Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 The Lunatic, the Lover and the Poet
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'Establishing the New South Wales Writers’ Centre in a former mental hospital building predictably caused much comment. The popular feeling is that writers are likely to be somewhat mad anyway, and certainly could well be locked behind the walls of an asylum for the good of the community. As long as writers continue to make the community anxious, as long as they continue to ask the forbidden questions and to raise the difficult issues, they will always provoke this response.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Wild about Books : Essays on Books and Writing Michael Wilding , Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2019 17393108 2019 selected work essay

    'Wild About Books – essays on books and writing, about reading them and writing them, and publishing them and collecting them and preserving them in libraries. Essays about the shared experience of literature, the art and craft of writing, the pleasures of reading, the survival of five hundred years of print culture, together with reflections and suggestions on creative writing, on what to do, and how to do it, and on what I’ve done, and why I wrote this book and how I wrote that one, together with anecdotes from other writers’ experiences, from writers in person, and from the books they have written.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

    Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2019
    pg. 15-17
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