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		<title>A life in writing : Les Murray</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Nicholas Wroe, The Guardian, November 20th 2010]: For the last few decades all of Les Murray&#8217;s books of poetry have opened with the same two statements. A brief biographical note tells the reader that he was &#8220;born in 1938, and grew up on a dairy farm at Bunyah on the north coast of New South [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/a-life-in-writing-les-murray/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Black power&#8217; activist and author had ASIO spooked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Gerry Carmen, Sydney Morning Herald, November 19th 2010]: Dr Roberta Sykes, a self-described chameleon who defied conventions to become a well-known activist for indigenous rights as well as a poet and author of renown, died at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney after failing to recover from a stroke suffered eight years ago. She [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/black-power-activist-and-author-had-asio-spooked/</link>
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		<title>Jennifer Compton : Kathleen Grattan Prize winner 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading Jennifer Compton&#8217;s facebook site and learned she&#8217;s won the Kathleen Grattan Prize for the publication of a book of poetry by University of Otago Press &#8211; and a handsome deal of moolah to go with it &#8230; (congratulations Jennifer). Jen admits being &#8216;pleased and thrilled and gobsmacked and grateful&#8217;: &#8216;I have been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/jennifer-compton-kathleen-grattan-prize-winner-2010/</link>
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		<title>Sally Vickers interview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Paige Turner, from her blog 'Paige Loves Books', November 15th 2010]: Recently in Australia as a guest of Melbourne&#8217;s Wheeler Centre, Salley, who had been invited to speak on the theme of life and death in her work, found the time to speak to me for Edge Radio&#8217;s Book Show. Jungian Psycholanalyst, former Booker Prize [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/sally-vickers-interview/</link>
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		<title>Aussie wins UK poetry prize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Australian Times, November 12th 2010]: Australian poet, Ross Donlon, has been awarded the Wenlock Poetry Festival Prize for his poem which, in the judges’ opinion, best addressed the theme ‘The Pity of War.’ - Donlon was born in Sydney and now lives in Castlemaine, Victoria, where he convenes a popular poetry reading. More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/aussie-wins-uk-poetry-prize/</link>
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		<title>Events, Perth Poetry Club [WA]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sat. 20 Nov. Perth Poetry Club with Nandi Chinna Event: Perth Poetry Club Reading Special Guest: Nandi Chinna Date: 20th November Time: 2-4pm Venue: at The Moon, Address: 323 William Street, Northbridge. + Plus open mike. All welcome. Come and listen. About Nandi Chinna: Prize-winning poet NANDI CHINNA, who writes in, and about, Western Australia, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/events-perth-poetry-club-wa/</link>
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		<title>Shortlist announced for 2011 Tasmania Book Prizes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Tasmanian Government media release, November 12th 2010]: The Minister for the Arts, David O’Byrne, today announced the eight books that have been short-listed for the Tasmania Book Prizes for 2011. “The Tasmania Book Prizes are a biennial recognition of excellence in writing about Tasmania and a celebration of Tasmanian writers and publishers who contribute so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/shortlist-announced-for-2011-tasmania-book-prizes/</link>
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		<title>Activist Roberta Sykes dead at 67</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Sydney Morning Herald, November 16th 2010]: Aboriginal rights campaigner, author and poet Roberta &#8220;Bobbi&#8221; Sykes has died at the age of 67. More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/activist-roberta-sykes-dead-at-67/</link>
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		<title>The Arts, and Government</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Don Aitken, 'On Line Opinion, November 15th 2010]: &#8220;The arts&#8221; is a term that covers a very large set of creative activities. We can see the urge to create in almost every aspect of human existence &#8211; our clothing, our housing, our sports and physical activities, our gardens, our motor vehicles, aeroplanes, ships, and of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-arts-and-government/</link>
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		<title>The Evanescence of Print</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Chris Flynn, from the blog 'Killings', November 12th 2010]: In November of 2009 I interviewed Sophie Cunningham for my blog (part one here, part two here), as I was interested both in her on-hold career as a novelist and the changes she had made since taking over the editorship at Meanjin. With her recent announcement [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-evanescence-of-print/</link>
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		<title>Literary postman delivers again, winning mentor&#8217;s bequest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Susan Wyndham, Sydney Morning Herald, November 13th 2010]: Patrick White wrote a line of praise for the cover of David Foster&#8217;s first work of fiction, North South West, in 1973 and later said: &#8221;One reason why I like Foster&#8217;s novels is that he isn&#8217;t afraid of sour milk and what&#8217;s repulsive in life.&#8221; White would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/literary-postman-delivers-again-winning-mentors-bequest/</link>
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		<title>The new illiteracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Tim Dunlop, 'The Drum', November 11th 2010]: Books have always been something of a sacred object for me, something to collect, display, show off, dip into at will, carry from house to house and even imagine handing onto my son. Over the years I&#8217;ve spent a fortune on them and have guarded them closely. Not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-new-illiteracy/</link>
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		<title>Cathcart wins Colin Roderick Award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from Bookseller &#038; Publisher, November 10th 2010]: Michael Cathcart is the winner of the Colin Roderick Award for the best Australian book of 2009. Cathcart was presented with the $10,000 award and the H.T. Priestley Medal last week in Townsville for his book The Water Dreamers: The Remarkable History of Our Dry Continent (Text). More [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/cathcart-wins-colin-roderick-award/</link>
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		<title>2010 Tasmanian Young Historian Announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Year 10 student from Ogilvie High School in Hobart has been named as Tasmanian Young Historian for 2010, for documenting the life of her German immigrant grandfather. The Premier, David Bartlett, today congratulated 16-year-old Lauren Kutzner on winning the top award &#8211; the Premier’s Medal &#8211; as part of the 2010 Australian National History [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/2010-tasmanian-young-historian-announced/</link>
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		<title>PM honours Australia&#8217;s top titles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[ABC News, November 8th 2010]: An early history of Sydney and the fictional tale of a child raised by a pack of wild dogs have won the $100,000 Prime Minister&#8217;s Literary Awards. The Colony: A History Of Early Sydney by archaeologist and historian Grace Karskens was the winner of the nonfiction award, while Eva Hornung&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/pm-honours-australias-top-titles/</link>
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		<title>Hobart Bookshop : launch of Robert Cox&#8217;s &#8216;Baptised in Blood&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hobart Bookshop and Wellington Bridge Press cordially invite you to the launch by Sorell mayor Carmel Torenius of Robert Cox’s new book Baptised in Blood: The shocking secret history of Sorell at Hobart Bookshop, 22 Salamanca Square, Hobart, at 5.30pm on Thursday 2 December All welcome]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/hobart-bookshop-launch-of-robert-coxs-baptised-in-blood/</link>
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		<title>Republic Readings, Hobart : Sunday 7th November</title>
		<description><![CDATA[REPUBLIC READINGS Sunday 7 November 3-5pm Republic Bar &#038; Cafe 299 Elizabeth St North Hobart Guest poets Laurie Brinklow, Sarah Day and the open section. Laurie Brinklow is a writer / editor / book publisher from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Sarah Day has had six books of poems published, in Australia and UK, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/republic-readings-hobart-sunday-7th-november/</link>
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		<title>What would on-line only mean for Meanjin?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Ambit Gambit', October 28th 2010]: The SMH carries a story that literary magazine Meanjin is to become an online only publication. I’ve mixed feelings about that. For starters Meanjin shares a Queensland heritage along with OLO, with its name in fact deriving from the aboriginal name for the land where Brisbane is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/what-would-on-line-only-mean-for-meanjin/</link>
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		<title>Engaging Fiction: Literature, Life and How Creative Writing Programs are Ruining Everything, Apparently</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Emmett Stinson, from the blog 'Kill Your Darlings', October 21st 2010]: Moreover, Australian literary journals have considerably more public visibility than their US counterparts; the Virginia Quarterly Review, for example, claims a circulation of more than 7000 – which would certainly be a large number by Australian standards. But when you consider that the US [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/engaging-fiction-literature-life-and-how-creative-writing-programs-are-ruining-everything-apparently/</link>
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		<title>Launch : &#8216;Designs on the Body&#8217; [Lyn Reeves]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lyn Reeves&#8217; new collection of poems Designs on the Body [Interactive Publications Pty Ltd] will be launched at Readings, 112 Acland Street, St Kilda on Thursday 18th November. From 6:30 pm, free with refreshments.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/launch-designs-on-the-body-lyn-reeves/</link>
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		<title>Hospital visit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry to hear Geoff Dean&#8217;s in hospital after a fall, but he&#8217;s on the mend. He swears he&#8217;ll never bother answering the phone again while he&#8217;s taking a shower, he&#8217;s learnt his lesson. Apart from the pain, and the notion of effectively putting his life on hold till he recovers, Geoff most regrets he wasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/hospital-visit/</link>
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		<title>Report paints moving pictures for authors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Stephen Romei, The Australian, November 2nd 2010]: Authors seeking the key to success can take a piece of advice from a new report on publishing: they ought to be in pictures. The two most successful books to receive government funding between 1995-2005 were Christos Tsiolkas&#8217;s debut novel Loaded, which was filmed as Head On, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/report-paints-moving-pictures-for-authors/</link>
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		<title>Book launch : Hobart Bookshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Susanna Hoe and The Hobart Bookshop are pleased to invite you to the launch, by Frances Underwood, of Tasmania: Women, History, Books and Places, the third in Hoe&#8217;s &#8220;Of Islands and Women&#8221; series. When: Thursday November 25th, 5:30pm Where: The Hobart Bookshop, 22 Salamanca Square All welcome to this free event.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/book-launch-hobart-bookshop-5/</link>
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		<title>Movement at Meanjin: undervalued journal stuck between old and new</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Ben Eltham, Crikey, October 29th 2010]: The ructions at literary journal Meanjin Quarterly remind us that what counts in publishing, print or online, is not only money, but quality writing and editing. It’s indicative of the economic and technological changes transforming Australian culture that this is the second publication I write regularly for to get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/movement-at-meanjin-undervalued-journal-stuck-between-old-and-new/</link>
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		<title>Extempore : issue five launched</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from 'extempore's' website, October 30th 2010]: Issue 5 of extempore is now officially out in the world, after our launch at the Wangaratta Library. We’ve now launched an issue of the journal at each festival since 2008 and there was a tinge of sadness to the news we confirmed at the event, that Issue 5 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/extempore-issue-five-launched/</link>
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		<title>Treat for readers of Miles Franklin winners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Stuart Beaton, 'Xinhua', October 29th 2010]: The Chinese translations of 10 Miles Franklin Award-winning novels have just been launched, bringing readers some of the best contemporary work and offering deep insights into Australian society. &#8220;We chose them to promote a kind of cultural dialogue, between China and Australia, because Chinese people get to know Australian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/treat-for-readers-of-miles-franklin-winners/</link>
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		<title>Meanjin editor bites the dust, mag to follow?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Peter Craven, The Age, October 28th 2010]: If the flagship literary journal is only online, it will cease to exist. Australia&#8217;s most famous literary magazine, Meanjin, is again about to lose its editor and the magazine, which was once described as having put Melbourne University on the map, looks like being forced to go online [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/meanjin-editor-bites-the-dust-mag-to-follow/</link>
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		<title>The genius of Wayne Macauley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Emmett Stinson, from his blog 'Known Unknowns', October 27th 2010]: Tonight I have the enviable honour of launching Wayne Macauley’s new book, Other Stories. I’m excited to speak about that, but, before doing so, I’m going to begin with a brief anecdote, as launchers of books are so often wont to do. Several years ago [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-genius-of-wayne-macauley/</link>
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		<title>Culture is bigger than the arts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Ben Eltham, Overland 200, Spring 2010, published September 4th 2010]: Last year I had a meeting with two officers of the Australia Council. The Australia Council – or OzCo, as nearly everyone in the cultural industries calls it – is the federal government’s arts funding and advisory body. The meeting was with two of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/culture-is-bigger-than-the-arts/</link>
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		<title>Book review : Leaving home with Henry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Emmett Stinson, from the blog 'Known Unknowns', October 26th 2010]: At heart, Phillip Edmonds’s new novella, Leaving Home with Henry, is a sort of fictionalised travelogue about driving across Australia, albeit one with a significant twist: Trevor, who has departed from Adelaide in order to escape ‘terrifying domestic moments’ and to find ‘a way to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/book-review-leaving-home-with-henry/</link>
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		<title>I write what I see : Christina Stead speaks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Jan Chandler, Australian Stage, October 25th 2010]: In I Write What I See: Christina Stead Speaks Melbourne-based writer and director Darryl Emmerson has dared to bring Christina Stead, the person and the writer, to the stage in a one-woman performance. To the best of his knowledge, this is the first time Stead has been portrayed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/i-write-what-i-see-christina-stead-speaks/</link>
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		<title>Hobart reading at the Lark &#8211; Wedneday : Pete Hay, Laurie Brinklow, Deirdre Kessler</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Lark, Hobart 6pm Wednesday Pete Hay along with Canadian writers Laurie Brinklow and Deirdre Kessler : &#8216;Small Island Dreaming&#8217;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/reading-the-lark-wedneday-pete-hay-laurie-brinklow-deirdre-kessler/</link>
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		<title>The web killed the literary review &#8211; and it&#8217;s not all bad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Ellen Whyte, from the blog 'eric forbes' book addicts guide to good books']: When Tim Berners-Lee and his team launched the Web 20 years ago, it was a crushing blow to the literary book review. They probably didn’t mean it: at least, there’s no record of Tim saying, “That’s gonna fix those guys at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-web-killed-the-literary-review-and-its-not-all-bad/</link>
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		<title>Fremantle Press : 2011 fiction teasers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2011 has an absolute cracker of a fiction list. In February treat yourself to a crime thriller which flawlessly balances ‘gripping’ and ‘laconic’. Prime Cut is set in Hopetoun and Ravensthorpe on the state’s south coast. It is about the seamy side of the mining boom. The only thing better than reading a crime novel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/fremantle-press-2011-fiction-teasers/</link>
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		<title>How to read poetry aloud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Jonathan Mayhew, from the blog 'Bemsha SWING', October 23rd 2010]: First of all, you should always read poetry aloud even if you are reading silently. In other words, you should hear it in your mind as you read it. You should have an idea oral reading in your head before you even think about reading [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/how-to-read-poetry-aloud/</link>
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		<title>Stu Hatton&#8217;s &#8216;How to be Hungry&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from Stu Hatton] Well, I know I’ve been talking about this for ages, but my book of poems How to be Hungry is finally available. How to be Hungry mainly features poems I’ve written since 2006, based around the theme of desire in its various forms. You can order it online by following this link: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/stu-hattons-how-to-be-hungry/</link>
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		<title>Profile : Christine Townend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Lucinda Schmidt, Sydney Morning Herald, October 20th 2010]: Although she loved animals as a child, and grew up in Melbourne then Sydney with various pets &#8211; including a pony, dogs, rabbits, rats and birds &#8211; Townend says her first trip to India, in 1975, was a turning point. &#8221;I was a troubled person at that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/profile-christine-townend/</link>
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		<title>Last letter, last word</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Helen Hajnoczky, from the blog 'Lemon Hound' October 20th 2010]: On October 11th the New Statesman printed a previously unpublished poem by Ted Hughes which discusses the last time he saw his then estranged wife Sylvia Plath alive. While poking around on the internet trying to track down the full text of the poem, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/last-letter-last-word/</link>
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		<title>Poetry Pedlars meetings, Launceston &#8230; Nov, Dec</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi Poetry Pedlars, Note that on Thursday (this week) @ 7:00pm there is a special poetry &#038; prose reading at the Royal Oak in the Boatshed, featuring many local luminaries, including poetry slam winner Tim Thorne. For those of you that came tonight, thanks for your attendance, with 15 entries it was one of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/poetry-pedlars-meetings-launceston-nov-dec/</link>
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		<title>Inside the killing fields of Queensland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Richard Fotheringham, The Australian, October 6th 2010]: The discovery of a memoir by Steele Rudd&#8217;s father sheds new light on the murderous collision between settlers and Aborigines on the Darling Downs. More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/inside-the-killing-fields-of-queensland/</link>
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		<title>From the other side of the world, words to enchant children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Finegan Kruckemeyer, Yorkshire Post, October 4th 2010]: I&#8217;m sitting at home in Hobart, Tasmania, 11,000 miles from Wendy Harris, artistic director of Leeds-based Tutti Frutti productions. Another considerable distance from us both are Peter Stamm and Jutta Bauer, the German writer and illustrator of a children&#8217;s book called When We Lived in Uncle&#8217;s Hat. More [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/from-the-other-side-of-the-world-words-to-enchant-children/</link>
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		<title>Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize 2010 : results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WINNER: PRIZE: $2000 &#8216;Thursday, July 15&#8242; Maureen O’Shaughnessy, NSW HIGHLY COMMENDED: PRIZE: $300 &#8216;Deane Street&#8217; Garth Madsen, VIC &#8216;Four Poems for the Plant World&#8217; Sue Lockwood, VIC &#8216;Mermaids in the Basement&#8217; Claire Potter, WA GWEN HARWOOD POETRY PRIZE 2010: THE JUDGES&#8217; REPORT Jean Kent and Maria Takolander The 2010 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize attracted 262 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/gwen-harwood-poetry-prize-2010-results/</link>
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		<title>Poetry Pedlars Meeting &#8211; Monday 18th October</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from Steve Davis] The post-festival October gig is on this coming Monday upstairs @ The Royal Oak in Launceston at 7:30 pm The topic is &#8220;knitting&#8221; &#8211; make of it what you will!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/poetry-pedlars-meeting-monday-18th-october/</link>
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		<title>North Lights, Madness and Mayonnaise : The Truth about Writers&#8217; Retreats (part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Hannah Kent, from 'Killings', October 11th 2010]: Everyone has their reading habits. There are the ‘thou-shalt-not-crack-the-spine’ folks who read like perverts, peeking between narrowly opened pages. There are those who open books like they’re skinning rabbits, ripping the cover right around and ravaging any semblance of binding. There are the origami-ists, the ‘I-must-dog-ear-this-novel-to-within-an-inch-of-its-life’ readers, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/north-lights-madness-and-mayonaise-the-truth-about-writers-retreats-part-1/</link>
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		<title>David Rowbotham, poet shaped by war, dies aged 86</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Stephen Romei, The Australian, October 8th 2010]: Pioneering poet David Rowbotham, who lived through a grand sweep of history and captured it in verse, has died in Brisbane, aged 86. Tributes flowed yesterday for a writer considered at the vanguard of an Australian poetry that emerged in the post-war period. Novelist Christopher Koch said of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/david-rowbotham-poet-shaped-by-war-dies-aged-86/</link>
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		<title>Literary awards do more good than harm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Marieke Hardy, The ABC's 'The Drum Unleashed', October 13th 2010]: No doubt today finds you bug-eyed and exhausted and staring into space, subsisting solely on lurid-coloured energy drinks, since you likely stayed up all night to find out who won the 2010 Booker Prize. And who can blame you? With all the shrieking bitches and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/literary-awards-do-more-good-than-harm/</link>
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		<title>The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy &#8211; review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Patrick Ness, The Guardian, October 9th 2010]: Sandy and Rich met 25 years ago when they were both part of &#8220;the Blockade&#8221;, a massive environmental protest against the damming of Tasmania&#8217;s Franklin river. The protest worked: the dam was never built, and Sandy and Rich&#8217;s relationship kicked off in a surge of optimism and passion. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-world-beneath-by-cate-kennedy-review/</link>
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		<title>Ten questions for Tom Keneally &#8211; Ubud Writers&#8217; Festival diary day 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Bob Gosford, 'Crikey', October 11th 2010]: I caught up with Tom Keneally yesterday afternoon after an hour-long “In Conversation” session with Chris Hanley of the Byron Bay Writer’s Festival on the last day of this year’s Ubud Writers and Readers Festival. As soon as he came off stage he was swamped by loving fans with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/ten-questions-for-tom-keneally-ubud-writers-festival-diaryday-4/</link>
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		<title>Llosa at long odds, but none worthier</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Peter Craven, the ABC's 'The Drum Unleashed', October 8th 2010]: It was a strange Nobel Prize for Literature to see looming on the horizon from the distance of the Australian literary world. Australia is less like Collingwood than it is like St Kilda in literary terms. The Nobel premiership has come to us once, with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/llosa-at-long-odds-but-none-worthier/</link>
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		<title>Vale Nicholas Barwell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Maureen Sexton, from 'HaikuOz', October 6th 2010]: It is with great sadness that I must inform you of the passing of Nicholas Barwell. Nicholas was a wonderful and widely published haiku writer, having haiku published all over the world. Nicholas helped found the Creatrix Haiku Section, and encouraged and assisted many WA writers to become [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/vale-nicholas-barwell/</link>
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		<title>A Nobel vision of a better China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Perry Link, The Wall Street Journal, October 9th 2010]: By awarding Chinese literary critic Liu Xiaobo the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday, the five-member committee in Oslo did more than recognize one of the mainland&#8217;s most prominent and worthy dissidents. They endorsed the idea that &#8220;China&#8221; can be something different from, and better than, the Chinese [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/a-nobel-vision-of-a-better-china/</link>
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		<title>Robyn Rowland &#8211; launch invitations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Five Islands Press warmly invites you to the launch of Seasons of doubt &#038; burning New &#038; Selected Poems by Robyn Rowland Thursday 14th October, 2010 at 6.00pm for 6.30pm Wheeler Centre, 4th Floor, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne. Launch speaker: Alex Skovron Sunday 17th October, 2010 at 4.00pm Torquay Lawn Bowls Club, 47 The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/robyn-rowland-launch-invitations/</link>
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		<title>Opportunities : &#8216;Island&#8217; and &#8216;Islet&#8217; magazines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[30 November &#8211; OUR VERY OWN ISLAND: Island issue 124 and Islet issue 5 will feature poems, short stories, essays and reviews on the theme of Islands. This is a fantastic opportunity for writers to be included in these special issues, to be launched at the Ten Days on the Island festival in early April [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/opportunities-island-magazine/</link>
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		<title>Poetry Africa 2010 Opens not Cautiously, but with Cautions (Gallery)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from 'Book Southern Africa', October 5th 2010]: Jayne Fenton Keane from Australia read an edgy syncopated piece about Miles Davis, ‘birthing cool’, followed by the dignified Mama C, who managed to avoid falling into cliché as she grappled with the notion of African identity. The beautiful Ngwatilo Mawiyoo’s spirited performance of her poem ‘Goatmeat’ stood [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/poetry-africa-2010-opens-not-cautiously-but-with-cautions-gallery/</link>
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		<title>2010 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Island magazine, with the proud support of The Hobart Bookshop and the Hobart City Council, invites you to the announcement of the 2010 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize winners, judged by Maria Takolander and Jean Kent. The evening will include prize announcements by The Right Hon the Lord Mayor of Hobart, Alderman Rob Valentine, and by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/2010-gwen-harwood-poetry-prize/</link>
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		<title>Book launch Monica McInerney</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hobart Bookshop is very pleased to invite you to its launch of Monica McInerney&#8217;s latest book, At Home with the Templetons. Monica McInerney is the bestselling author of the internationally acclaimed novels, A Taste for It, Upside Down Inside Out, Spin the Bottle, The Alphabet Sisters, Family Baggage and Those Faraday Girls, which won [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/book-launch-monica-mcinerney/</link>
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		<title>Peter Bakowski reading at Fullers, Hobart : 11th October</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The next instalment of Fullers Verse brings Peter Bakowski, one of Australia&#8217;s finest contemporary poets. &#8216;Beneath Our Armour&#8217;s&#8217; portrait poems cover vast tracts of history, geography and personae in a way that is at once intimate and epic. Fullers Bookshop, Hobart &#8211; Monday 11th October at 6pm]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/peter-bakowski-reading-at-fullers-hobart-11th-october/</link>
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		<title>Reading &#8211; Castlemaine : October 31st 3-5 pm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[POETRY READING — October 31st 3pm &#8211; 5 pm ALL WELCOME! 5th Sunday this month only GUILDFORD HOTEL ON MIDLAND HIGHWAY, 10 MINUTES BY CAR FROM CASTLEMAINE Castlemaine Poetry Readings is delighted to present two award winning poets from New South Wales. Two friends, Carol Jenkins and Dael Allison, are coming to Victoria especially to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/reading-castlemaine-october-31st-3-5-pm/</link>
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		<title>Even busier weekend &#8230; Tasmanian Poetry Festival 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been Joe Dolce&#8217;s weekend; Joe contrived the winning entry in the Launceston Poetry Cup last night at the Tasmanian Poetry Festival, a particularly lively event commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the festival. The festival&#8217;s director was in fine fettle. ‘A couple of things I just want to go through: it’s been a year of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/even-busier-weekend/</link>
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		<title>Frosty Friday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'An Ontarian in Newfoundland', September 24th 2010]: There are some authors I sometimes feel the urge to dislike on general principle, but then I read something of theirs and must admit that the urge to dislike proceeds from a vague sense of the writer and has little or nothing to do with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/frosty-frida/</link>
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		<title>Busy week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week … is travelling slowly &#8230; oh so slowly, probably because I’m heading up to the Tasmanian Poetry Festival in Launceston on Friday for the weekend, and looking forward to it … having booked a house for the first time, usually we simply stay in a hotel. After all, much of the time you’re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/busy-week/</link>
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		<title>Brave new world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Rosemary Sorensen, The Australian, September 25th 2010]: Faced with a long table behind which were seated the nine people who would decide if a poet could compete with the young scientists, lawyers and economists vying for a Fulbright scholarship to study in the US, Sarah Holland-Batt went on the offensive. &#8220;It was terrifying but I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/brave-new-world/</link>
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		<title>Poetry Slams Tasmania</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Chris Ball, 'ABC Radio', September 26th 2010]: The Tasmanian heats for this years Poetry Slam have been held. On Friday it was a packed house in Devonport for the first of the heats. Competition was so fierce that after a rematch, judges couldn&#8217;t separate third and fourth so four poets moved onto the final. On [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/poetry-slams-tasmania/</link>
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		<title>DIVERTIMENTI : VLEESKENS, BELTRAMETTI, CALDWELL, LEBER, SPENCE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[]Kris Hemensley, at &#8216;poetry &#038; ideas&#8217;, September 19th 2010]: Why wouldnt I admit it? Bored, irritated, enervated by the whole biz &#8211;what John Forbes, amplifying the Sydney/Melbourne, 1970s, &#8216;new poetry&#8217; discussion about the mainstream, called &#8220;talented earache&#8221;! Then again, as one good poem doesnt make a summer so one bad poem doesnt herald winter. Yet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/divertimenti-vleeskens-beltrametti-caldwell-leber-spence/</link>
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		<title>well, this ain&#8217;t literature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Bianca Jagger, 'Huffington Post', September 23rd 2010]: Teresa Lewis is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection today, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. At 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, she will be the first woman to be put to death by the State of Virginia since 1912. Lewis&#8217; crime is not one that ordinarily would warrant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/well-this-aint-literature/</link>
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		<title>Meena Kandasamy: Angry Young Women Are Labelled Hysterics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the journal 'Sampsonia Way']: When Meena Kandasamy speaks about the contemporary issues of her native India, she incisively reveals the societal assumptions that assign specific roles to people based on caste or gender. When she turns her attention to the past, she deconstructs the heroes. She uses her poetry like a scalpel to dismantle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/meena-kandasamy-angry-young-women-are-labelled-hysterics/</link>
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		<title>Arts funding reality check</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Marcus Westbury, from the ABC's 'The Drum Unleashed', September 21st 2010]: The Australia Council&#8217;s 2009-10 financial year numbers are in and they introduce a bit of a reality check into a growing debate about priorities within Australia&#8217;s arts funding system. If you were to take your cue from the likes of the Australian Chamber Orchestra&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/arts-funding-reality-check/</link>
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		<title>My first Lark</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Laurie Brinklow, from the blog 'Tasmania-bound', September 20th 2010]: I’d already heard of the Lark Distillery from Tasmanian Sue Dilley when she was part of “Tasmanian Frenzy” at the Frank Ledwell Storytelling and Comedy Festival at St. Peter’s Courthouse in July. Hosted by Patrick Ledwell, and featuring comedian Fraser McCallum and Poet Laureate Hugh MacDonald, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/my-first-lark/</link>
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		<title>Book launch, Hobart Bookshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Book launch The Hobart Bookshop, 5:30pm Thursday 30th September 2010 Pete Hay will launch Geoffrey Dean&#8217;s latest book of short stories, Mysteries, Myths and Miracles, published by Ginninderra Press. All welcome to this free event.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/book-launch-hobart-bookshop-4/</link>
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		<title>Ashley Capes: Stepping Over Seasons (a review by Patricia Prime)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from Graham Nunn's blog 'Another Lost Shark', September 17th 2010]: In his latest collection of poetry Ashley Capes mines the quotidian. The seasons play an important part in the life of the poet as he moves from “no whispers to quicken fruit” (“dawn”) through the “sagging tent ropes” of “slow moon” to “these / people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/ashley-capes-stepping-over-seasons-a-review-by-patricia-prime/</link>
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		<title>Getting beyond &#8216;damper prose&#8217;: S.A. Jones on Australian literature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[S.A. Jones, from the blog 'Killings', September 16th 2010]: At the book launch for Red Dress Walking, my friend and fellow Marlborough Street Book Club member Simone clinked my champagne flute and slyly remarked, ‘Well Serje, now that you are an Australian author, you’ll have to stop bagging them’. I poked my tongue out at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/getting-beyond-damper-prose-s-a-jones-on-australian-literature/</link>
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		<title>StAnza competitors win international poetry slam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Craig McManamon, The Courier, September 14th 2010]: A group of performance poets representing a St Andrews poetry festival have won a live &#8220;cyber slam&#8221; against their counterparts in Australia, without setting foot outside the town. More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/stanza-competitors-win-international-poetry-slam/</link>
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		<title>Castlemaine Poetry Reading Sunday 26th September</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GUILDFORD HOTEL ON MIDLAND HIGHWAY, 10 MINUTES BY CAR FROM CASTLEMAINE SUNDAY 26 September 2010 3pm — 5pm Castlemaine Poetry Readings is delighted to present these award-winning poets. Katherine Gallagher is visiting from London and will appear at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival and the Australian Poetry Festival. Many of Sandy Fitts’ poems have won prizes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/castlemaine-poetry-reading-sunday-26th-september/</link>
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		<title>Wooing the day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Robert Gray, The Australian, September 1st 2010]: Of all national poetries, Australia&#8217;s is most like the Irish, in the 20th century, because neither has been much caught up with modernism, the imperative to &#8220;make it new&#8221; (in form, that is, since there are no new emotions). More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/wooing-the-day/</link>
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		<title>International Literature Festival Berlin to stream 24-hour live reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[The Independent, Books, September 14th 2010]: The International Literature Festival is set to begin on September 15, presenting ten days of literary events throughout the German capital. On September 21, festival organizers hope to set a Guinness World Record with a 24-hour live-broadcast reading to coincide with the UN-designated International Day of Peace. More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/international-literature-festival-berlin-to-stream-24-hour-live-reading/</link>
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		<title>The return of the amateur critic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Alison Croggon, from the ABC's 'The Drum : unleashed', September 14th 2010]: &#8220;The internet is full of trolls,&#8221; said Age theatre critic Cameron Woodhead, during a lively public discussion on theatre criticism hosted last week by the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne. &#8220;If you sit a monkey at a type writer long enough he&#8217;ll write the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-return-of-the-amateur-critic/</link>
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		<title>Haiku in Australia 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Beverley George, from the blog 'HaikuOz', September 11th 2010]: Now seems like a good time to report briefly on the state of haiku in Australia. There is much to say that is positive. The Australian Haiku Society (HaikuOz) is web-based and made up of many components. Its leadership comprises a patron, president, secretary, web manager [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/haiku-in-australia-2010/</link>
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		<title>Failing Critical Failure: The problem with engaging in real conversation about literary criticism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Rebecca Starford, from the blog 'Killings', September 10th 2010]: It was a great privilege to be invited on the panel for ‘Critical Failure: Books’ at the Wheeler Centre on Tuesday evening. The session – which was one of four discussions on the state of critical writing in Australia – originated, according to the Wheeler Centre, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/failing-critical-failure-the-problem-with-engaging-in-real-conversation-about-literary-criticism/</link>
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		<title>Literary links : Reviewing the Reviewers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Emmett Stinson, from the blog 'Known Unknowns', SEptember 10th 2010): This week, virtually everyone that I've spoken to seems to have attended the event 'Critical Failure' at the Wheeler Centre, which considered the state of book reviewing in Australia. There is a weirdness, however, in bemoaning the problems with book reviewing, given that reviews, at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/literary-links-reviewing-the-reviewers/</link>
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		<title>The wisdom of Solzhenitsyn and the folly of Quadrant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Paul Norton, from the blog 'Larvatus Prodeo', September 10th 2010]: As I read articles by Peter Smith, Hal G. P. Colebatch, Mervyn Bendle and Patrick Morgan, amongst others, I never cease to be struck by the unreflective, unself-analytical conviction of these people that the world is indeed emphatically divided between good people and evil people, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-wisdom-of-solzhenitsyn-and-the-folly-of-quadrant/</link>
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		<title>Poetry festival &#8216;slams&#8217; into St. Andrews</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(BBC, 8th September 2010]: The first live poetry slam between Scotland and Australia will take place on Saturday. The organisers of StAnza: Scotland&#8217;s International Poetry Festival are using Skype to broadcast the event. A team of performance poets will gather in St Andrews to take on the opposing team at the Overload Poetry Festival in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/poetry-festival-slams-into-st-andrews/</link>
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		<title>Victorian Premier&#8217;s Literary Awards 2010 : shortlist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE VANCE PALMER PRIZE FOR FICTION Parrot and Olivier in America, Peter Carey, Penguin Group Australia The Bath Fugues, Brian Castro, Giramondo Publishing Summertime, J.M. Coetzee, Random House Australia Jasper Jones, Craig Silvey, Allen &#038; Unwin Truth, Peter Temple, Text Publishing THE NETTIE PALMER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION Popeye Never Told You: Childhood Memories of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/victorian-premiers-literary-awards-2010-shortlist/</link>
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		<title>Interview 4 : Lyn Reeves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[David P. Reiter, from 'IP eNews 47', September 2010]: David P. Reiter: You&#8217;re an established poet based in Tasmania. Would you say the interest in Tassie is higher for poetry these days than on the mainland. If so, why? Lyn Reeves: I&#8217;m not sure if there is more interest here than in other states, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/interview-4-lyn-reeves/</link>
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		<title>Hobart Bookshop : the website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends, readers, and supporters of The Hobart Bookshop, We are very pleased to announce to you our shiny new website, happily housed at http://www.hobartbookshop.com.au/ . The website is a place where we look forward to building a community of readers. We love it when people chat to us in the shop about what they&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/hobart-bookshop-the-website/</link>
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		<title>Surprising dilemmas : on being pigeonholed as a writer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Jo Case, from the blog 'Kill Your Darlings', September 7th 2010]: It’s interesting, after days of listening to various writers talk, to watch certain themes emerge – particularly the ones you’d least expect. One surprising thread of conversation across the Melbourne and Brisbane Writers’ Festivals was the mixed blessing of finding a niche as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/surprising-dilemmas-on-being-pigeonholed-as-a-writer/</link>
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		<title>Man Booker Prize 2010 shortlist announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter Carey, Emma Donoghue, Damon Galgut, Howard Jacobson, Andrea Levy and Tom McCarthy are today, Tuesday 7 September, announced as the six shortlisted authors for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. For over four decades the prize &#8211; the leading literary award in the English speaking world &#8211; has brought recognition, reward and readership [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/man-booker-prize-2010-shortlist-announced/</link>
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		<title>Australia and America &#8211; what&#8217;s the difference?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Adam Aitken, from his blog 'Adam in ( )', September 2nd 2010]: My colleague Susan Schultz at the university of Hawaii has had me read Kathleen Stewart&#8217;s wonderful book Ordinary Affects (Duke University Press), a book of ethnographic literature about ordinary places and people in Texas. But also about Deleuzean Affect. It&#8217;s very much in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/australia-and-america-whats-the-difference/</link>
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		<title>‘Tasmania is the end of the known world’: Nicholas Shakespeare, Amanda Lohrey and Anna Krien on Tasmania</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Estelle Tang, from 'Melbourne Writers Festival Blog', September 5th 2010]: In Small Place, Big Ideas, Nicholas Shakespeare, ‘a Pom’, recalled something written about Tasmania: ‘Tasmania is the end of the known world. Travel any further and you are on your way home again.’ Tasmania, famed for its beauty and its controversies, is often defined by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/%e2%80%98tasmania-is-the-end-of-the-known-world%e2%80%99-nicholas-shakespeare-amanda-lohrey-and-anna-krien-on-tasmania/</link>
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		<title>Literary prodigy to offer words of advice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Katherine Feeney, Sydney Morning Herald, September 3rd 2010]: One thing almost guaranteed to inflame jealousy is success at a tender age. Ben Naparstek was only 23 when he was controversially appointed editor of news magazine, The Monthly. This weekend at the Brisbane Writers Festival, the literary wunderkind will offer writers, many no doubt much older [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/literary-prodigy-to-offer-words-of-advice/</link>
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		<title>Tomorrow When the War Began</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Michael Clarke, ABC, September 3rd 2010]: There&#8217;s an amusing moment during Tomorrow When the War Began when a character is reading the book My Brilliant Career. She&#8217;s asked if it&#8217;s any good, and she says that it&#8217;s better than the movie. The other character replies that most books usually are. The film makers will be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/tomorrow-when-the-war-began/</link>
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		<title>Bugger the bloggers : old-world critics still count</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Georgie Williamson, The Australian, September 1st 2010]: My discovery of Australian literature took place 32 years late and almost 20,000km from home, in an ancient port on the Dorset coast. The unlikely venue was Lyme Regis, setting of John Fowles&#8217;s The French Lieutenant&#8217;s Woman and still &#8212; just &#8212; home to the author, an elderly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/bugger-the-bloggers-old-world-critics-still-count/</link>
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		<title>Closing date extended : Islet&#8217;s themed issue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Islet and Island would like to announce a change to their publication schedule. Islet will now be publishing its islands-themed issues in autumn (late March/early April) and will be launching these themed issues through the Tasmanian Writers&#8217; Centre, during the 2011 Ten Days on the Island festival. Islet is still calling for submissions. The new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/closing-date-extended-islets-themed-issue/</link>
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		<title>Australian Literary Review, September 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Stephen Romei, Editorial, Australian Literary Review, September 1st 2010]: I recently welcomed two hens into my household. Their official (that is, children-chosen) names are Nugget and Worm, but I call them Dame Judi and Mrs Smith. I get a lot of pleasure from looking after them: topping up their feed container, making sure they have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/australian-literary-review-september-2010/</link>
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		<title>Stanton traces author&#8217;s footprints</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Judith Kerr, The Redland Times, August 30th 2010]: Cleveland resident Stanton Mellick didn&#8217;t believe the 1980s critics who claimed Queensland was a cultural backwater, lacking a literary tradition, with no writers to call its own. So the former University of Queensland lecturer in English went on a 30-year mission to trace the steps of those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/stanton-traces-authors-footprints/</link>
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		<title>Reading New Poetry: Close Calls with Nonsense by Stephen Burt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Stephen Sossaman, from the journal Cerise Press, Summer 2010]: While he concentrates on the laudable, Burt is not oblivious to common problems of contemporary poetry. Without naming names, he singles out “technical failure, amusia, useless dissonance, clashing figures of speech, semantic redundancy, and other problems of the sort that get hashed out in creative writing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/reading-new-poetry-close-calls-with-nonsense-by-stephen-burt/</link>
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		<title>Weaving our stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Kathleen Noonan, The Courier-Mail, August 27th 2010]: Peter, a doctor, reads Rumi after a shift at a Brisbane emergency to calm his adrenalin-fizzing veins. David the policeman reads Auden while drinking coffee in an all-night service station after a Friday night shift on the Gold Coast, to restore his belief that all of humanity is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/weaving-our-stories/</link>
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		<title>Not for free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'ursprache', August 27th 2010]: A critic who had to buy the books he reviewed. No publisher would send him review copies.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/not-for-free/</link>
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		<title>Frank Kermode</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Verbumlogos', August 26th 2010]: In 2000, Frank Kermode, the great literary critic and scholar who died last week at the age of 90, gave a lecture called &#8220;The Cambridge Connection&#8221; about the history of the Cambridge University English department. It sounds like a parochial enough topic until you realize that the major [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/frank-kermode/</link>
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		<title>Library unveils letters of a cantankerous laureate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Steve Meacham, Sydney Morning Herald, August 27th 2010]: Patrick White, Australia&#8217;s most celebrated literary figure, was at best &#8221;a glass half-empty&#8221; kind of correspondent when it came to writing to friends. More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/library-unveils-letters-of-a-cantankerous-laureate/</link>
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		<title>Behind the scenes at The Great Paris Review Poetry Purge of 2010Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'We Are Who About To Die', July 19th 2010]: Picture this: you have your poems accepted by The Paris Review. Such an acceptance can mark the start of a great career, lead to a book deal or to be anthologized, or perhaps solidify a reputation in the small world this correspondent and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/behind-the-scenes-at-the-great-paris-review-poetry-purge-of-2010part-1/</link>
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		<title>further along</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Laurie Duggan, from the blog 'Graveney Marsh', August 25th 2010]: I have often played with the notion of authorship myself and as I’ve said elsewhere on this site one of my earliest influences was a poet who wasn’t a poet (or a person) at all: Ern Malley. My interaction with other poets has, to an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/further-along/</link>
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		<title>Poems missing from the record</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Andrew Duncan, from the blog 'Angel Exhaust', August 24th 2010]: The posting on Spender elsewhere on this site discusses Spender’s complex and highly motivated rebuilding of his poetic record, with the 1985 Collected being an especially fragile and minimal version, which quite probably leaves out half of his published poetry. The possibility of &#8216;rigging the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/poems-missing-from-the-record/</link>
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		<title>Brass Monkey Books: a cultural exchange between Indian and Australian literature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Note: Anjum Hasan and Brass Monkey Books will feature at Fullers Bookshop, Hobart on Saturday August 28th at 3.30 pm Ralph ******************************************************************* [Angela Meyer, from the blog 'Literary Minded', August 24th 2010]: Can you tell us a bit about why you’ve started your own publishing company? What gap is it addressing in the Australian market? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/brass-monkey-books-a-cultural-exchange-between-indian-and-australian-literature/</link>
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		<title>Verity La &#8211; issue two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[AS Patric, from his blog 'a.s.patric.Ink', August 22nd 2010]: Being involved with Verity La has been stunning. So many superb writers give fistfuls of heart at the asking. Listed below are the many offerings put together for Issue Two at Verity La. More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/verity-la-issue-two/</link>
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		<title>Lisa Greenaway : On Going Down Swinging No. 30</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is so important about round numbers? Why do we need to celebrate milestones, eras or fixed points in time? And is it the basic function of art to mark that time — whether it be the creation of poetry, stories, comics, any form of art — are we searching for some order from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/lisa-greenaway-on-going-down-swinging-no-30/</link>
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		<title>The Fifth Calibre Prize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FIRST PRIZE: $10,000 CLOSING DATE: 10 DECEMBER ‘What a wonderful thing is the essay! All honour to Australian Book Review and the Cultural Fund of Copyright Agency Limited for celebrating it with the Calibre Prize.’ Robert Dessaix Australian Book Review (ABR) and the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) seek entries for the fifth Calibre Prize for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-fifth-calibre-prize/</link>
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		<title>Castlemaine Poetry Reading : Sunday August 22nd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Poetry Reading &#8211; Sunday August 22nd. The Castlemaine Poetry Readings are privileged to feature two of Australia&#8217;s finest poets, Bronwyn Lea (Qld) and Chloe Wilson (Vic.) Both have lately featured at the Australian Poetry Centre&#8217;s Festival in South Australia also broadcast on Radio National&#8217;s Poetica. Flying from Queensland especially for the reading at the Guildford [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/castlemaine-poetry-reading-sunday-august-22nd/</link>
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		<title>Like, embrace the pain: the Bret Easton Ellis interview (part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Angela Meyer, from the blog 'Literary Minded', August 18th 2010]: Let’s begin at the end. After Kathy Charles and I finished our interview with the very engaging Bret Easton Ellis, we sat with his publicist over a couple of glasses of Chandon, waiting for Ellis to wrap-up with our friend Robbie Coleman. More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/like-embrace-the-pain-the-bret-easton-ellis-interview-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Jesus loves everyone. Do we need gay bookstores?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Lemonhound', August 16th 2010]: The long list of books about gay London would not have fit in my suitcase. Fascinating though. A history of queer culture in England. Not enough poetry&#8211;there never is enough poetry in gay bookshops is there? I don&#8217;t know if my friend David Groff&#8217;s anthology Persistent Voices was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/jesus-loves-everyone-do-we-need-gay-bookstores/</link>
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		<title>2010 Queensland Premier&#8217;s Literary Awards shortlist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2010 Queensland Premier&#8217;s Literary Awards shortlist Fiction Book Award * Peter Carey for Parrot and Olivier in America Penguin Group (Australia) * Brian Castro for The Bath Fugues Giramondo Publishing Company * J.M. Coetzee for Summertime Random House Australia * Steven Lang for 88 Lines About 44 Women Penguin Group (Australia) * Alex Miller for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/2010-queensland-premiers-literary-awards-shortlist/</link>
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		<title>Events in Hobart Bookland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Paige Loves Books', August 17th 2010]: Some events for you Oh! Hobartians or those visiting Hobartside &#8211; and don&#8217;t forget, there&#8217;s a well known poet in town &#8211; Chris Wallace-Crabbe. Considered one of Australia&#8217;s best poets, a literary critic and an educator, he is in town for the month of August. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/events-in-hobart-bookland/</link>
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		<title>Volumes of Words</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[promotion : Christchurch Writers Festival] With the Christchurch Writers Festival now only four weeks away, and ticket sales forging ahead, several sessions are expected to sell out this week, so if you haven’t already bought your tickets you are urged to get on to it straight away! The great thing about writers’ festivals is the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/volumes-of-words/</link>
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		<title>A Modest meditation on home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Eleanor Goodman, from the blog 'Best American Poetry', August 15th 2010]: But I’ve somehow managed to land for the moment in a city of constant change, and I find myself wanting to put down tentative surface roots. Here, the school year is filled with college students and their machinations, while summer brings tourists and those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/a-modest-meditation-on-home/</link>
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		<title>Ideas : dictating a masterpiece</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Amy Rowland, from the blog 'Verbumlogos', August 15th 2010]: More and more writers are using voice recognition software, which is constantly improving and even has an app for the iPhone. The novelist Richard Powers has explained his process of dictating novels to his PC tablet as a return to “writing by voice” as done by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/ideas-dictating-a-masterpiece/</link>
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		<title>America : land of loners?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Daniel Akst from the blog 'Verbumlogos', August 15th 2010]: Americans, plugged in and on the move, are confiding in their pets, their computers, and their spouses. What they need is to rediscover the value of friendship. Science-fiction writers make the best seers. In the late 1950s far-sighted Isaac Asimov imagined a sunny planet called Solaria, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/america-land-of-loners/</link>
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		<title>New Bodleian Publication: The First English Dictionary of Slang 1699</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[University of Oxford, August 11th 2010]: The first dictionary of slang, out of print for 300 years, is being published by the Bodleian Library from a rare copy unearthed in its collections. Originally entitled A New Dictionary of Terms, Ancient and Modern, of the Canting Crew, its aim was to educate the polite London classes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/new-bodleian-publication-the-first-english-dictionary-of-slang-1699/</link>
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		<title>How does literature unite the world?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Cate Kennedy, from the blog 'eric forbes' book addicts guide to good books'] “And what an expression of personal freedom writing is, especially in a world so increasingly intent on forming a mass identity for us. In spite of cultural differences or language barriers or the subtler barriers about who’s got a right to a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/how-does-literature-unite-the-world/</link>
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		<title>What now Tilda B? By Kathryn Lomer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'A Teacher Librarian's Reading', August 13th 2010]: Apparently this Australian author has won awards in the past, but I haven&#8217;t read any of her books previously. I VERY much enjoyed this one! More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/what-now-tilda-b-by-kathryn-lomer/</link>
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		<title>A response to Jonathan Mills State of the Arts lecture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Alison Croggon, 'The Wheeler Centre' blog, August 10th 2010]: I don’t know if schools still do this, but back then a staple of English comprehension lessons was the question: “What is the poet trying to say?” This question enraged me. I didn’t think the poet was trying to say anything: the poet said it. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/a-response-to-jonathan-mills-state-of-the-rts-lecture/</link>
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		<title>Byron Bay Writers&#8217; Festival 2010 diary, part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Angela Meyer, from the blog 'Literary Minded', August 13th 2010]: I had brekky with Alex and was in a great position to watch the whales and dolphins on a gorgeous, sunny morning. Sunday became the social day. At lunch time an old family friend, Lauren, came and picked me up, with her friend, and we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/byron-bay-writers-festival-2010-diary-part-3/</link>
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		<title>When does life end? A multiple choice test</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Susan Schultz, from 'Tinfish Editor's Blog', August 11th 2010]: I&#8217;ve had a series of conversations lately about my mother and other residents of her Alzheimer&#8217;s home. Politics and dysfunction are not the sole province of English departments, soccer clubs, or the U.S. Senate. Her home, too, is going through a period of turmoil, which I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/when-does-life-end-a-multiple-choice-test/</link>
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		<title>Friday the 13th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'verbumlogos', August 13th 2010]: Today is Friday the 13th. Twenty million Americans are feeling unlucky today — people who suffer fromfriggatriskaidekaphobia. It&#8217;s a 99-year-old word made up of a combination of the Norse and Greek roots words for &#8220;fear&#8221; and &#8220;Friday&#8221; and &#8220;13.&#8221; More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/friday-the-13th/</link>
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		<title>Malvern pudding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from Susan Zettell's blog, August 11th 2010]: In Carol Shields&#8217; novel The Stone Diaries, Mercy Goodwill makes a Malvern pudding, and after reading the description of the making of it, I have never forgotten the currants, the raspberries, the cream and the bread, nor the tender love with which the pudding was made. This time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/malvern-pudding/</link>
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		<title>The aesthetically poor and how they got there</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Robert Archambeau, from 'samizdat blog', August 10th 2010]: One of the more common arguments one hears, regarding the relative lack of popularity of one or another poet, is that said poet&#8217;s work is &#8220;difficult.&#8221; Such arguments are often followed by homiletics regarding the virtue or importance of difficulty. I should know: I&#8217;ve made them myself [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-aesthetically-poor-and-how-they-got-there/</link>
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		<title>Going Down Swinging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Chris Flynn, from 'Melbourne Writers' Festival Blog', August 12th 2010]: The humble literary journal often gets short shrift at writer’s festivals, despite being one of the main avenues through which new writers hone their skills and assume the mantle of being next year’s superstars. Not so at MWF! We love lit journals, big and small, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/going-down-swinging/</link>
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		<title>Write Around the Murray 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ABC Four Corners journalist, Chris Masters will return to Albury next month to headline the festival. Chris who began his journalistic career at 2CO, now ABC Goulburn Murray, will join a number of top name journalists in a panel discussion on sustaining news stories on Friday and is keynote speaker at the festival dinner on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/write-around-the-murray-2010/</link>
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		<title>Australian Literary Review, August 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Editorial, contents and contributors to the August 2010 edition of The Australian Literary Review More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/australian-literary-review-august-2010/</link>
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		<title>Omar Musa: The hip-hop poet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the log 'eric forbe's book addict's guide to good books', Sept 29th 2010]: What was the first thing you did after winning the 2008 Australian Poetry Slam? Is this your biggest achievement to date? It’s definitely equal to the release of my first hip-hop record, The Massive EP. Hip-hop and spoken word poetry go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/omar-musa-the-hip-hop-poet/</link>
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		<title>Byron Bay Writers Festival 2010 diary, part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Angela Meyer, from the blog 'Literary Minded', August 9th 2010]: At some point I looked over and saw the PanMacmillan ladies (publicists Tracey and Kate) with a boyish Bret Easton Ellis. I wondered what it would have been like for him, in this room full of strangers, in a country he’s never been to, knowing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/byron-bay-writers-festival-2010-diary-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Rudd&#8217;s girl pens a floaty portrait of political life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[John Simpson, South-East Advertiser, August 10th 2010]: The daughter of former prime minister and Griffith MP Kevin Rudd will use Bulimba literary haunt Riverbend Books as the venue to launch her debut novel. More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/rudds-girl-pens-a-floaty-portrait-of-political-life/</link>
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		<title>Ten years of publishing worth its Salt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[The Guardian 'books blog', July 30th 2010]: It was Cyril Connolly who said that literary magazines should only run for 10 years. After that, he seemed to imply, they&#8217;re in danger of running out of steam. So it was that Horizon folded after a decade of publishing the likes of Louis MacNeice, Dylan Thomas and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/ten-years-of-publishing-worth-its-salt/</link>
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		<title>A few things I learned about life as a poet from watching Bright Star</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Nikki Reimer, from the blog 'Lemon Hound' August 9th 2010]: *Girls need to be taught poetry by boys who write it. (Apparently they cannot read and figure it out for themselves.) *&#8221;Poetic craft is a sham. If poetic craft does not come as naturally to leaves to a tree then it better not come at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/a-few-things-i-learned-about-life-as-a-poet-from-watching-bright-star/</link>
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		<title>Martin Duwell reviews Peter Boyle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from Martin Duwell's blog 'Australian Poetry Review', August 6th 2010 ... with a nod to Andrew Burke]: This – by Australian standards, fabulously ambitious &#8211; new book by Peter Boyle imagines a collection of hitherto lost documents dating from, roughly, the eighth century BC – the age of Homer – to the end of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/zmartin-duwell-reviews-peter-boyle/</link>
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		<title>The unlearned and the unlearning : folk and naive styles in poetry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Andrew Duncan, from the blog 'Angel Exhaust'. August 5th 2010]: If we look for poetry which is naive in the sense that it is optimistic about life and poetry, is not drained of energy by rational criticism, which is decorative in a profound sense, then we are probably looking at David Barnett and Michael Haslam. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-unlearned-and-the-unlearning-folk-and-naive-styles-in-poetry/</link>
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		<title>The Whoel Shebang</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Chris Flynn, from the Melbourne Writers Festival Blog, August 7th 2010]: For me, one of the most satisfying aspects of MWF is how it involves local writers, particularly those who are beginning to dip their tootsies into the tumultuous waters of publishing. There are a range of great workshops designed to nurture the next generation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-whoel-shebang/</link>
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		<title>Essay &#8230; Ioannis Gatsiounus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'eric forbe's book addict's guide to good books', Sept 21st 2010]: Like anyone serious about writing, I sought to connect with an audience. The most obvious way to do so in this fragmented new century was through a handful of (mostly unread) literary journals, whose website warned that receive thousands of submissions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/essay-ioannis-gatsiounus/</link>
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		<title>Book launches : Hobart Bookshop 19th August</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hobart Bookshop and Ginninderra Press invite you to the launch of three books. Robert Cox Agony and Variations. This collection of short stories will be launched by Geoffrey Dean. Steve Tolbert&#8217;s young adult novel O&#8217;Leary: JI Terrorist Hunter will be launched by Dr Pam Allen. Stephen Matthews will launch Ian Kennedy Williams&#8217; Fugitive Places. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/book-launches-hobart-bookshop-19th-august/</link>
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		<title>The Proof is in the Proof</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Helen Hajnoczky, from the blog 'Lemon Hound', August 4th 2010]: Ok, admit it. You feel a sense of smug self-satisfaction every time you find a spelling error in a published novel, you laugh until you cry mocking newspaper headlines that say things like, “Thai Ministers Flea in Wake of Violence,” and you question the intelligence [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-proof-is-in-the-proof/</link>
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		<title>The loneliness of the long-distance publisher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Henry Rosenbloom, from 'Henry's Blog', Scribe Publications, August 2nd 2010] &#8211; via Emmett Stinson at &#8216;Known Unknowns&#8216;) It’s not easy being a trade publisher in Australia these days. The outside world has caught up with us: trade is terrible, e-books are still either a promise or a threat, and there remain large uncertainties about the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-loneliness-of-the-long-distance-publisher/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;The Crime of Huey Dunstan&#8217; by James McNeish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Paige Loves Books', August 5th 2010]: The eponymous crime of Huey Dunstan is the vehicle through which the story of the life of Ches, an 80 year old pyschologist specialising in trauma, is told. Huey is a young man convicted of a violent murder which, from all accounts, is out of character. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-crime-of-huey-dunstan-by-james-mcneish/</link>
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		<title>Strictly no previews</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Ellen Whyte, from the blog 'eric forbes’s book addict’s guide to good books']: When you give an interview, can you ask to see the piece before it comes out? Ellen Whyte explains why the answer is generally a resounding “No!” More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/strictly-no-previews/</link>
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		<title>dementia blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Al Filreis', August 3rd 2010]: I&#8217;ve read Susan Schultz&#8217; Dementia Blog &#8211; the ongoing blog project and also a book published under the same title (excerpts from the blog). The blog is the diary of a daughter who cares for her mother as the parent&#8217;s memory quickly fades, one crisis and change [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/dementia-blog/</link>
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		<title>Queensland Poetry Festival : program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Program Queensland Poetry Festival : spoken in one strange word 27 – 29 August 2010 at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts FRIDAY Shopfront Space Theatre Space 6.00pm Official Opening Including Arts Queensland Poetry Award Announcements MC: Paul Miley 7:30pm RUPTURE THE SILENCE Andrew Taylor Jon Paul Fiorentino August Kleinzahler Arts QLD Poet-in-Residence: Emily [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/queensland-poetry-festival-program/</link>
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		<title>Clancy overflowed with words</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[John McLaren, Joe and Jake Clancy, The Age, August 4th 2010]: Laurie Clancy, one of Australia&#8217;s most influential and award-winning authors, who published 57 short stories, four novels, four books of literary criticism and innumerable reviews and literary essays, has died of cancer at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. Fittingly, he chose to write the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/clancy-overflowed-with-words/</link>
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		<title>Cloudcatchers Winter Ginko</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Graham Nunn, from 'HaikuOz', July 31st 2010]: Most of us have accepted ‘beach’ as a summer kigo. However, participants in the winter ginko of the Cloudcatchers (Far North Coast of NSW) were obliged to re-think that concept, as it was held on Thursday 22 July at Shelly Beach, East Ballina. More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/cloudcatchers-winter-ginko/</link>
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		<title>Twilight of the comments streams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Robert Archambeau, from his blog 'samizdat blog', August 3rd 2010]: I suppose, in the end, what we have is a failure to adjust our expectations to the new conditions under which we write poetry, and write about poetry. When the dissemination of poems and commentary was limited by the technology of print, relatively few people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/twilight-of-the-comments-streams/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;He that gathereth togither nothing&#8230; &#8220;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[John Latta, from his blog 'Isola di Rifiuti', August 3rd 2010]: There are (obviously) no comment boxes here at Isola di Rifiuti. I write publicly in order to write, to work out a daily regimen of attending to things (weather, scents, the odd verbal-succors of my mopishness, &#038;c.), to make a record of what reading [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/he-that-gathereth/</link>
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		<title>Solutions &#8211; Derek Motion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from Verity La, July 30th 2010]: I think personality is found in poetry. I look for it locally, and try to ‘solve’ myself. There’s something generally applicable too – people work like this. We all want to talk about our experiences. We’re passively theorising, making stabs at solving the boring old existence riddle. This is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/solutions-derek-motion/</link>
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		<title>Cordite 33.1: The Remixes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cordite 33: Creative Commons contains thirty-three poems (okay, thirty four, but one of them’s an image), plus a wealth of feature material. But that’s not the end of it. In the spirit of Creative Commons, we’ve decided to make the poems in the issue available as downloadable Word and text documents. We ‘d therefore like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/cordite-33-1-the-remixes/</link>
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		<title>If ever you go to Dublin town</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Rosita Boland, The Irish Times, July 31st 2010]: On Monday, it was announced Dublin has been designated a Unesco City of Literature, joining the cities of Edinburgh in Scotland, Iowa in the United States and Melbourne in Australia. More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/if-ever-you-go-to-dublin-town/</link>
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		<title>Turning the page</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Lisa Clausen, The Australian, July 30th 2010]: Tasmania-based calligrapher Gemma Black knows the evocative power of the pen. When the national apology to the Stolen Generations was delivered by then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in 2008, Black was the Federal Government’s official calligrapher, responsible for its visitor books for foreign heads of state. Convinced that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/turning-the-page/</link>
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		<title>Is the Booker a barometer of the best literature?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Patrick Neate and Robert McCrum, The Observer, August 1st 2010]: Who knows how the Booker jury operated this time? It&#8217;s interesting to speculate. Each year one hears some judge or other protest his/her devout belief in &#8220;literary merit&#8221;, but the smell of many shortlists is too often of compromise, cowardice and crowd-pleasing. And to introduce [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/is-the-booker-a-barometer-of-the-best-literature/</link>
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		<title>Criticism&#8217;s Crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Brian Henry, from the blog 'The Best American Poetry', July 29th 2010]: Poetry criticism seems to be in a perpetual state of crisis. It’s not just that critics cannot agree on which poets or kinds of poetry are the best, but that poetry critics often have no common ground. They do not share the same [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/criticisms-crisis/</link>
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		<title>The hollow men</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Ken Edwards, from the blog 'Reality Street', July 30th 2010]: The success of Ian McEwan &#8211; sometimes cited these days as Britain&#8217;s leading novelist &#8211; totally baffles me. I recall him being held up as a model for me as a young writer in the 1970s. McEwan, then labelled &#8220;most promising&#8221; British writer, had a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-hollow-men/</link>
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		<title>Islet : Publication opportunity for emerging writers and visual artists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Islet (www.islet.com.au) is pleased to announce the theme for its summer issue, and is now calling for submissions addressing the theme of ISLANDS. You are invited to consider the theme imaginatively, broadly, and figuratively. Submissions close: Friday October 22 Submissions should be emailed to the editor at islet.online@utas.edu.au with ‘summer issue submission’ in the subject [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/islet-publication-opportunity-for-emerging-writers-and-visual-artists/</link>
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		<title>Thank Yu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Stephen McCarty, Time, August 9th 2010]: If you want to subvert the Chinese government these days, try writing a poem. Given the hypervigilance of China&#8217;s censors, you&#8217;d have thought that dissenting poets would be frog-marched to the nearest labor reform camp in the time that it takes to declaim a heptasyllabic pentameter. But the apparatchiks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/thank-yu/</link>
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		<title>Castlemaine launch : B.N. Oakman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Launch of BN Oakman&#8217;s poetry collection, In Defence of Hawaiian Shirts (Interactive Press), at Castlemaine Art Gallery on Sunday 15 August from 2.30pm. &#8220;We intend the occasion to be an entertaining one.&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/castlemaine-launch-b-n-oakman/</link>
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		<title>The Slap has dash at the Booker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Rosemary Sorensen, The Australian, July 29th 2010]: A novel about &#8220;modern Australia as an exercise in liberalism&#8221; has made the first cut for the world&#8217;s most discussed literary prize. Christos Tsiolkas&#8217;s The Slap, a story told from multiple perspectives about a child slapped at a barbecue (and everyone&#8217;s opinions about what that slap means), is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-slap-has-dash-at-the-booker/</link>
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		<title>Australian Poetry Festival: 3, 4, 5th Sept 2010 [Sydney]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The program for the seventh Australian Poetry Festival is now up at the Poets Union&#8217;s website as a pdf file [here]. Chris Wallace-Crabbe will deliver the Judith Wright Memorial Lecture. Guests this year: Emily Ballou John Bennett Judith Beveridge David Brooks Michelle Cahill Bonny Cassidy Michelle Dicinoski B. R. Dionysius Lucy Dougan Stephen Edgar Steve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/australian-poetry-festival-3-4-5th-sept-sydney/</link>
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		<title>Letter writing service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Need a well-crafted love letter? Or maybe you just need to end an affair with a terse verse. Get a team of Tasmanian poets, novelists and journalists to write on your behalf. They are waiting in local cafes to compose your letters either with the modest pen and paper, the good old fashioned manual typewriter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/letter-writing-service/</link>
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		<title>Speed Poets team up with Page Seventeen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Another Lost Shark', July 26th 2010]: The first Sunday of the month is sacred in these waters… nothing (or let’s say next to nothing) comes between this Lost Shark and SpeedPoets. But the first Sunday in August is even a little more special than usual, as SpeedPoets, Brisbane’s longest running poety/spoken word [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/speed-poets-team-up-with-page-seventeen/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s it really like to be copy-edited?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from The Economist's blog 'Johnson', July 26th 2010]: The piece starts inauspiciously, though: The word is douche bag. Douche space bag. People will insist that it&#8217;s one closed-up word—douchebag—but they are wrong. More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/whats-it-really-like-to-be-copy-edited/</link>
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		<title>Straight up, sacred cows beware</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Farah Farougue, Sydney Morning Herald, July 24th 2010]: A well-dressed woman with well-dressed vowels sits in a hotel lobby and recounts the day she dropped a rhetorical bomb at an anti-Vietnam War rally. A crowd had gathered at Sydney University and the woman, then just 20, strode to the podium. Her hands trembled; securing a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/straight-up-sacred-cows-beware/</link>
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		<title>Exploring the road home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Jose Borghino, The Australian, July 23rd 2010]: Anthologies have always been risky propositions, endangered species like their bastard cousins, the so-called &#8220;little magazines&#8221; that survive on the smell of a Literature Board grant and the saintly doggedness of the very few. Now that the internet is messing with our reading habits so that we (supposedly) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/exploring-the-road-home/</link>
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		<title>My Laureates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Robert Archambeau, from 'samizdat blog', July 23rd 2010]: By this point in my life I&#8217;ve listened — as peer, as old friend, and now as Senior Guy Who&#8217;s Been Through It All; in faculty lounge, in office, at back-yard barbecue, on barstool, by Skype, — to a lot of junior faculty cris du coer from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/my-laureates/</link>
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		<title>Meanjin, Overland, Going Down Swinging birthday parties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[at the Melbourne Writers&#8217; Festival More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/meanjin-overland-going-down-swinging-birthday-parties/</link>
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		<title>Launch, Hobart Bookshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hobart Bookshop invites you to the launch of Alistair Mant&#8217;s book about Bob Clifford, The Bastard&#8217;s A Genius. When: 5:30pm, Wednesday August 11th Where: The Hobart Bookshop, 22 Salamanca Square All welcome to this free event. The Hobart Bookshop 22 Salamanca Square Hobart Tasmania 7000 P 03 6223 1803 . F 03 6223 1804 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/launch-hobart-bookshop/</link>
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		<title>Sonnets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'verbumlogos', July 20th 2010]: Poets writing in English have six centuries’ worth of forms at their disposal. During the Renaissance, Shakespeare and Milton made blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) the standard mode for narrative and dramatic verse, while in the eighteenth century Dryden and Pope preferred the urbane rhythms of the heroic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/sonnets/</link>
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		<title>On a Sunday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Cashiers de Corey', July 18th 2010]: Not too long ago, I could think of no good reason that writers shouldn&#8217;t blog. At least, not writers who were interested in actual contact with their readers and with other writers &#8211; who sought many of the most immediate benefits of publication without having to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/on-a-sunday/</link>
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		<title>Manchester Poetry Prize 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First Prize : 10,000 Pounds Deadline for entries : 6th August 2010 The prize is open internationally and will award 10,000 pounds to the writer of the best portfolio of poetry submitted. The competition is open to writers aged 16 or over, there is no upper age limit. Entry fee is 15 pounds. Manchester Writing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/manchester-poetry-prize-2010/</link>
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		<title>Farwell Jessica Anderson (1916-2010) &#8211; and thanks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Jane Gleeson-White, on the 'overland' blog, July 15th 2010]: I can’t let the death last week of Australian writer Jessica Anderson go unremarked. Why? Because although she twice won the Miles Franklin Award (1978 and 1980) and her novel Tirra Lirra by the River has been on high school reading lists, Anderson was for most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/farwell-jessica-anderson-1916-2010-and-thanks/</link>
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		<title>Sarah Day at Fullers Bookshop (Hobart), tomorrow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fullers Hobart have begun a new series of events featuring the best poets they can get their hands on, from Tasmania and beyond. And who better to kick things off than Tasmania’s most highly regarded poet, Sarah Day? Join Sarah in conversation with radio personality Paige Turner, followed by readings from her recent collection, Grass [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/sarah-day-at-fuller-bookshop-hobart-tomorrow/</link>
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		<title>Distributing magazines in Tanzania</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from 'Adam Hooper (the blog)', July 17th 2010]: I&#8217;m (occasionally) helping a Tanzanian organization called Femina. Femina creates and distributes magazines about gender, sexuality and HIV. More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/distributing-magazines-in-tanzanie/</link>
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		<title>The dictionary of pure existence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from 'The Economist's' blog 'Johnson', July 15th 2010]: Further to my last post about &#8220;non-words&#8221;, I have to say that I, like Stan Carey, am a big fan of Wordnik. This is an online dictionary that takes the view that a word is any collection of letters that someone somewhere has used, and gives it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-dictionary-of-pure-existence/</link>
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		<title>The Prime Minister&#8217;s Literary Awards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[James Bradley, at the blog 'City of Tongues', July 15th 2010]: Then there are the notable omissions. I’m sure others will know their way round the other shortlists better than me, but on the Fiction shortlist, it’s interesting to note the judges have omitted both Peter Temple’s Truth, which won the Miles Franklin Award only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-prime-ministers-literary-awards/</link>
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		<title>Poetry Pedlars July meeting Monday 19th @ 7:30 pm [Launceston]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello Poetry Pedlars, Just reminding everyone the mind-winter gig is on next Monday upstairs @ The Royal Oak. Due to musical commitments, I will not be able to make this one, but I will catch up in August. Have a great night &#8211; oh &#8211; the topic is Mental As Anything &#8211; make of it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/poetry-pedlars-july-meeting-monday-19th-730-pm-launceston/</link>
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		<title>Paradise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[xerxes, from the blog 'verbumlogos', July 13th 2010]: It set me to thinking about paradise, again not the next-life kind. I have ceased to ponder a great deal what the church calls &#8220;eternal life,&#8221; honestly not so much piously leaving it in God&#8217;s hands as realizing that such existence is beyond my imagination, let alone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/paradise/</link>
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		<title>Small, Local Festivals: Calder&#8217;s Mobiles and the Significance of Formalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah yes, I could probably throw up something as considered as this in the equivalent time it&#8217;s taken Archambeau since his last blog posting: I wish:) &#8230;. I wouldn&#8217;t / couldn&#8217;t personally deny interest in the &#8216;moral aesthetic&#8217; vein because I see it essentially as fuelled by heartfelt conviction &#8211; yet I get the sense [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/small-local-festivals-calders-mobiles-and-the-significance-of-formalism/</link>
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		<title>Fremantle Poetry Month launch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest news from Fremantle Press comes from Emma Rooksby, one of three writers featured in the press&#8217; joint volume New Poets. While I&#8217;m not at all surprised to learn Emma has a first collection under her belt, I confess to being a tad surprised she&#8217;s a &#8216;first-time reader in public&#8217;&#8230;. Ralph Emma Rooksby on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/fremantle-poetry-month-launch/</link>
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		<title>Book launch, Hobart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hobart Bookshop is pleased to invite you to the launch of the next issue of The Famous Reporter. All welcome to this free event. Where: The Hobart Bookshop When: Thursday July 29th, 5:30pm The Hobart Bookshop 22 Salamanca Square Hobart Tasmania 7000 P 03 6223 1803 . F 03 6223 1804]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/book-launch-hobart-2/</link>
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		<title>Australia&#8217;s Mark Twain wins book of the year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[ABC News, Thurs July 1st 2010]: A tale of young love, inhumanity and racism has won Western Australian writer Craig Silvey two top accolades. More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/australias-mark-twain-wins-book-of-the-year/</link>
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		<title>Notes from the underground : a fresh breed of literary magazines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Rib Sharp, The Independent, July 5th 2010]: There&#8217;s an empty slot on the bookshelf between your pristine copies of McSweeney&#8217;s Quarterly Concern and Granta. You&#8217;d be forgiven for believing, what with all the nay-saying surrounding the publishing industry, that the best use for the space is as a cubby hole for your shiny new iPad. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/notes-from-the-underground-a-fresh-breed-of-literary-magazines/</link>
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		<title>Not just idle chatter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Lia Grainger, National Post, July 5th 2010]: I think a large proportion of the general public assumes poetry is boring,” Toronto poet Katherine Leyton says. “That, or they’re afraid of it.” She’s sitting in Plaza Flamingo restaurant on College Street, where an hour earlier Spain’s 2-0 World Cup victory over Honduras prompted the herd of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/not-just-idle-chatter/</link>
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		<title>Siobhan Hodge reviews &#8216;Over There: Poems from Singapore and Australia&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Cordite Poetry Review, June 29th 2010]: Over There: Poems from Singapore and Australia is ambitious. This anthology reads as a sample of more to come, rather than a clear achievement of the sizable task that it sets out in its introduction. Over There is not, as the title might initially suggest, a collection of travel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/siobhan-hodge-reviews-over-there-poems-from-singapore-and-australia/</link>
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		<title>Exquisite restraint, maximum expression: an interview with Colm Tóibín (part one)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Angela Meyer, from the blog 'Literary Minded], July 4th 2010]: Acclaimed Irish novelist Colm Tóibín was recently in Australia for the Sydney Writers Festival as well as events in Melbourne, including one for the Wheeler Centre. I caught up with Tóibín at his Melbourne hotel to ask him some questions about writing and his latest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/exquisite-restraint-maximum-expression-an-interview-with-colm-toibin-part-one/</link>
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		<title>Z is for the Unknown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Graham Nunn, from the blog 'Another Lost Shark', July 1st 2010]: And while she may be unknown to some of you, don’t keep it that way… as just hours ago Emily XYZ touched down on Australian shores to commence her 3-month residency here in Brisbane. To help out, the good folk at QLD Poetry Festival [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/z-is-for-the-unknown/</link>
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		<title>dotdotdash issue 4: Antimatter Launch Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When: 7:30pm Friday 2 July Where: Upstairs at the Claremont Hotel, Perth (cnr Bayview Tce and Gugeri St) Entry: $15, which includes a free copy of dotdotdash Issue 4: &#8216;Antimatter&#8217; dotdotdash is celebrating the release of it&#8217;s fourth issue! The latest edition, themed Antimatter, features works from nationally acclaimed writers such as A.S. Patric, Peter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/dotdotdash-issue-4-antimatter-launch-party/</link>
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		<title>English</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'verbumlogos', June 30th 2010]: Most of the mainline reviews of Robert McCrum’s Globish – of which there have been so many so fast that I am in awe of his publicity people &#8212; are missing what is fundamentally wrong with the book. Herewith one linguist’s take on this peculiar book, within which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slammed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'New York Daily Photo', June 30th 2010]: Many will extol the benefits of spending the summer in the city. They will tell you of all the wonderful events, many free, how much less crowded things are, and how tickets for events are more easily available since many New Yorkers are away. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Itstorm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Me fail? I fly', June 30th 2010]: It’s a long time since the Art-Student and I have been to a Gleebooks event. Tonight we went to a discussion of a book (pic on the left leaves off the first two letters of its name) about Kevin Rudd’s handling of the Australian branch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book launch : Hobart Bookshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hobart Bookshop is pleased to invite you to the launch, by Sarah Day, of Ginny Jackson&#8217;s book The Still Deceived. Where: The Hobart Bookshop When: Thursday July 15th, 5:30pm All welcome to this free event.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/book-launch-hobart-bookshop-3/</link>
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		<title>10 questions on poets and technology &#8211; Dave Bonta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Very Like A Whale', June 29th 2010]: I use Facebook in my capacity as a literary magazine publisher, too. In fact, that’s really what drew me back to the site, after my initial disgusted attempt to quit. I like the way social networks like Facebook can put writers and editors on more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/10-questions-on-poets-and-technology-dave-bonta/</link>
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		<title>Doctor of Fantasy : Tansy Rayner Roberts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Paige Turner', June 16th 2010]: Last Tuesday Tansy Rayner Roberts came in to the studio. She is author of a number of books, most recently Power and Majesty which is the first of three in the Creature Court Series (Harper Voyager, 2010). Tansy is a Doctor of Classics, a mother, a prodigy, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/doctor-of-fantasy-tansy-rayner-roberts/</link>
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		<title>In love with Nathanial Hawthorne</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Stephanie Brown, from 'The Best American Poetry', June 29th 2010]: In college I developed a crush on Nathaniel Hawthorne. I not only liked his books, I liked his looks, too, at least as he appeared in a painting at the Essex Institute in Salem, Massachusetts. Nathaniel_Hawthorne I used to take regular sojourns to see it. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/in-love-with-nathanial-hawthorne/</link>
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		<title>The pejoration of &#8216;douchebag&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Throw Grammar from the Train', June 9th 2010]: For the past few years, I&#8217;ve been watching the steady progress of the insult douchebag, the latest reminder that our collective choice of language taboos is nothing if not arbitrary. Still, I was surprised when a good friend told me the other day that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-pejoration-of-douchebag/</link>
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		<title>Writing in/with silence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Adam in Cambodia', June 29th 2010]: I haven&#8217;t been reading much poetry lately, with the exception of Charles Reznikoff&#8217;s Testimony Volume 1: The United States (1885-1915) and published by New Directions in 1965, a book he wrote after reading endless court reports on crime. I have felt guilty, or at least irresponsible, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Graeme Calder on Hobart&#8217;s Edge Radio 6pm this evening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paige Turner&#8217;s interview with Graeme Calder will be played this evening (Tuesday 29th of June) on Edge Radio 99.3fm at 6pm on The Book Show. Or listen to the podcast here.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/graeme-calder-on-hobarts-edge-radio-6pm-this-evening/</link>
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		<title>When normally does not mean normally</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from The Economist's blog 'Johnson', June 28th 2010]: After a long struggle, French has more or less surrendered to English, here in the European Union quarter of Brussels. The reason is simple enough: enlargement of the EU, first to take in Sweden and Finland in 1995, and then the Big Bang enlargement of 2004 and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/wjen-normally-does-not-mean-normally/</link>
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		<title>The invention of poetry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Allen Bramhall, from his blog 'tributary', June 27th 2010]: Poetry was invented in the early 18th Century, somewhere in England. It is not known who invented poetry, though it is known that John Milton did NOT. William Shakespeare cannot receive credit for inventing poetry either, even though his stuff looks like poetry. Remain cautious when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-invention-of-poetry/</link>
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		<title>Graeme Calder at Fullers Bookshop, Hobart : 2pm today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Levee, Line and Martial Law : the story of the Mairremmener people, better known as the Oyster Bay Tribe and the Big River Tribe. Dr Calder traces their roots from prehistory, through the arrival of white people. Fullers Bookshop, Hobart Sunday 27th June 2pm]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/graeme-calder-at-fullers-bookshop-hobart-2pm-today/</link>
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		<title>Our Wastelands, by Greg Hewett</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Greg Blewett, from 'The Best American Poetry', June 26th 2010]: A couple of weeks ago the poet Ted Mathys gave a well received talk about ecocriticism and poetry at the Poet’s House. In one strand of his complex argument he implies that ecocriticism is not just interested in ecological imagery or subject matter. He examines [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/our-wastelands-by-greg-hewett/</link>
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		<title>The charismatic alphabet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from The Economist's blog 'Johnson', June 25th 2010]: What makes a nation adopt a new script? İlker Aytürk, a political scientist with a penchant for the history of language at Ankara&#8217;s Bilkent University, tackles this question in a new paper in the Journal of World History (abstract only). The answer, he concludes, is something he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-charismatic-alphabet/</link>
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		<title>Goodbye New Matilda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[James Bradley, from his blog 'City Of Tongues', June 25th 2010]: Six years ago, when it began, I was pretty dismissive of New Matilda. It wasn’t that I didn’t think there was a place for a left-of-centre online magazine, but the early issues always seemed depressingly worthy to me. Whether I’d make the same judgement [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/goodbye-new-matilda/</link>
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		<title>Summer reading: Marisa Silver on Richard Flanagan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Marisa Silver, Los Angeles Times, June 18th 2010]: We were in the Ecuadoran rain forest. This was a few years ago. We had flown from a town called Shell &#8212; named poetically for the oil company &#8212; deep into the heart of the forest on a tiny plane. My younger son held a crate of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/summer-reading-marisa-silver-on-richard-flanagan/</link>
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		<title>CK Stead settles dispute with Frame&#8217;s trust</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[nzherald, June 26th 2010]: Author Karl (CK) Stead has apologised for quoting without permission from Janet Frame&#8217;s work in his just-released memoir, even though he believes he was well within his rights to publish what he did. More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/ck-stead-settles-dispute-with-frames-trust/</link>
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		<title>The Kindness of Patrons [pdf download]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Australian Book Review seeks applications for the inaugural ABR Patrons’ Fellowship, a major new program as the magazine nears its fiftieth birthday in 2011. The Fellowship scheme is intended to reward outstanding Australian writers, to enhance ABR through the publication of major works of literary journalism, and to advance the magazine’s commitment to critical debates [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-kindness-of-patrons/</link>
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		<title>Martin Duwell in conversation with Jeffrey Poacher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Jacket 40, Late 2010]: Friends often ask why my reviews aren’t more evaluative. They see the central question that a critic faces as being: Is this any good? Or, where does this fit on some scale of quality? I’ve never thought this was a major question when it came to reading poetry, though I know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/martin-duwell-in-conversation-with-jeffrey-poacher/</link>
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		<title>‘The fights most worth having are the ones you won’t win’: The continuing debate on Australian literary reviewing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Gideon Haigh, 'Killings' June 23rd 2010]: The fact is that I am sympathetic to the lot of literary editors, whom I think are generally good people in fairly thankless jobs – because, alas, I can’t really imagine the scenario under which anyone would thank a literary editor. By the same token, while almost everything about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/%e2%80%98the-fights-most-worth-having-are-the-ones-you-won%e2%80%99t-win%e2%80%99-the-continuing-debate-on-australian-literary-reviewing/</link>
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		<title>Reading disorders : the man who mistook English for Phoenician</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from The Economist's blog 'Johnson', June 22nd 2010]: This week&#8217;s New Yorker contains a fascinating piece by Oliver Sacks on what happens when you lose the ability to read (link to summary). The condition, alexia, is usually the result of a stroke, but Dr Sacks describes how he himself suffered a temporary migrained-induced alexia while [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/reading-disorders-the-man-who-mistook-english-for-phoenician/</link>
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		<title>Stoicism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'verbumlogos', June 22nd 2010]: Ours is not a philosophical age, much less an age of Stoicism. As Frank McLynn explains in his new biography of Marcus Aurelius, the last of Rome&#8217;s &#8220;five good emperors,&#8221; commander of Rome&#8217;s prolonged campaigns against the invasions of barbarian German tribes, and the last important Stoic philosopher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thriller muscles in on Miles Franklin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Rosemary Neill, The Australian, June 23rd 2010]: Melbourne author Peter Temple last night became the first thriller writer to take out the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Accepting the $42,000 award among a who&#8217;s who of Australian publishing at a dinner at the State Library of NSW in Sydney, Temple said: &#8220;Shock is the word.&#8221; He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/thriller-muscles-in-on-miles-franklin/</link>
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		<title>My bad was his</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from The Economist's blog 'Johnson', June 21st 2010]: He may, it seems, have also given one of the sport&#8217;s most enduring bits of slang. An errant pass is often followed up with an acknowledgment to teammates: &#8220;my bad&#8221;, as in, &#8220;not your fault&#8221;. More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/my-bad-was-his/</link>
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		<title>Reading after hours with the 2010 judges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Booksellers, NZ, February 8th 2010]: CP: When I was invited to be a New Zealand Post Book Award judge, I was ecstatic – an official reason for indulging my favourite pastime! Of course I’ve had to rearrange some business activities, decline invitations, and ask my partner Tanya and visiting friends to help me with processing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/reading-after-hours-with-the-2010-judges/</link>
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		<title>Style guide entry of the week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[The Economist, June 21st 2010]: i. Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print ii. Never use a long word where a short one will do iii. If it is possible to cut out a word, always cut it out. iv. Never use the passive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/style-guide-entry-of-the-week/</link>
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		<title>Creeley&#8217;s &#8216;Contexts&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Isola di Rifiuti', June 21st 2010]: &#8216;The preoccupations here evident were, in fact, more decisive than I could then have realized. I had trusted so much to thinking, apparently, and had gained for myself such an adamant sense of what a poem could be for me, that here I must have been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/creeleys-contexts/</link>
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		<title>Neil Gaiman : the Prospect interview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Tom Chatfield, Prospect, June 14th 2010]: TC: And do you ever feel it’s a burden, blogging and so on, an unwelcome obligation? NG: I guess. I mean, I’m blogging less because I started feeling like I was repeating myself. When I started, everything was new, everything was fun and exciting, and then there came a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/neil-gaiman-the-prospect-interview/</link>
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		<title>Counter-Cultural Poetics: Ed Sanders and History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Robert Archambreau, from 'Samizdat Blog', June 19th 2010]: So what&#8217;s Sanders&#8217; game? I think, at some level too deep to have been a deliberate choice, he&#8217;s actually working in the tradition Wordsworth justified in the preface to Lyrical Ballads, and for much the same reason. Here&#8217;s the opening part of Wordsworth&#8217;s famous definition of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/counter-cultural-poetics-ed-sanders-and-history/</link>
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		<title>the joys of bookselling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Mary McCallum, from the blog 'O Audacious Book', June 18th 2010 - with a nod from Beattie's Book Blog]: * The man &#8211; all 6&#8217;4 of him &#8211; is standing beside me. &#8216;You recommended a book for my wife&#8230;&#8217; he waits and realises it needs more &#8216;&#8230; it was by a NZer&#8230;&#8217; pause &#8216;&#8230;.from Dunedin?&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-joys-of-bookselling/</link>
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		<title>Gerður Kristný :  Two poems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gerður Kristný Two poems Hole in the Ice Drift ice in your eyes hoarfrost in your heart your hands untamed sled dogs above us a moon poises amid stars target surrounded by holes made by darts that strayed Patriotic Poem The cold makes me a lair from fear places a pillow of downy drift under [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/ger%c3%b0ur-kristny-two-poems/</link>
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		<title>Libby Goodsir : Three poems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LIBBY GOODSIR Everywhere On sills, ledges, shelves there is a film of dust my mother called it the days falling through the air. What if…… In emptying the deer’s brown pond eyes, snagging the last gill breath, falling swift feathered flight …… we are plucking the heart from love. Who Knows I wonder will I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/libby-goodsir-three-poems/</link>
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		<title>Portugal: A Tribute in Unison to Nobel Prize Winner Jose Saramago</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Sara Moreira, from the blog 'Global Voices', June 18th 2010]: Today the Portuguese writer and only Portuguese language Nobel Prize Winner in Literature José Saramago died at age 87 in his residence in Lanzarote victim of old age and prolonged illness leaving us with a rich body of work of novels of philosophic reflection through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/portugal-a-tribute-in-unison-to-nobel-prize-winner-jose-saramago/</link>
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		<title>New News Conference seeking citizen journos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) and the Swinburne University Public Interest Journalism Foundation (PIJ) will partner in presenting a groundbreaking two day conference on the future of journalism on 2nd and 3rd September 2010. This conference will be about collaboration and creation, and about building new and creative relationships between newsmakers and audiences. This is an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/new-news-conference-seeking-citizen-journos/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s been a lot of fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[David Runciman, London Review of Books, June 2010]: For Schmitt, political romantics are driven not by the quest for pseudo-religious certainty, but by the search for excitement, for the romance of what he calls ‘the occasion’. They want something, anything, to happen, so that they can feel themselves to be at the heart of things. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/its-been-a-lot-of-fun/</link>
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		<title>Reading : &#8216;Town,&#8217; June 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Nicholas Loughlin, from 'CRB : The Caribbean Review of Books', June 17th 2010]: During the CRB’s break in publication last year, your Antilles blogger put his head together with two writer friends — Vahni Capildeo and Anu Lakhan — and started a modest little publishing project, the literary and art journal Town. More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/reading-town-june-2010/</link>
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		<title>Dickens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'verbumlogos', June 17th 2010]: The biographies of most writers tend to be fascinating up to the time their writing begins in earnest. Perhaps poets of short verse have the time to get up to drunken shenanigans and commit adultery in ways that might prove interesting to read about later, but novelists—especially novelists [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/dickens/</link>
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		<title>Michael Nardone : transcribing poetic dialogues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Lemon Hound', June 16th 2010]: &#8216;Via the satellites, I&#8217;ve been working under the direction of Al Filreis at the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania, transcribing some recent and classic dialogues on poetry and poetics that will eventually be published in Jacket magazine once the journal takes up its new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/michael-nardone-transcribing-poetic-dialogues/</link>
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		<title>Using Juxta in the Digital Variorum Edition of Ezra Pound’s Cantos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[by Mark Byron, University of Sydney]: &#8216;I am currently assembling the digital variorum edition of Ezra Pound’s Cantos with Richard Taylor. This edition aims to collate all published versions of every canto, including page proofs and setting copy, where available, and to integrate digital reproductions of illustrated capitals in deluxe editions, audio and video recordings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/using-juxta-in-the-digital-variorum-edition-of-ezra-pound%e2%80%99s-cantos/</link>
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		<title>The long decline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Andre Alexis, The Walrus, July/August issue ... as noted by Nicholas Laughlin at The Caribbean Review of Books]: Reviewing is, by its nature, the chronicle of a small community: writer, book, reader. It is, for the brief time it exists, a community of equals. A reader/reviewer who fails to appreciate or understand a book tends [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-long-decline/</link>
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		<title>WA literary journal indigo to shut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Katherine Fenech, Sydney Morning Herald, June 15th 2010]: A funding rejection for literary journal indigo, which exclusively publishes WA writers&#8217; work, means its final edition will be released in December. More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/wa-literary-journal-indigo-to-shut/</link>
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		<title>From Ang Mo Kio to &#8230; the world!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Tan May Lee, from the blog 'eric forbes’s book addict’s guide to good books', June 25th 2010]: You recently returned from the WordStorm festival. How did it go? It went very well. I gave three public readings and sat on a panel discussion at the Botanic Gardens in Darwin where WordStorm was held. I read [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/from-ang-mo-kio-to-the-world/</link>
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		<title>How to be critical</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Lisa Dempster, June 9th 2010]: “Journals like Meanjin and Quadrant have lost their cultural relevance, because they’re just so far up their own arse…” The founder of Ampersand, Alice Gage, said this a few nights ago at Creative Sydney. She was talking about why she started her own journal. Whether you agree with it or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/how-to-be-critical/</link>
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		<title>Self-publishing : doing it yourself and doing it better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Mark Medley, National Post, June 12th 2010]: Almond struck an agreement with the bookstore to print copies of This Won’t Take But A Minute, Honey for about $5 apiece, which he sells at readings for $10. It isn’t in bookstores: “I don’t want this book everywhere. I want it at readings that I do where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/self-publishing-doing-it-yourself-and-doing-it-better/</link>
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		<title>Does IMPAC have an impact?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Sinead Gleeson, Irish Times, June 12th 2010]: This week, the winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction was announced (Barbara Kingsolver’s The Lacuna). Every year, that prize spawns obligatory editorials about the inverse sexism of an all-female prize. Similarly, when the Man Booker shortlist is announced, there is hand-wringing about unjust omissions. Both prizes are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/does-impac-have-an-impact/</link>
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		<title>Bloomsday, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BLOOMSDAY, 2010 On Wednesday, 16th June, around midday and until 2, please join us at Collected Works Bookshop in Melbourne, for our annual Bloomsday celebration. For anyone who hasnt attended before, we simply read from the book, James Joyce&#8217;s Ulysses, in turn, around the room. We are mostly enthusiasts &#038; readers of Joyce. No special [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/bloomsday-2010/</link>
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		<title>A Touch of Frost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Burn Bright', June 13th 2010]: Zenobia Frost writes poetry in cemeteries, articles at a desk in a backyard rainforest, and to-do lists on receipts, bits of paper, the back of her hand, and flatmates’ spare bits of skin. She writes, edits, and types for a living, and occasionally orchestrates cabaret events that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/a-touch-of-frost/</link>
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		<title>Are poetry books extinct?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Georgia Richter, Fremantle Poetry Month, June 11th 2010]: The other day, I went on a tour of someone&#8217;s e-world. My companion was a young man literally half my age. Together we visited Facebook, MySpace, blogs, Twitter, fan fiction, Wetpaint, MSN, Yahoo, Bebo, YouTube and The Pirate Bay. This is his social world, the main medium [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/are-poetry-books-extinct/</link>
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		<title>Ask TPR : Assholedom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Lorin Stein, The Paris Review, June 11th 2010]: I am leaving my girlfriend and I keep trying to be “nice” about it, but I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s helping either of us. In fact, it&#8217;s just making this painful process take longer. I really need to be an asshole and steep myself in assholedom. Any suggestions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/ask-tpr-assholedom/</link>
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		<title>Love at the bar : witness protection. A review by Cathy Bray</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Cathy Bray, Poets Union Inc, June 4th 2010]: The poet Martin Langford (let’s call him ‘the selector’) researched and found about 40 Australian love poems for this season of Love at the Bar (mainly contemporary poems and 10 of the final 15, by women writers). “With both men and women exploring love in searching, risky [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/love-at-the-bar-witness-protection-a-review-by-cathy-bray/</link>
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		<title>A poet&#8217;s resurrection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Lorna Crozier, The Globe and Mail, June 11th 2010]: It was Sept. 24, 1975. The Ironworkers&#8217; Hall in Vancouver was packed with card-carrying union members who had come to hear four young poets. Three of them, David Day, Pete Trower and Patrick Lane, paced in the foyer. They could hear the impatience of the audience, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/a-poets-resurrection/</link>
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		<title>Authors clash over Booker favourite&#8217;s attack on &#8216;junk&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Bonnie Malkin, Telegraph, June 10th 2010]: Carey’s speech prompted rivals to brand him a self-important snob. Bryce Courtenay, the best-selling author of The Power Of One and The Potato Factory, labelled his comments &#8220;absolute bull&#8212;-&#8221;. &#8220;There’s the assumption that just because you’re a literary writer, therefore you are writing something of importance, of interest or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/authors-clash-over-booker-favourites-attack-on-junk/</link>
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		<title>Interview : Scott-Patrick Mitchell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Fremantle Poetry Month', June 11th 2010]: You won a prize in 2009 for your chapbook. How has the process of writing and publishing New Poets differed from writing a chapbook? To be honest they were both very similar. After months of rejection letters I figured that editors and journals probably weren’t getting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/interview-scott-patrick-mitchell/</link>
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		<title>A debt to Chaim Potok</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Robyn Bavati, Galus Australus, June 9th 2010]: When I was in my teens, the book industry in Australia wasn’t the thriving one it is today. Almost all the books I read were imports from England – even American books rarely made it to Australian shores. I grew up thinking that characters in books must live [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/a-debt-to-chaim-potok/</link>
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		<title>Review: &#8216;Camera Obscura&#8217; by Kathryn Lomer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Megan Burke, from her blog 'Literary Life', June 8th 2010]: Using a poet&#8217;s ear and a photographer&#8217;s eye, Kathryn Lomer infuses her writing with a distinctive irony and an intuitive understanding of the human experience. More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/review-camera-obscura-by-kathryn-lomer/</link>
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		<title>Open Page with David Musgrave</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from Australian Book Review, June 2010]: WHAT DO YOU THINK OF WRITERS’ FESTIVALS? A necessary evil. DO YOU FEEL ARTISTS ARE VALUED IN OUR SOCIETY? Yes and no: painters, some novelists, opera singers do all right – especially if they like the media – but poets seem to be regarded as escapees from a sheltered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/open-page-with-david-musgrave/</link>
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		<title>Catching up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Fieldnotes: Tasmania', June 2nd 2010]: What was that resolution I made to add a note to this blog once a week? It&#8217;s just over a month since my last posting, and in that time I&#8217;ve had lots of reason to think about Tasmania. I met Richard Lemm for coffee when he was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/catching-up/</link>
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		<title>Poetry workshop with Robyn Rowland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leadlight Room, Keatings Hotel, Woodend Saturday 12 June, 12.30 – 3.30 pm Full $45 / Conc $40 Only 20 places available BOOK TICKETS NOW here and here From brushfires, to bog fires, through the flame of the holy spirit to the pagan fires of solstice, fire has been both warm companion and feared and capricious [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/poetry-workshop-with-robyn-rowland/</link>
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		<title>The winter of a Hundred Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Brendan De Caires, Literary Review of Canada, April 29th 2010]: Last fall, before common sense or modesty could prevail, I agreed to act as a regional judge for the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize. This committed me to a conscientious sifting through of nearly one hundred novels and short story collections. For the next five months, my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-winter-of-a-hundred-books/</link>
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		<title>Peter Kennedy&#8217;s first year in exile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Peter Kirkwood, Eureka Street, May 7th 2010]: In the video, Kennedy refers to a book of essays recently published about him and his falling out with the Church. Called Peter Kennedy: the Man who Threatened Rome, it is no mere hagiography. While most writers — and it includes heavyweights like Paul Collins, Martin Flanagan, Hans [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/peter-kennedys-first-year-in-exile/</link>
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		<title>The future of poetry at Fremantle Press</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Georgia Richter, from the blog 'Fremantle Poetry Month', June 4th 2010]: When it comes to Western Australian poets, Fremantle Press has a stellar list, including John Kinsella, Tracy Ryan, Caroline Caddy, John Mateer and Phil Salom, to name a few. The launch of the Fremantle Poets series this year enables us to look to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-future-of-poetry-at-fremantle-press/</link>
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		<title>hot off the pressed wafer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Laurie Duggan, from his blog 'graveney marsh', June 4th 2010]: The idea was that we would get a handful of pieces which Scripsi (the literary magazine Michael co-edited with Peter Craven) would publish, but something else happened along the way. I recognised in the Edwardian prose versions a tone that I could identify with, realising [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/hot-off-the-pressed-wafer/</link>
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		<title>Poetry workshops with Les Wicks, Sydney</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PLAN TO BE PUBLISHED: two poetry workshops 5 &#038; 12 June with poet Les Wicks In Sydney at NSW Writers’ Centre Date(s): Saturdays 5 &#038; 12 June Workshop: PLAN TO BE PUBLISHED with Les Wicks Venue: at the NSW Writers’ Centre, Address: Callan Park (off Balmain/Lilyfield Road), Rozelle NSW 2039 Time: 10am – 4pm More [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/poetry-workshops-with-les-wicks-sydney/</link>
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		<title>Book Launch : Ann de Hugard, Castlemaine June 26th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ann de Hugard will have her collection of poetry launched at the Castlemaine Art Gallery on 26th June. Last year Ann was chosen as one of four Australian poets to be published by the Australian Poetry Centre for their New Poets series. As part of the project she spent a week last year at Varuna [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/book-launch-ann-de-hugard-castlemaine-june-26th/</link>
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		<title>Conversation with Jennifer Poulton</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from 'Susan Whitfield's Blog', June 2nd 2010]: What are your writing goals? To have books published around the world – stories and narrative poems that children will love &#8211; stories that will engage them and make them want to read, poems that will imbue in them a love for poetry and the rhythms of language, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/converstion-with-jennifer-poulton/</link>
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		<title>Poetry lives, OK?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Jaya Savige, The Australian, June 2nd 2010]: But poetry is of course the product of its specific cultural moment, however much some would like it to reflect the cultures of yesteryear. Only those poems that are truly of their time have any hope of lasting beyond it. All arguments to the contrary can&#8217;t help but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/poetry-lives-ok/</link>
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		<title>On the aesthetics of empathy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, April 2010]: For some reason, I don&#8217;t quite believe in literature being a cathartic healing wellspring; the raw process of writing, yes. To write well is one thing; to be an artist, a human being, is another. That is something about writing (or any artistic expression) that one can never [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/on-the-aesthetics-of-empathy/</link>
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		<title>Commentary : &#8216;Letters to an Unknown Friend&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Robert Dessaix, Australian Book Review, June 2010]: There is something, in our culture, of the country cousin (of good family,  mind, and well-spoken, but not quite first-nightat- the-opera) about the essay. All too often it’s thought of as a bit of harmless throat-clearing (smelling of dry almonds, according to one commentator) useful for filling in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/commentary-letters-to-an-unknown-friend/</link>
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		<title>Growing content</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[James Bradley, The Australian, December 2nd 2009]: But, all the same, one could be forgiven for thinking the future of traditional forums such as the literary magazine is bleak. If, as the magazines themselves would argue, their raison d&#8217;etre is the publication of new writing, how sustainable is that commitment in a world where writers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/growing-content/</link>
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		<title>Nadine Gordimer advocates book over screen for the imagination &#8211; and Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from 'The News By Me', May 31st 2010]: Asked to name her most significant authors, she emphasised Proust, whom she had read in English as a girl, later in French, and recently for a third time. &#8220;I realised in anguish there were some books I&#8217;d better reread before I die, so I decided to read [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/nadine-gordimer-advocates-book-over-screen-for-the-imagination-and-africa/</link>
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		<title>Australian writer passes away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Marc Espino, International Business Times, May 31st 2010]: Western Australian writer, Randolph Stow, author of The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea, died in England at the age of 74. Stow was recently diagnosed with liver cancer and died suddenly on Saturday in a hospital near his home in the Essex village of Old Harwich. More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/australian-writer-passes-away/</link>
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		<title>On teaching poetry to first-years, and other purgatorial endeavours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Christopher Lockett, from his blog 'An Ontarian in Newfoundland', May 23rd 2010]: To put it another way: Why study poetry? Because it is complex and subtle and nuanced, and offers multiple interpretations simultaneously. What literary study offers is not breadth, but depth. What it offers is an opportunity to pit your mind against some of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/on-teaching-poetry-to-first-years-and-other-purgatorial-endeavours/</link>
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		<title>Leaching off the art scene: Sam Leach and Hoax Nation [review]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from 'Kill Your Darlings', May 26th 2010]: Despite being revealed as a hoax, the Malley poems still resonate and have been taken up and creatively reused by Peter Carey in the novel My Life as a Fake, a series of poems by John Tranter, and paintings by Sidney Nolan and Albert Tucker – and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/leaching-off-the-art-scene-sam-leach-and-hoax-nation-review/</link>
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		<title>A few words on &#8216;Out of the Box&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Andy Quan, from the blog 'Oh Blogdammit!', May 22nd 2010]: I was about to say that there feels to me a non-specificity about many of the poems, as if the editorial choice was to go with queer sensibility rather than content, but I&#8217;m not sure if that&#8217;s true. I did remember feeling with a number [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/a-few-words-on-out-of-the-box/</link>
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		<title>Why do books of poetry matter?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Georgia Richter, from the blog 'Fremantle Poetry Month', May 29th 2010]: It seems to me that a book of poetry is still an important milestone in a poet’s career. Books allow ‘emerging’ poets to be formally introduced to the world. Subsequent books allow a showcase of the poet’s development across time. And selecteds and collecteds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/why-do-books-of-poetry-matter/</link>
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		<title>Byron Bay Writers Festival : The rare and endangered early bird</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Early Bird 3 day passes are on the endangered list! You have until midnight 3 June to make significant savings on your Festival pass, then wave goodbye as Early Birds disappear for 2010. As they wing away, the veil will lift to reveal the full Festival program. The bumper crop of writing workshops, lavish foodie [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/byron-bay-writers-festival-the-rare-and-endangered-early-bird/</link>
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		<title>Author interview : Kathryn Lomer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from Megan Burke's blog 'Literary Life', May 27th 2010]: Why did you pick for Tilda to save the elephant seals? Was this an attempt to be different from other YA&#8217;s? It began with me wondering who the person was who found the real mother seal in Dover a few years ago and what effect it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/author-interview-kathryn-lomer/</link>
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		<title>Molly&#8217;s Memory Jar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A jar of marbles and a lifetime of memories to match. Launch : Norma Spaulding&#8217;s Molly&#8217;s Memory Jar. Fullers Bookshop, Hobart 5:30 pm Wednesday 2nd June 2010]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/mollys-memory-jar/</link>
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		<title>Critic&#8217;s study reveals flaws and perfection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Peter Craven, The Australian, May 26th 2010]: When the young Frank Kermode was coming out of some club (the Garrick, perhaps) where he had lunched with poet Stephen Spender in the mid-1950s, a figure appeared in the smog of the late London afternoon swathed in a muffler that covered his mouth and most of his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/critics-study-reveals-flaws-and-perfection/</link>
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		<title>Talking Heads at Toxteth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Australian Writers Network takes pleasure in inviting you to TALKING HEADS AT TOXTETH with ROSS FITZGERALD in conversation with IRINA DUNN about his latest book &#8220;My Name is Ross: An Alcoholic&#8217;s Journey&#8221; Friday, 4 June, 2010 at 6 for 6.30 pm Upstairs function room of the Toxteth Hotel, 345 Glebe Point Road, Glebe From [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/talking-heads-at-toxteth/</link>
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		<title>Eve Masterman Poetry Prize [Hobart]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hobart Bookshop invites you to attend the presentation of the Eve Masterman Poetry Prize. Eve, who will be celebrating her 103rd birthday, will present the prize. When: Sunday June 6th, 2.30pm Where: The Hobart Bookshop All welcome to this free event. The Hobart Bookshop 22 Salamanca Square Hobart Tasmania 7000 P 03 6223 1803 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/eve-masterman-poetry-prize-hobart/</link>
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		<title>The Lithuanian Health Care system</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Steven Herrick, from his blog 'Poetry, football and travel', May 4th 2010]: Sometimes, when you&#8217;re travelling, things don&#8217;t go to plan. So, when a piece of dust blew in my eye on saturday instead of blinking rapidly and waiting for it to dislodge, I scraped and scratched with dirty fingernails and damaged my cornea. And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-lithuanian-health-care-system/</link>
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		<title>Letter from Pam Brown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends and poetry fans, I am in the midst of what in mediaspeak is called a year of ‘downtime’and because of this unexpected circumstance I am writing to let you know that, unusually, there will be no book launch party for my new collection of poems, &#8216;Authentic Local&#8217;. The adventurous independent publisher, Papertiger Media, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/letter-from-pam-brown/</link>
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		<title>Alan Sillitoe obituary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Richard Bradford, The Guardian, April 25th 2010]: Alan Sillitoe, who has died of cancer aged 82, was one of the most important British writers of the postwar era. He made his name with the novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) and the collection of short stories The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1959), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/alan-sillitoe-obituary/</link>
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		<title>Net means end of the world as we know it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Eleanor Hall, 'ABC : The World Today', May 18th 2010]: ELEANOR HALL: To that warning about the perils of the internet. John Freeman is the editor of the British literary magazine, Granta, and his first book Shrinking the World reviews thousands of years of human communication and comes to the conclusion that email is ruining [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/net-means-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/</link>
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		<title>Performance poets on stage for the Sydney Writers&#8217; Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[ABC, May 23rd 2010]: Texts were shelved and the literary discussion hushed as the spoken-word took it&#8217;s turn on stage at the Sydney Writers Festival. More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/performance-poets-on-stage-for-the-sydney-writers-festival/</link>
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		<title>The White stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Peter Craven, ABC, May 21st 2010]: So we finally have a result for the Lost Booker, the one that fell between the cracks in 1970. It didn&#8217;t go to Patrick White for The Vivisector or Muriel Spark for The Driver&#8217;s Seat but to J.G. Farrell, that ruminative chronicler of the crack ups of the British [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-white-stuff/</link>
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		<title>Revolution in Lebanese literature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Helen Pitt, Sydney Morning Herald, May 22nd 2010]: The mother of Hanan al-Shaykh, one of the Arab world&#8217;s most acclaimed authors, was illiterate; sold by her father at the age of nine, married to a man three times her age at 14. Yesterday the London-based Lebanese author, best known for her fictional works, spoke about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/revolution-in-lebanese-literature/</link>
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		<title>Book launch, Castlemaine : Sunday May 23rd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nathan Curnow, recently announced winner of the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize, will launch Ross Gillett&#8217;s chapbook, Wundawax (Mark Time Books) during Ross&#8217;s feature at the Guildford Hotel this Sunday May 23 when he appears with Zenobia Frost (Qld) at this premier reading for poetry, the best this side of Latrobe Street and just a line [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/book-launch-castlemaine-sunday-may-23rd/</link>
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		<title>Black Coffee : Fullers Bookshop, Hobart &#8211; Mon 24th May</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Meet Hercule Poirot and the Hobart Repertory Theatre Society’s cast of &#8216;Black Coffee&#8217;, a thrilling play by Agathie Christie. Director Ingrid Ganley will speak about the queen of whodunnits and the murder-mystery genre, the cast will perform some small extracts from the production and Poirot will autograph copies of Agatha Christie novels, and well, anything [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/black-coffee-fullers-bookshop-hobart-mon-24th-may/</link>
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		<title>Poems to Share Event : Friday May 21st</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You are warmly invited to celebrate seven years of The Red Room Company and contemporary Australian Poetry at the 2010 Sydney Writers&#8217; Festival. Eleven prominent Australian Poets will gather for one night only to read their works, share stories about poetry and their adventures with The Red Room Company. Participating poets all feature in &#8216;Poems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/poems-to-share-event-friday-may-21st/</link>
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		<title>In the Moment: Poetry with Thom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Rosemary Nissen-Wade, from her blog 'SnakyPoet', May 19th 2010]: I’ve known Thom since he was Tom the Street Poet in Melbourne, handing out flyers of poetry — his own and other people’s — on street corners. He was also Dial-a-Poet; people could phone his number and he’d create lines of poetry for them on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/in-the-moment-poetry-with-thom/</link>
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		<title>How English erased its roots to become the global tongue of the 21st century</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Robert McCrum, The Guardian Observer, May 9th 2010]: There is also the demotic energy of English in, for instance, contemporary Los Angeles, which is both the multicultural capital of Hispanic California and simultaneously the headquarters of a global movie business, the American dream factory. Cross the Pacific and the perspective changes again. There, you will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/how-english-erased-its-roots-to-become-the-global-tongue-of-the-21st-century/</link>
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		<title>Sydney Writers Festival launched tonight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Southern Courier, May 18th 2010]: Australia’s premier literary event and the third largest annual event of its kind in the world – the Sydney Writers’ Festival – will be officially opened tonight. More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/sydney-writers-festival-launched-tonight/</link>
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		<title>Melbourne poet&#8217;s sonnet trove wins NSW award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Jason Steger, Sydney Morning Herald, May 18th 2010]: It was an absence that prompted Jordie Albiston to write The Sonnet According to M: she could not find a book of sonnets that had been produced by an Australian poet &#8211; plenty of individual sonnets and the odd sequence but no entire collection. &#8221;I was interested [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/melbourne-poets-sonnet-trove-wins-nsw-award/</link>
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		<title>Prize-winning children&#8217;s storyteller</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Maurice Saxby, The Age, May 18th 2010]: In the face of some unwise criticism over her use of Aboriginal motifs, the Aboriginal poet, Jack Davis, rose to his feet at a literary conference and in ringing tones urged the author: &#8221;Be brave Mrs Wrightson, be brave.&#8221; It was not that Wrightson annexed Aboriginality for literary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/prize-winning-childrens-storyteller/</link>
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		<title>Book launch, Hobart Bookshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hobart Bookshop is pleased to invite you to the launch, by Craig Wellington, of Tansy Rayner Roberts&#8217;s new book Power and Majesty. Thursday June 3rd, 5.30pm 22 Salamanca Square All welcome to this free event. The Hobart Bookshop 22 Salamanca Square Hobart Tasmania 7000 P 03 6223 1803 . F 03 6223 1804 hobooks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/book-launch-hobart-bookshop-2/</link>
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		<title>Exiled debunker of a dangerous mythology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Miriam Cosic, The Australian, May 15th 2010]: &#8220;As a writer, I&#8217;m always afraid of monologue, of totalitarian speech, of the author who knows everything,&#8221; she says. &#8220;You can break that with humour. That&#8217;s why humour is irreplaceable. It&#8217;s like love, you can&#8217;t fake it.&#8221; More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/exiled-debunker-of-a-dangerous-mythology/</link>
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		<title>Gillard delivers curriculum to build &#8216;one nation&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Scott Hannaford, The Canberra Times, May 15th 2010]: Senior school students will be given the option to study texts ranging from Kant to The Castle and environmental science will be elevated to a similar status as physics and chemistry under the Year 11 and 12 draft national curriculum, issued yesterday. More &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/gillard-delivers-curriculum-to-build-one-nation/</link>
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		<title>Creeley on prosody and pacing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Al Filreis', May 7th, 2010]: I guess the second question is: what was it like when you got rid of the typewriter? CREELEY: Well the typewriter, initially, was a great way of freeing oneself from the personalism of one’s own handwriting. I was distracted by the way I wrote. Not that I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/creeley-on-prosody-and-pacing/</link>
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		<title>Launceston : May Poetry Pedlars &#8211; Monday 17th @ 7:30pm &#8211; Royal Oak upstairs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The May edition will be on at the usual venue @ 7:30pm sharp &#8211; we have a special guest who will provide some TPF 2010 inspiration! The topic is&#8230;complete a poem with this first line: &#8216;Can I stow away in your suitcase&#8230;&#8217; Hope to see you all there! Regards, steve dAvis]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/launceston-may-poetry-pedlars-monday-17th-730pm-royal-oak-upstairs/</link>
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		<title>Focus : B N Oakman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from IP News 46] There&#8217;s a strong political dimension in much of your poetry. Do you feel audiences still look to poets for political insights? Probably not. Politics flourishes in all forms of human activity. Even those who fail to see it or choose to ignore it are making de facto political statements. I look [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/focus-b-n-oakman/</link>
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		<title>What Now, Tilda B?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Erin Wamala, from the blog 'Never Enough Book Shelves', May 12th, 2010]: While a lot of ground is covered here, Kathryn Lomer does so with a light touch and the issues never feel heavy handed. She also evokes a beautiful sense of place, the beach and the forest, while also exploring the claustrophobia of living [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/wht-now-tilda-b/</link>
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		<title>A review of the recent Australian poetry anthologies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Kris Hemensley, from his blog 'poetry &#038; ideas', referred from 'Ruby Street': May 2nd, 2020]: I&#8217;ve been sitting on what I intended to be a review of the recent swag of Australian poetry anthologies for two months or so! I&#8217;ve accumulated notes, discussed the topic with fellow poets &#038; readers (including a frolic on Facebook), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/a-review-of-the-recent-australian-poetry-anthologies/</link>
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		<title>Talking in Tasmania</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Sharyn Munro, from her blog 'The woman on the mountain'] I’m in Tasmania (my first visit) and I’ll be giving a talk — introduced by Dr Peter Hay — at the Hobart Bookshop, 22 Salamanca Square, Hobart, on Thursday 13th May at 5:30pm.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/talking-in-tasmania/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;True Thoughts&#8217; : Pam Brown, Salt Publishing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Ken Bolton, from 'Linked Deletions', April 10th 2010]: For some time Brown’s poems have had their connective tissue, so to speak, much reduced: there is not any padding and the segue or bridging between parts is minimal or non-existent. We experience these poems, typically, as a sequence of mini vignettes, a succession of details, observations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/3315/</link>
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		<title>Angry consolations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[David Lumsden, from the blog 'Sparks From Stones', May 10th 2010]: And here lies the connection with Difficulty &#8211; works which do not surrender themselves to mere delectation. Hill has written &#8220;I have no ambition to be famously &#8211; or notoriously &#8211; obscure. The difficulties of daily living get in the way and my poems, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/angry-consolations/</link>
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		<title>Cambridge poetry and political ambition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Robert Archambeau, 'samizdat blog', May 10th 2010]: Anyway: this isn&#8217;t to say that poetry can&#8217;t aim at politics, express political viewpoints, or have the kind of small-scale impact that many other kinds of actions (teaching a history class, writing an article on sociology, attending a rally, talking to your friends, ranting in your blog) can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/cambridge-poetry-and-political-ambition/</link>
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		<title>Reading between the whines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Helen Pitt, Sydney Morning Herald, May 10th 2010]: So why are their books so popular? &#8220;Because our books are easy to read,&#8221; Morrissey says. &#8220;However, this is considered by some to be less worthy than creating dense, hard-to-read books that no one reads.&#8221; She reminds publishers that if it weren&#8217;t for the income of popular [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/reading-between-the-whines/</link>
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		<title>Bloggers unplugged</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Nigel Featherstone, from the blog 'Under the counter or a flutter in the dovecot', April 13th 2010]: Is there a difference between writing for a blog and writing ‘serious’ fiction? As I’ve rather painfully discovered, it is all too easy for a blogger to just spray the words up on the screen and see what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/bloggers-unplugged/</link>
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		<title>Why I write autobiography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[From the blog 'Sixth In Line', April 17th, 2010]: The next accusation to be leveled at the autobiographer involves that of narcissism. What makes you think your life is so interesting that anyone else would want to read about it? Who do you think you are? You do not hear such arguments leveled against artists [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/why-i-write-autobiography/</link>
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		<title>Vale Peter Porter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[James Bradley, from the blog 'city of tongues', April 25th 2010]: I came to Porter’s actual writing relatively late; other than odd poems in anthologies I’d read almost nothing of his until 2001, when I bought a copy of Max is Missing. As you get older those moments when you realise you’ve discovered a major [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/vale-peter-porter/</link>
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