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The Godfather: Peter Corris on poetry

The Godfather: Peter Corris on poetry

by NRB | 13 Jul 2018 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

I was exposed to poetry in primary school – Walter de la Mare, perhaps, and ‘My Country’ by Dorothea Mackellar almost certainly. The greatest impact was from the Australian bush ballads by Lawson, Paterson, Gordon, et al. A fourth-grade teacher, Mr Harry, was an...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on writers about writers

The Godfather: Peter Corris on writers about writers

by NRB | 29 Jan 2016 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

With notable exceptions – Ian Fleming’s fulsome praise (to his face) of Raymond Chandler in a 1958 BBC broadcast interview, for example – writers are not usually particularly generous to each other. It’s a competitive business with everyone, as it were, fighting for...
ANGELA SLATTER The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings. Reviewed by Lou Murphy

ANGELA SLATTER The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings. Reviewed by Lou Murphy

by NRB | 25 Aug 2015 | SFF | 0 comments

The Bitterwood Bible is a masterful offering of haunting stories that traverse the bounds of myth and legend. In this prequel to Sourdough & Other Stories (2010) Slatter proves herself to be a master storyteller, offering a compendium of bittersweet tales to be...
HILLY JANES The Three Lives of Dylan Thomas. Reviewed by Peter Corris

HILLY JANES The Three Lives of Dylan Thomas. Reviewed by Peter Corris

by NRB | 26 Aug 2014 | Non-fiction | 2 comments

This book commemorates the 100th anniversary of  Thomas’s birth and offers new insights into his life. We ‘did’ Dylan Thomas in the fourth year of the Honours course in English at Melbourne University and I bought his Collected Poems second-hand at the...

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