Cirrus@Austlit

'The article focuses on the Palm Island mission in Queensland. It mentions the initiative taken by Jessie Lloyd, musician and creator of the Mission Songs Project, to revive contemporary Indigenous songs from 1900 to 1999. It also presents the views of Marcia Langton, an adviser to the project, regarding the same.'  (Publication abstract)

'The article reviews the painting exhibition "TarraWarra International" to be held at TarraWarra Museum of Art in Healesville, Victoria until November 12, 2017 and mentions that it features painting work of Australian painter Jeffrey Smart.' (Publication abstract)

'It’s 3 am. “An hour usually reserved for pissing with your eyes closed,” Kate McLennan says in a sparkly voice while sitting bolt upright in bed next to co-host Kate McCartney. Time to Get Krack!n. Cue the buzzy theme music (think kazoo crossed with a mosquito) and a TV montage of the Kates “kidding around” in stilettos, skin-tone stockings, and boxy block-coloured mini dresses. Measly clapping starts up off-camera and the Kates step out, as if for the first time, onto the set of their very own morning show.' (Introduction)

'In this article, the author shares his experiences of reading poems of poet Luke Morcom such as "My Loving Wife" and mentions that his friend sent this poem through email.'  (Publication abstract)

'No one has written better than Henry James about the vocation o: writing, its isolate ecstasies and public humiliations, and the implacable demands it places upon those who devote their lives to its practice. Take the 1888 novella The Lesson of the Master, in which a tyro scribe enters the circle o: Henry St George, a literary eminence now past his prime. In a series of conversations, the senior writer tutors the junior in the inescapable trade-off literature will require of him. It seems he must choose between the lone.y perfection of art and the disabling entanglements of marriage and children.' (Introduction)

'Unless you’re Henry James you need a particular confidence to create an adult work with a child narrator. Sofie Laguna is something of a specialist in this area. The Eye of the Sheep, winner of the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award, was narrated by an unusual little boy called Jimmy finding his way through a precarious life. The Choke features a young narrator called Justine finding her way past an inheritance of brutality and loss.' (Introduction)