James Antoniou James Antoniou i(18223101 works by)
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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1 Blurring the Lines : Three New Poetry Collections James Antoniou , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 432 2021; (p. 55-56)

— Review of Unanimal, Counterfeit, Scurrilous Mark Anthony Cayanan , 2021 selected work poetry ; Errant Night Jerzy Beaumont , 2021 selected work poetry ; I Said the Sea Was Folded : Love Poems Erik Jensen , 2021 selected work poetry
1 Teeming Leeches : The Perils of Experimentalism James Antoniou , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 431 2021; (p. 45-46)

— Review of Dizzy Limits : Recent Experiments in Australian Nonfiction 2020 anthology prose

'‘Experimental writing’ can sometimes seem like a wastebasket diagnosis for any text that defies categorisation. Even when used precisely, it begs certain questions. Isn’t all creative writing ‘experimental’ to some degree? Isn’t the trick to conceal the experimentation? And what relationship does it bear to the ‘avant-garde’? If avant-gardism implies a radical philosophy of art, where does ‘experimentalism’ fit today? Is it not part of the valorisation of novelty, of innovation for innovation’s sake, which has gripped the literary establishment in recent decades? (When books like Milkman [2018] and Ducks, Newburyport [2019] fall victim to the cosiest of literary prizes, where have the real radicals gone?)' (Introduction)

1 The Poetic Promise Shown in Writing that is Personal and Powerful James Antoniou , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 10 July 2020;

— Review of Turbulence Thuy On , 2020 selected work poetry ; Of Memory and Furniture Bron Bateman , 2020 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Hedgehog Heart James Antoniou , Nikki Slade Robinson (illustrator), New Zealand : David Ling Publishing , 2020 21168390 2020 single work picture book children's

'What sort of heart do you have? Love shows itself in many different ways and while we usually know the sort of heart someone has, sometimes it's a little hard to tell Hedgehog Heart is a joyful celebration of love and friendship.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Romance, Crime, and Pets : Three Poetry Collections James Antoniou , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 426 2020; (p. 55-56)

— Review of The Alpaca Cantos Jenny Blackford , 2020 selected work poetry ; Anh and Lucien Tony Page , 2020 single work poetry prose ; Scratchland Noëlle Janaczewska , 2020 selected work poetry
1 Strange Brew : An Odd Novel about World War II James Antoniou , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 425 2020; (p. 26)

— Review of The Tolstoy Estate Steven Conte , 2020 single work novel
'During Operation Barbarossa in 1941, the Germans occupied Yasnaya Polyana – the former estate of Leo Tolstoy – for just forty-five days and converted it into a field hospital. The episode features in the war reportage of Ève Curie (daughter of Marie), and sounds like tantalising, if challenging, source material for a novelist. There’s the brutal irony inherent in the home of a world-famous prophet of non-violence being occupied by, of all people, the Nazis. There’s the human loss and horror of the deadliest military operation in the deadliest war in history. And there’s audacity in invoking and responding to Tolstoy’s great epic of another – Napoleon’s – doomed invasion of Russia: War and Peace (1869).' (Introduction)
1 The Place of Poetry and the Poetry of Place James Antoniou , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2 August 2019;

— Review of Empirical Lisa Gorton , 2019 selected work poetry ; Numb and Number David Musgrave , 2019 selected work poetry
1 Heart and the Art of Laughter James Antoniou , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 30 November 2019; (p. 22)

— Review of Mirka Mora : A Life Making Art Sabine Cotte , 2019 single work biography

'John Brack’s famous 1955 painting, Collins St, 5pm, reminds us that Australian life in the 1950s could be dull. Really dull. Brack’s lugubrious grey commuters march down a grey Collins Street, committed to a life of slavish uniformity. But many of his ­contemporaries took a different approach. They embraced ­colour, and excelled at it — from the violent colours of Arthur Boyd to the intricate, subtler pigments of Fred Williams, through art the colour and vividness of the Australian landscape could drip into its cities. And Mirka Mora, the Melbourne painter and local celebrity who died last year aged 90, has to be one of the most colourful of all.' (Introduction)

1 The Last Bulwark James Antoniou , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 416 2019; (p. 20)

— Review of On Drugs Chris Fleming , 2019 single work autobiography

'Literature inspired by drugs tends to swing between extremes. On the one hand, drugs are the very doors of perception, gateways to Xanadu; on the other they are a source of grim addictions, lotus plants that tempt one into indefinite living sleep. In recent decades there have been the highs of William S. Burroughs, Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson and Irvine Welsh, but rarer are those memoirists with experiences of addiction and philosophy who can reflect on the subject in the tradition of Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). Well, cue Chris Fleming’s On Drugs.'(Introduction)

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