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Aug 21, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Jo Case |Aidan Coleman |Alexander Cothren |Alexander Howard |Ali Mohammad Alizadeh |Amanda Tink | +44 more
Like so many avid readers around the world, I was fascinated by the recent New York Times list of the Best Books of the 21st century, as voted by 503 authors, critics and book lovers. But like many Australians, I was disappointed to see no Australian books on the list. Even those authors who’ve made a splash in the US literary scene this century – Helen Garner, Gerald Murnane, Maria Tumarkin – didn’t get a guernsey. That’s where we come in.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
australianbookreview.com.au | David McCooey |Arts Highlights
Poetry Poetry’s auditory affordances Tintinnabulum: New poems Giramondo, $27 pb, 81 pp Poetry Poetry’s auditory affordances Bells are often associated with the sacred. A resonating bell marks out a space for reverence to inhabit. It calls for attention on the part of the devotee, for a shift in perception from the mundane to the sanctified. A ‘tintinnabulum’ is a small bell, and it is the name that the acclaimed poet Judith Beveridge has given to her latest collection of poems....
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
meanjin.com.au | David McCooey |Maria Takolander
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May 27, 2024 | 
dailybulletin.com.au | David McCooey
Wrong Norma, the latest collection of writings (and drawings and facsimiles) by the feted Canadian poet Anne Carson, is a work full of allusions, quotations, references, parody and other forms of stylised evocation. Sometimes the allusions are more buried than a quick Google allows for. The opening piece 1=1, for instance, is a meditation on (among other things) swimming.
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May 23, 2024 | 
hashtag.net.au | David McCooey
Wrong Norma, the latest collection of writings (and drawings and facsimiles) by the feted Canadian poet Anne Carson, is a work full of allusions, quotations, references, parody and other forms of stylised evocation. Sometimes the allusions are more buried than a quick Google allows for. The opening piece 1=1, for instance, is a meditation on (among other things) swimming.
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May 22, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | David McCooey
By David McCooey, Professor of Writing and Literature, Deakin University
Wrong Norma, the latest collection of writings (and drawings and facsimiles) by the feted Canadian poet Anne Carson, is a work full of allusions, quotations, references, parody and other forms of stylised evocation. Sometimes the allusions are more buried than a quick Google allows for.
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May 22, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | David McCooey
Wrong Norma, the latest collection of writings (and drawings and facsimiles) by the feted Canadian poet Anne Carson, is a work full of allusions, quotations, references, parody and other forms of stylised evocation. Sometimes the allusions are more buried than a quick Google allows for. The opening piece 1=1, for instance, is a meditation on (among other things) swimming.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
australianbookreview.com.au | David McCooey |Arts Highlights
Poetry The poetry of loss In the famous opening sequence of the 1946 film A Matter of Life and Death, an RAF pilot, flying his burning Lancaster bomber over the English Channel, talks with a radio operator at a nearby English base. Apparently facing certain death, the pilot quotes Sir Walter Raleigh’s ‘The Passionate Man’s Pilgrimage’, a poem allegedly written just before its author’s execution in 1618. ‘Give me my scallop shell of quiet, / My staff of faith to walk upon,’ the pilot recites,...
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
islandmag.com | Maria Takolander |David McCooey
1. I can do magic. That’s what she told me when we met. We had found ourselves walking side-by-side among a small group of strangers on a tour of the local gardens. She told me her name and then came out with the confession. It hung between us, like a rabbit, pale and trembling, pulled out of an invisible hat. I had no idea what she was talking about. I wondered: why had she hand-picked me? I was becoming paranoid: what was I unknowingly giving away about myself?
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
canberratimes.com.au | David McCooey
Illness memoir is based on a tension between the general and the particular. The writer presents (to use a medical term) as both representing all sufferers of a particular malady - in this case, myeloma - and a unique individual experiencing a specific, unrepeatable event. or signup to continue readingSee subscription optionsPeter Goldsworthy, who is both a GP and a prize-winning writer, is better equipped than most to engage with this tension.
