous line closes the first act of the popular play, which premiered in 1997 and is being revived in Brisbane by La Boite, directed by the company’s artistic director Courtney Stewart. The insult stings as it lingers in the air, and we ponder what will happen to dermatologist Larry (Colin W.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |John Miles |Heidi Maier |Courtney Jaye
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Heidi Maier |Courtney Jaye |John Miles
In her introduction to the 2008 anthology Growing Up Asian in Australia, novelist Alice Pung observed how “… throughout Australian literary history, Asians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders”. “Our outside identity oscillates between being a grave threat to white nationhood and being the obedient racial group least likely to offend, depending on the political climate,” Pung wrote.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Courtney Jaye |John Miles |Susan Chenery
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Farrin Foster |Courtney Jaye |John Miles |Susan Chenery
The Goori people have sovereign ownership of their land. This is the premise on which Mykaela Saunders bases her speculative fiction book Always Will Be. Written as a collection of short stories and described by the author as an album, the book builds a fictional world around “what ifs”, with Goori people, sovereignty and community at the centre. Each chapter introduces a new character, a new time, a new family, or an old but not forgotten way of living. The book is all-consuming.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Abdulrazak Gurnah |Suzie Keen |Jane Llewellyn |Courtney Jaye
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Mar 24, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Olivia Stewart |Courtney Jaye
Wow! That’s the reaction you want to have when you see a big show and that’s what Handa Opera On Sydney Harbour’s West Side Story delivers. Of course, the setting alone has serious wow factor, with one of the world’s best views – Sydney’s Opera House and Harbour Bridge in the background. Top that with a production that’s equally iconic and epic in scale and you have a next-level experience justifying an interstate journey, particularly when there’s plenty of Queensland star power in the cast.
