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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... March 2023 of Sydney Review of Books est. 2013 Sydney Review of Books
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* Contents derived from the 2023 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
‘I Think I Know That Smile’, John Kinsella , single work review
— Review of Mirabilia Lisa Gorton , 2022 selected work poetry ;

'If extraordinary things (‘mirabilia’) attract our attention and interest us, it seems inevitable that our perceptions will either occlude or indulge complexities that aren’t obvious, that are correlatives of loss or damage. And part of the poet’s task is to illuminate and possibly contest these subtextual correlatives. In Lisa Gorton’s new collection of poetry, Mirabilia, this is certainly the case — in fact, it is a book of contesting ways of seeing and manners around expression. Visual art can be extraordinary, but its making can so easily have hidden negative consequences. Poetry can give with one line and take with the next. Gorton has worked to create a poetry that critiques its own presence as art, that asks difficult questions about its processes, and analyses the way language has been used to arrive at ‘the poem’. ' (Introduction)

Weird Unemployment, Unusual Work, Louis Klee , single work essay
Epigraph: 

i just want plumbing, art

Gareth Morgan, ‘the national debt’.

I hate work so / That I have found a way

Lesbia Harford, ‘I hate work so’.

Acts of Living, Jocelyn Hungerford , single work review
— Review of Diagnosis Normal : A Memoir of Unspeakable Things Emma Jane , 2022 single work autobiography ;
Against Lifestyle, Michael Sun , single work review
— Review of Shirley Ronnie Scott , 2023 single work novel ;

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