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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Fire Flood Plague : Australian Writers Respond to 2020
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'Leading Australian writers respond to the challenges of 2020, to create a vital cultural record of these extraordinary times.

'Writers, scientists, historians, journalists and commentators consider subjects as broad as culture and the arts, working as a doctor, travel, domestic violence, security, immigration, the death of a loved one, geopolitics, distance and zoom to ensure we never forget the experience of this pile-on of a year.

'Including original pieces from Lenore Taylor, Nyadol Nuon, Christos Tsiolkas, Melissa Lucashenko, Billy Griffiths, Jess Hill, Kim Scott, Brenda Walker, Jane Rawson, Omar Sakr, Richard McGregor, Jennifer Mills, Gabrielle Chan, John Birmingham, Tim Flannery, Rebecca Giggs, Kate Cole-Adams, George Megalogenis, James Bradley, Alison Croggan, Melanie Cheng, Kirsten Tranter, Tom Griffiths, Joelle Gergis and Delia Falconer.' (Publication summary)

Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,:Vintage Australia , 2020 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
This Place of Sickness, Billy Griffiths , single work essay
The Year of Lethal Wonders, John Birmingham , single work essay
Black Flowers, Kirsten Tranter , single work essay
Living in the Time of Coronavirus, Delia Falconer , single work essay
Flames, Alison Croggon , single work essay
The Great Unravelling, Joëlle Gergis , single work essay
Drawing Breath, Tom Griffiths , single work essay
Dead Water, Sophie Cunningham , single work essay
A Matter of Urgency, Tim Flannery , single work essay
Don't Blink, Jane Rawson , single work essay
Our Daily Bread, Gabrielle Chan , single work essay
Falling, James Bradley , single work essay
Call and Response, Christos Tsiolkas , single work essay
Friday the Thirteenth, Melanie Cheng , single work essay
The Music of the Virus : Sadness, Relief and Communal Consolation, Brenda Walker , single work essay

'We have a sense of what it means to live in disturbing times, to live under threat. We should not forget the many people who have known this all their lives.'

Waiting for a Friend, Kate Cole-Adams , single work essay
Too Deadly, Melissa Lucashenko , single work essay
Trouble Breathing, Jennifer Mills , single work essay
A Long Shadow, George Megalogenis , single work essay
The Ghost in the Machine, Jess Hill , single work essay

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

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Works about this Work

Book Review : Fire Flood Plague by Sophie Cunningham James Arbuthnott , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , April 2021;

— Review of Fire Flood Plague : Australian Writers Respond to 2020 2020 anthology essay

'While we struggle with COVID and global warming narratives, Fire Flood Plague offers news perspectives on what has happened to the world around us.'

Before the Rainstorm Jessica White , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , March 2021;

— Review of Fire Flood Plague : Australian Writers Respond to 2020 2020 anthology essay

'On the second day of 2020, my partner and I caught a train through the suburbs of Munich  to Dachau, then a bus to the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site. It was bitterly cold, the morning air nipping our cheeks. Frost crunched beneath our feet and weak sunlight drifted through clouds. At the site, we passed beneath the grim words ‘Arbeit macht frei’, soldered onto the entrance gates (as they also were in Auschwitz and other concentration camps). We moved slowly through the rectangular buildings, reading squares of information about the inhumane treatment of the prisoners. By the time we emerged from the last building, we were weighed down with horror.' (Introduction)

Once, Twice, Thrice : A Year of Lamentation Adele Dumont , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January–February no. 428 2021; (p. 60)

— Review of Fire Flood Plague : Australian Writers Respond to 2020 2020 anthology essay
Once, Twice, Thrice : A Year of Lamentation Adele Dumont , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January–February no. 428 2021; (p. 60)

— Review of Fire Flood Plague : Australian Writers Respond to 2020 2020 anthology essay
Before the Rainstorm Jessica White , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , March 2021;

— Review of Fire Flood Plague : Australian Writers Respond to 2020 2020 anthology essay

'On the second day of 2020, my partner and I caught a train through the suburbs of Munich  to Dachau, then a bus to the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site. It was bitterly cold, the morning air nipping our cheeks. Frost crunched beneath our feet and weak sunlight drifted through clouds. At the site, we passed beneath the grim words ‘Arbeit macht frei’, soldered onto the entrance gates (as they also were in Auschwitz and other concentration camps). We moved slowly through the rectangular buildings, reading squares of information about the inhumane treatment of the prisoners. By the time we emerged from the last building, we were weighed down with horror.' (Introduction)

Book Review : Fire Flood Plague by Sophie Cunningham James Arbuthnott , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , April 2021;

— Review of Fire Flood Plague : Australian Writers Respond to 2020 2020 anthology essay

'While we struggle with COVID and global warming narratives, Fire Flood Plague offers news perspectives on what has happened to the world around us.'

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