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BOOK LAUNCH EVENT: How to Dress for Old Age — Readings Books — 18 Feb
BOOK LAUNCH EVENT: How to Dress for Old Age — Readings Books — 18 Feb
We are delighted to host the launch of David Carlin and Peta Murray's memoir, How to Dress for Old Age. This book is a work of love and reckoning, as Frank and Joan's adult children take up the labour of care for absent fathers and stoic mothers, while contemplating their…
BOOK LAUNCH EVENT: How to Dress for Old Age - Better Read Than Dead - 26 Feb
BOOK LAUNCH EVENT: How to Dress for Old Age - Better Read Than Dead - 26 Feb
Join us with David Carlin and Peta Murray to celebrate the release of How to Dress for Old Age! David and Peta will be in-conversation with Catherine McKinnon, with an introduction from Kathryn Millard.
Six Days, Amanda Curtin - Sneak Peek Video
Six Days, Amanda Curtin - Sneak Peek Video
SIX DAYS, a novel by Amanda Curtin (Upswell Publishing), release date 3 August 2026www.amandacurtin.comMusic: Dan Morrissey, licensed from SoundDogsImages: i...
Perth Festival 2026 - Birrundudu Drawings Exhibition
Perth Festival 2026 - Birrundudu Drawings Exhibition
In the 1940s, Aboriginal men at Birrundudu Station created 810 crayon drawings – vivid records of Country, ancestry and ceremony. Now over 100 never-before-seen works are revealed in an exhibition marking the 50th anniversary of the Berndt Museum.
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Book Review: Birrundudu Drawings » Aboriginal Art Directory
Book Review: Birrundudu Drawings » Aboriginal Art Directory
One of the most exciting and challenging of the many First Nations books on art or culture that have come my way has been intriguing me for days as I tracked the mystery of the stories behind the creation and rediscovery of the Birrundudu Drawings. How could 810 drawings by 16 Aboriginal men over three intense
Book review: Silence is my Habitat - InReview | InDaily, Inside South Australia
Book review: Silence is my Habitat - InReview | InDaily, Inside South Australia
In a deeply thoughtful, personal and cultural account of being deaf – and of being a deaf writer – Jessica White’s Silence is my Habitat adds to the shelves yet another impressive work in the field of deafness and disability, while making room for a new one: the ecobiographical essay.
A review of The Drop Off by David Stavanger – Compulsive Reader
A review of The Drop Off by David Stavanger – Compulsive Reader
ABC listen: Insights into the Australian Legal System with John McKechnie
ABC listen: Insights into the Australian Legal System with John McKechnie
Nightlife gets a real behind-the-scenes insight into the Australian legal scene.
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Living Arts Canberra PODCAST: Anne-Marie Condé
Living Arts Canberra PODCAST: Anne-Marie Condé
Upswell Publishing, Australia 2025 Cover design Chil3. Fremantle Cover image Edward Condé Reading Anne-Marie Condé’s collection of essays is like picking one’s way through a fabulously quirky broca…
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BOOK REVIEW The Saturday paper: The Drop Off, David Stavanger
BOOK REVIEW The Saturday paper: The Drop Off, David Stavanger
I have always supposed that much, if not most, contemporary poetry is nonfiction, that you are eavesdropping on a life being lived and understood in increments. But I have sometimes winced at what seemed to be unfair dealing or an imbalance of power between the writer and the subject. This didn’t happen in David Stavanger’s collection The Drop Off.
Australian Book Review: The Drop Off, David Stavanger
Australian Book Review: The Drop Off, David Stavanger
David Stavanger’s third collection of poetry, The Drop Off, disintegrates binaries and social expectations with post-structuralist fervour, occupying and exploring the liminal space of broken families, neo-liberal cultures, mental health and, of course, language. 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.
Griffith Review Article 'The Marketing is still Crap' - Terri-ann White
Griffith Review Article 'The Marketing is still Crap' - Terri-ann White
Publishing, as an industry, is still making money, but the range and variety of its output is suffering with its ongoing commodification. Upswell’s Terri-ann White takes a look at the contemporary book publishing scene.
BOOK REVIEW Clem Larkins: The prime minister’s potato and other essays - Anne-Marie Condé
BOOK REVIEW Clem Larkins: The prime minister’s potato and other essays - Anne-Marie Condé
2025 Catalogue of Books
2025 Catalogue of Books
ABC listen: Conversation with author Loribelle Spirovski
ABC listen: Conversation with author Loribelle Spirovski
2025 NSW Literary Award SHORTLIST - Judges Comments - Bullet Paper Rock, Abbas El-Zein
2025 NSW Literary Award SHORTLIST - Judges Comments - Bullet Paper Rock, Abbas El-Zein
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2025 NSW Literary Award SHORTLIST - Judges Comments - Excitable Boy, Dominic Gordon
2025 NSW Literary Award SHORTLIST - Judges Comments - Excitable Boy, Dominic Gordon
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