Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Green Shadows : Venturing into Gerald Murnane’s Plains
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'I have been delivered of my books.'

These words hang in the air as Gerald Murnane confirms his retirement during a rare address to around thirty academics, writers, publishers and fans at the Goroke Golf Club. The one-day symposium, 'Another World in This One : Gerald Murnane's Fiction, is part of the Western Sydney University's 'Other Worlds: Forms of World Literature' project. On first glance it is a curious connection: how can the life work of an author who has rarely left the small pockets of Victoria, suburban Melbourne and a few regional villages and towns that he has called home for eighty years inform us about a literature of the 'world'?' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Westerly vol. 63 no. 1 2018 14203538 2018 periodical issue

    Presents work from the 2017 Writers' Development Program, supported by the Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund. 

    2018
    pg. 39-47
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  • The Plains Gerald Murnane , 1982 single work novel
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