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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... no. 424 September 2020 of Australian Book Review est. 1961 Australian Book Review
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* Contents derived from the , 2020 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Precious Details : The Author as Adaptable Observer, Laura Woollett , single work review
— Review of The Details Tegan Bennett Daylight , 2020 single work autobiography ;

'When William Blake wrote of seeing ‘a World in a Grain of Sand’, he meant the details: their ability to evoke entire universes. So did Aldous Huxley when, experimenting with mescaline, he discovered ‘the miracle … of naked existence’ in a vase of flowers. More recently, Jenny Odell’s bestseller How To Do Nothing: Resisting the attention economy (2019) made a case for rejecting productivity in favour of active attention to the world around us.' (Introduction)

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Sonnet for Dr Michael Kennedyi"Good doctors and good poets", Bruce Beaver , single work poetry
Note: ABR's thanks and acknowledgement to healthcare workers around the world.
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