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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Australian Book Review is delighted to announce the twelve poets selected for the 2026 Peter Porter Poetry Prize longlist. The shortlist will be announced on 30 December 2025. Keep an eye on our website for more details! #peterporterpoetryprize #AustralianBookReview #poetrylovers #poetryprize

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

The 2026 Calibre Essay Prize is now open.

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Read 'Land rights interrupted? How Whitlam’s dismissal changed the history of First Nations land repossession' by Heidi Norman and Francis Markham on the ABR website.

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

This week on The ABR Podcast we feature Tara Sharman’s short story ‘Shelling’, which won the 2025 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. www.australianbookreview.com.au/podcast/760-...

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

This week on the ABR Podcast, Lynda Ng reviews To Save and To Destroy: Writing as an Other by @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social. ‘Other Orientalisms: Refusing to be spectacle’ by @lyndang.bsky.social | @harvardpress.bsky.social www.australianbookreview.com.au/podcast/760-...

‘Other Orientalisms: Refusing to be spectacle’ by Lynda Ng | The ABR Podcast #245

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

‘Evans’s Romeo & Juliet reminds us of the time and love required to craft live art, and of the art of living in real time.’ ‘Romeo & Juliet: A production that winks at Petrarchan courtly love conventions’ by Kate Flaherty www.australianbookreview.com.au/arts-update/...

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Read the September issue of Australian Book Review, available now. www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c...

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

‘Miles Franklin Undercover does not have the weight of Roe’s biography, nor the lyricism of Salonika Burning. It is, instead, a slice of Franklin’s life ..’ Lucy Sussex reviews ‘Miles Franklin Undercover’ by Kerrie Davies | @allenandunwin.bsky.social www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c...

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

‘Our New Gods is gripping and without tenderness ... It is a glimpse into the human heart, which finds something cold and unpleasant lurking inside.’ Jonathan Ricketson reviews ‘Our New Gods’ by Thomas Vowles www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c...

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

‘The Southern Frontier brings a fascinating new perspective to a topic that is likely to become increasingly important as geopolitical and environmental threats to Antarctica mount.’ Elizabeth Leane reviews ‘The Southern Frontier’ by Rohan Howitt www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c...

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

‘For Levy’s devotees, The Position of Spoons will be another encounter with her stylistic eccentricities and humorous mode of looking at the world.’ Beth Kearney reviews ‘The Position of Spoons’ by Deborah Levy | penguinbooksusa.bsky.social www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c...

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

ABR is delighted to announce the appointment of Ben Brooker as its inaugural Arts Editor.

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

ABR is delighted to announce the appointment of Felicity Plunkett as its new Poetry Editor.

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

‘The Name of the Sister seems laden with meaning and import but I struggled to work out what these were and how they might fit together.’ Maggie Nolan reviews ‘The Name of the Sister’ by Gail Jones | @textpublishing.bsky.social www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c...

Maggie Nolan reviews ‘The Name of the Sister’ by Gail Jones

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

‘After a couple of rocky years featuring several less than stellar productions, the seemingly assured success of Carmen and Rusalka suggests that Opera Australia is on the right path.’ ‘Rusalka: Opera Australia on the right path with Dvořák’s watery opera’ by Michael Halliwell

‘Rusalka: Opera Australia on the right path with Dvořák’s watery opera’ by Michael Halliwell

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

‘Hamersley Iron’s workforce went from total collective bargaining in 1992 to ninety per cent individual contract coverage ... Striking Ore illuminates what has been lost through that transformation.’ Joshua Black reviews ‘Striking Ore’ by Alexis Vassiley

Joshua Black reviews ‘Striking Ore: The rise and fall of union power in the Pilbara’ by Alexis Vassiley

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

This week on the ABR Podcast we feature Robin Boord’s essay ‘Consolation of Clouds’, which was placed third in the 2025 Calibre Essay Prize. www.australianbookreview.com.au/podcast/760-...

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Australian Book Review is delighted to announce that the 2026 Peter Porter Poetry Prize is now open for entries. The prize, worth a total of $10,000, will be judged Judith Bishop, Felicity Plunkett, and Anders Villani. www.australianbookreview.com.au/prizes-progr...

Now Open! The 2026 Peter Porter Poetry Prize - Worth $10,000.

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

‘Motherhood is, Vogel insinuates in Mother Play, both play and performance.’ ‘Mother Play: A play in five evictions: Paula Vogel’s take on motherhood and memory’ by Diane Stubbings www.australianbookreview.com.au/arts-update/...

‘Mother Play: A play in five evictions: Paula Vogel’s take on motherhood and memory’ by Diane Stubbings

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

‘It is, however, the confounding structure that turns out to be the twist in Carbon, the book.’ Dave Witty reviews ‘Carbon: The book of life’ by Paul Hawken | @textpublishing.bsky.social www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c...

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

This week on the ABR podcast we feature Shan Windscript’s review of ‘Bombard the Headquarters!’ by Linda Jaivin. www.australianbookreview.com.au/podcast/760-...

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

‘Landfall is climate fiction of an Australia still to come, but it is also one that is very much about our present moment, and our harrowing, frequently unaddressed past.’ Adam Rivett reviews ‘Landfall’ by James Bradley | @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social

Adam Rivett reviews ‘Landfall’ by James Bradley

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

‘Together, they provide a rich entry point into contemporary Spanish and Indigenous language cinema, balancing crowd-pleasing drama with subtle, art-house storytelling.’ EL 47 and Through Rocks and Clouds: The Spanish Film Festival offers two tales of struggle by Angela Viora

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

‘The work ... draws attention to the inherent artificiality of the art form while addressing our cultural fixation with beauty and desirability.’ ‘Aphrodite: Sydney Chamber Opera’s modern take on the goddess of love’ by Michael Halliwell

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

‘The underlying calculus of fate and sacrifice remains mysterious, unknowable, resistant to simplification.’ Kirsten Tranter reviews ‘Everything Lost, Everything Found’ by Matthew Hooton | @harpercollins.bsky.social

Kirsten Tranter reviews ‘Everything Lost, Everything Found’ by Matthew Hooton

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

‘The result is a book that may lack the typical narrative of the hero’s journey expected of a political memoir, but which is, as a result, infinitely more illuminating about the workings of parliament ...’ Emma Dawson reviews ‘Making Progress’ by Jenny Macklin | @mupublishing.bsky.social

Emma Dawson reviews ‘Making Progress’ by Jenny Macklin with Joel Deane

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

This week on the ABR podcast we feature André Dao’s review of The Shortest History of AI by Toby Walsh. www.australianbookreview.com.au/podcast/760-...

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

‘Stavanger’s poetry is both pithy and undercutting, anathematic and loving, political and personal–and often, as is the case with such duplicitous poetry, these themes express themselves simultaneously, almost co-dependently.’ Will Hunt reviews ‘The Drop Off’ by David Stavanger

Will Hunt reviews ‘The Drop Off’ by David Stavanger

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Read the May 2025 issue, out now: www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c...

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

In ABR's April issue, senior contributors write on the federal election and Opera Australia's future. ABR reports from Tbilisi, on cancel culture, the Pope’s memoir, and reviews work by Geraldine Brooks, Santilla Chingaipe, Martha C. Nussbaum, Laila Lalami, Caro Llewellyn, Kevin Brophy and more.

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

This week on The ABR Podcast we have a special feature. With Peter Rose's publication this month of his seventh poetry collection, Attention, Please!, eighteen poets and critics read from Peter Rose’s extensive body of work, dating back to 1990.

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Out now: ABR March issue! We review books on Ronald Reagan, Angela Merkel, Boris Johnson, Joan Lindsay and Fred Williams. There is Ebony Nilsson on Menzies letters, Andrea Goldsmith on ‘unread books’, reviews of Fredric Jameson, Colm Tóibín, Eileen Chong, Olga Tokarczuk and more!

Australian Book Review's March 2025 cover, featuring Fred Williams's You Yang Ponds, courtesy of Lyn Williams and AGSA

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