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October 2002
Issue No. 245   A$7.50 (incl.GST)

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LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ESSAY

'The Survival of Poetry'

Peter Porter
 

ADVANCES

 

CONTRIBUTORS

 
LETTERS Morag Fraser, Boris Frankel, A.K. Macdougall
 
DIARY Peter Beilharz
 

ABORIGINAL STUDIES

Ann Curthoys: Freedom Ride Meredith Curnow

Marilyn Lake: Faith

Gillian Whitlock

Veronica Brodie: My Side of the Bridge

Leah Purcell: Black Chicks Talking Kate Guest
 
MEMOIR

Nicholas Jose: Black Sheep

Kim Mahood

Jan Bassett: The Facing Island

Joy Hooton
 

LETTERS

Frances de Groen and Laurie Hergenhan (eds): Xavier Herbert: Letters

Jacqueline Kent
 
POEMS

Judith Beveridge

 

Chris Edwards

 
 

NATIONAL NEWS

Doreen Mellor

 
 

BIOGRAPHY

Tim Rowse: Nugget Coombs

Morag Fraser

Miriam Estensen: The Life of Matthew Flinders

 

Klaus Toft: The Navigators

Gillian Dooley

 

Gerald Stone: Singo Bridget Griffen-Foley
 

POLITICS

James Cotton and John Ravenhill (eds): The National Interest in a Global Era

  Lindy Edwards: How to Argue with an Economist  
  Susan Hawthorne: Wild Politics  
  Peter Saunders: The Ends and Means of Welfare
  Joseph Stiglitz: Globalization and Its Discontents Allan Patience
  Sylvia Lawson: How Simone de Beauvoir
Died in Australia
Heather Neilson
 

POETRY

Rodney Hall: The Owner of My Face

 

  Les Murray: Collected Poems

Peter Steele

  Peter Porter, Sean O'Brien and John Kinsella:
Rivers

 

Warrick Wynne: The State of the Rivers
and Streams

Geoff Page

 

M.T.C. Cronin: My Lover's Back

 

  Coral Hull: Bestiary

Lisa Gorton

 

Peter Bakowski: Days That We Couldn't Rehearse

David Lumsden

 

ESSAY

Keeping up with the Cringe

John Rickard

 

FICTION

Dorothy Porter: Wild Surmise

Stephanie Trigg

 

Alex Miller: Journey to the Stone Country Peter Pierce

 

Marele Day: Mrs Cook

 

Richard King: Carrion Colony Nicholas Drayson

 

Nikos Athanasou: The Greek Liar

 
 

Stephen Orr: Attempts to Draw Jesus

Michael Williams

 

Margaret Bearman: Above the Water

 

Saskia Beudel: Borrowed Eyes

Jenny Digby
 
CRIME FICTION

Garry Crew: The Diviner's Son

 

Kerry Greenwood: Murder in Montparnasse

 

Gabrielle Lord: Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing

R.J. Thompson

FOOD

Stephen Downes: Advanced Australian Fare

 

Laurel Evelyn Dyson: How to Cook a Galah

Patricia O'Donnell
PICTURE BOOKS

Pamela Allen: Daisy All-Sorts

 

Janeen Brian and Kilmeny Niland: Wishbone

 
Gael Cresp and Anna Pignataro: Fish for Breakfast
Guundie Kuchling: Silverskin
John Marsden and Craig Smith:
A Day in the Life of Me
Moira Robinson
 

YOUNG ADULT FICTION

Felice Arena and Garry Lyon: Specky Magee

 

Allan Baillie: Treasure Hunters

 

Morris Gleitzman: Boy Overboard

 

Maureen McCarthy: When You Wake and Find Me Gone

 

David Metzenthen: Wildlight

 

Markus Zusak: The Messenger Pam Macintyre
 

YOUNG ADULT

Anthony Hill: Young Digger

NON-FICTION

Rex Hunt: Rex

John Nicholson: The Mighty Murray

Paul Salmon: Fish Tales Margaret Robson Kett
 
AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW OCTOBER 2002