Leah Swann’s book Bearings is an intense collection of stories with well-formed characters and a distinct voice. The subjects vary but all examine similar conundrums about the human condition, writes Rachel Edwards.
To mark the fifth day of National Poetry Week W H Chong ruminates on Peter Porter's The Exequy, which was gracefully written in classic lambic tetrameter.
This week the 2011 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards took place in Melbourne's spiffy Regent Theatre. Crikey book blogger Angela Meyer was there, listening to speeches, sipping champagne and wine and chowing down on fancy food.
For day three of National Poetry Week, W H Chong dug up and reread Judith Beveridge's spectacular Wolf Notes. Centering its three sections is a suite of 38 poems.
In celebration of National Poetry Week, W H Chong presents a five-poem sandwich, one for each day of the working week. Day one is John Tranter's Lufthansa.
Confused by what 'ambitious' means in a literary book review? It just means the reviewer didn't finish the book, says Eric Jett and Alex Shephard, as they dispel the most common clichés from the literary reviewing world.
While not every hatchet job might attract a libel suit, it’s still lazy reviewing.
In 2009, the number of Australian bookshops stood at around 2270. Following the REDgroup administration, and other shop openings and closures, we know that this figure is now around the 2000 mark. Some suburbs and towns are now without a dedicated bookshop, writes Bookseller + Publisher's Elly Keating.
Many book lovers might choose to shop locally rather than on overseas websites if they had the chance to ponder some of the implications of their decisions, says editor-in-chief of Bookseller+Publisher magazine Matthia Dempsey.
The latest book in Angela Meyer's project to read 20 classic, modern-classic or cult books in 2011 was The Sea, The Sea, by Iris Murdoch, a much admired and prolific author.
