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Issue Details: First known date: 2024... 24 June 2024 of The Conversation est. 2011 The Conversation
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A Tragic Television Star, the Brain of a Genius, and a Prize-winning Pig – 3 New Books Are Brilliant Examples of Contemporary Australian Poetry, Sam Ryan , single work review
— Review of Television Kate Middleton , 2024 selected work poetry ; Einstein’s Brain Mark O'Flynn , 2022 selected work poetry ; Fat Chance : Journalism Poems Kent MacCarter , 2024 selected work poetry ;

'All art comes from some abstraction of reality. What is written on the page or painted on the canvas is the artist’s representation of something real. Through that representation, the real becomes abstracted and is transformed into art.' 
A Wealthy Housewife Longs to Go Wild, in a Brilliant Riff on Virginia Woolf, Deborah Pike , single work review
— Review of Thunderhead Miranda Darling , 2024 single work novel ;

'A storm is brewing, both literal and metaphoric, in “the suburbs of the east”. In a burst of poetic and darkly humorous prose, Miranda Darling’s Thunderhead unleashes the turbulent interior life of its protagonist, Winona Dalloway, onto the page.'
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